Sentence examples for it seemed modest from inspiring English sources

It was extravagant, but it seemed modest compared to what some of our neighbors were doing.

This "rapid posthumous invasion of [Cheever's] privacy", as John Updike deemed it, seemed modest in the face of the relentless, remorse-filled exposure of the Journals.

Mr. Glass's Symphony No. 3 was written for a small string orchestra, and if it seems modest beside his expansive Fifth, Sixth and Eighth, its ear-catching effects (including his rapid-fire update of the 18th century's "Mannheim rocket" in the finale) and flirtations with Middle Eastern modes work their charms.

It seems modest, but it's all-important.

It seems modest rather than merely anodyne, crisply practical rather than merely boring.

"If you are comparing it to 10 years ago in health care, it seems modest," said Helen B. Darling, chief executive of the National Business Group on Health, which represents large employers.

Rather, the president and his men seem to be taking the high level of public support they now enjoy as a mandate for continuing with the foreign policy they had embarked upon anyway.Shifts in the subsoilIn short, if you look at the immediate impact on America's current agenda, it seems modest.

While the government said Golden State was motivated by the profits to be made from moving illegal immigrants, the only figures it gave on those profits seemed modest.

The goal seemed modest enough, and so were the results.

The promises themselves seemed modest and lacking innovation.

Even the red-carpet parades of strapless gowns have seemed modest rather than thrusting.