Sentence examples for kind of modesty from inspiring English sources
"There is a kind of modesty thing," he continued.
You've always had a particular — or, perhaps, peculiar — kind of modesty about your work.
Most of the rock bands presented themselves with that kind of modesty.
In fact, it betrayed a kind of modesty about the intentions of the former NSA analyst.
The tone of the book, though authoritative, is rendered with a kind of modesty that the language of the films refuses.
Diller and Scofidio also exhibited a kind of modesty that, in the current economic climate, Lincoln Center was eager to embrace.
It's a kind of false modesty of the soul.
Like Cornejo, she has impeccable technique, sensitive musicality, and a kind of luminous modesty onstage.
The darkness of Marsh's book isn't a kind of false modesty; his self-abnegation isn't disguised self-regard.
They are the rhetorical equivalents of tugging at the forelock (difficult to imagine in Cheney's case) in a kind of uppity modesty, as it were.
Since one is never outside the conditions of time, the right conclusion to draw, thinks Tolstoy, is a kind of epistemological modesty: we always know far less about the laws of life than we thought we did.
