Sentence examples for less boastful from inspiring English sources

But these days Filipinos are less boastful.

Unlike Juicy, however, Sky's the Limit is less boastful than inspirational.

The prime minister put himself on the side of the victims of the crash and tried to sound less boastful about the Tories' achievements on the economy.

Funny, self-deprecating and a whole lot less boastful than he could be, Mr. Stewart offers a string of Grade-A rock 'n' roll debauchery stories and somehow makes them charming.

Although such passages are less boastful than self-mocking, Mr. Swofford's litany of sexual conquests make the same obvious point over and over again: that he had difficulties with commitment and fidelity, a problem that he apparently shared with his father, John Howard Swofford, who, the author says, was always trying to regale him with stories about his womanizing.

I think it's because these three songs are less bellicose, less boastful, and more insistent that the defining qualities of America are national beauty and brotherhood, liberty and freedom, and equality of access for all, rather than of bellicosity and boastfulness about being uniquely blessed and favored by God.

But that has been less true in recent days, following various boastful statements that his campaign has made on and off the record.

The joke was obvious and boastful; by then "The Boondocks" was appearing more or less daily in some two hundred and thirty newspapers (it is now in three hundred), including the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, and the Chicago Tribune.

And instead of the boastful vow to destroy Hizbullah, Israel now sets a far less ambitious definition of victory: reducing rocket fire from Gaza and "changing the reality .In this section Where will it end?

Mr. Cole had an upbeat, boastful hit single, "Work Out," that still felt like something less than the double-platinum success it was, especially as it was inconsistent with most of the music he'd released on mixtapes till that point, which had been thoughtful and verbose and a bit of a downer.

She stopped travelling with him because, for the last 20 years of her life, he shared his favours with a far more sophisticated and no less compliant Argentinian mistress who crisscrossed the globe at his side, providing services, principally boastful, energetic and violent sex, outside the scope of his mute, sad, stay-at-home wife.