Sentence examples for i was modest from inspiring English sources

I was modest enough not to attribute the event to my own irresistible personal attraction, and I felt that I had now grasped the nature of the mysterious element that was at work behind hypnotism.

"I haven't changed, I'm modest and accessible".

"I don't want to sound like I'm pretending that I'm modest, but I don't really consider myself a star, or something like that".

So I may be self-confident but I'm modest enough to know what I don't know".

I'm modest but proud that I was part of that iconic scene, and the film itself.

Complimented on his modesty, he said simply, "I am modest," but that reticence should not be mistaken for lack of assertiveness.

DS: I don't think I'm modest so much as I'm realistic.

At one point, Friedkin provocatively asked, "Do you think this is a work of art?" Hooper first asked, "Should I be modest?" before responding with a salty confirmation, "It's a... work of art".

When you hold your legs close together, you are saying, "I am modest".

The level of genetic differentiation between indica and Or-I was modest (Fst = 0.17), and that is 0.36 in japonica.

At that lunch meeting I was humble, but I sure as hell was not modest.