"I have seen wives of men with modest salaries, who in Europe would have no servants at all, habitually spending the whole day at bridge and tennis, while leaving the care of their children and even the keys of the storeroom in hands of native servants.
In our study, serum levels of testosterone in men remained fairly stable while there was a linear decline of estradiol levels with advancing age in men with modest magnitude of decrease.
Born in Espoo, Finland, on October 17, 1979, he is an introspective man with seemingly modest tastes.
Soon Mr. Rayman, a soft-spoken man with a modest smile, was experimenting with his own tricks.
But then, Cruz is a man with a modest view of his own historical importance.
How can a man with "a modest naval pension" and an annual stipend from his mother, the Queen, afford a £13m property?
"A modest man with much to be modest about," Winston Churchill said of him once.
Sir Winston Churchill's assessment of Clement Attlee is but one famous example among many: he was, Sir Winston said, "a modest man with much to be modest about".
Political insults are a traditional British sport (Churchill famously described his rival Clement Atlee as a sheep in sheep's clothing, and as a modest man with much to be modest about).
He might be, as Churchill reputedly once said of Attlee, "a modest man with much to be modest about", but that very modesty evidently prevented him seeing himself as someone to whom the rules that govern ordinary people do not apply.
