Sentence examples for like a modest from inspiring English sources

"It is gift-wrapped to look like a modest proposal.

"From the beginning I conceived of this production like a modest independent film," Mr. Greif said.

Alef's editor, Seyyed Amir Sayyah, seemed like a modest and courteous man.

With a century's hindsight, Mr. Blériot's hop across the Channel may seem like a modest achievement.

That seems like a modest basis for approval pending completion of additional clinical trials.

As a result, this gig feels like a modest victory lap.

Depending on your view of the human heart, this may seem like a modest request, or cause for despair.

She looks like a modest Zsa Zsa Gabor, yet she didn't have to marry a Hilton hotelier.

Nevertheless I found myself reading, and enjoying, Blood Brotherhood as an ironic provocation, like Jonathan Swift's A Modest Proposal, regardless of Donovan's intent.

On the second floor of what seems like a modest-size cigar store at 42nd Street is a refuge vast in spirit for cigar smokers, an area that welcomes them (and Nat Sherman cigar buyers).

But Forks would dearly like to acquire a modest share of Seattle's genius for spinning money in cyberspace.