Sentence examples for measure of modesty from inspiring English sources

It's a fine moment for Mr. Alexander, who delivers the line with a measure of modesty and a measure of understandable irritation.

Obama has reached back to the earlier traditions of his Democratic predecessors for inspiration, borrowing a measure of modesty from Carter and a measure of multilateralism from Clinton.

And it's a measure of Joseph's modesty, and of letting the work speak for itself, that there's very little biographical information about him out there.

Each is lighthearted with equal measures of brilliance and modesty.

Postpartum depression takes a murderous turn in this slight exercise, which, for all its modesty, generates a measure of dread.

Lanchester gives himself only four out of 10 for tube geekiness, which is either a gesture of extreme modesty or a measure of just how obsessively some folks out there will delve into the inner workings of the underground.

But it could be said, in a paraphrase of Newton's famous expression of modesty, that the giants on whose shoulders he stood in this endeavor did not measure up to his antecedents in physics and astronomy.

Do not waste time because of modesty.