Sentence examples for modest English from inspiring English sources

When he languidly said, "I know everything about fashion," my modest English soul was shocked at his boldness.

So many new titles are emerging across the English-speaking world that even the distinguished but reclusive new Nobel laureate Elfriede Jelinek has a only modest English readership.

Curtis recalled a conversation with his wife-to-be, Candace, on the eve of the final round as they lay in bed in their modest English cottage (the Curtises have upgraded this year).

Skempton's modest English brevity might be worlds apart from Tarkovsky's epic Russian grandeur, but both are searching, through stillness, for what the film-maker described as a "special intensity of attention" from their audience.

Akira Kurosawa, one of hundreds of sharply observed portraits in this book, made two of his best films in his 80s, so there is no reason why this modest English maverick shouldn't keep astonishing audiences with his outsized gifts and more often than not pulling it off.

There is something weird about Cassie's beauty, however: her hair is too uniformly yellow and ultimately does not belong on a purportedly modest English girl, and her face seems artificially stilled, as if by Botox, or, more precisely, Restylane, which is used to fill in wrinkles and acne scars.

They now live in a relatively modest English-style 1920's brick house in Palo Alto where Mr. Jobs tore down a one-story bungalow on an adjoining lot in 1998 to plant a fruit orchard for privacy.

For ages I've had my own shorthand for that kind of modest conscientious English un-bling; I've called it "Clarks-y", after C&J Clark, the privately owned Somerset shoe business, founded by Quakers in 1825.

Surrounding this business district are modest-size English cottages and Craftsman bungalows, geared to the same period look.

"The modest charms of English scenery" [art original] / D.E.

A lot of people probably like the idea of John Terry: talented, modest, fearless, gifted, English.