Sentence examples for modest a man from inspiring English sources

Mr. Apted is so modest a man -- and so entirely willing to be caught up with James Bond, too, who never grows up -- that it's easy to miss his achievement, the doggedness and the rare gift he has allowed us all: of being distant or fleeting relatives to his people.

He is as timid and modest a man as you're likely to meet, and insists he was "terrified" by film directing, and hoped only that "the people who had very kindly paid for it weren't disappointed and the people in it didn't feel ashamed".

As Senator Barack Obama campaigned for the Presidency in a neighborhood of modest homes, a man named Samuel J. Joee) Wurzelbacher approached.

The fact Armstrong seemed to fluff his lines, omitting the vital, modest "a" before "man", did not matter a jot.

"Francis Scott Key was a modest man, a church man, and so he wasn't looking to gain fame when he wrote this.

He is, to a fault, a modest man.

Like Mr. Buffett, Mr. Singleton was a modest man with a rare sense of rationality.

As such, this is in keeping with the spirit of Gustav Holst, a modest man with a mighty talent.

He was quiet and gentle, and was "a modest man, with a self-deprecating sense of humour".

A great director, a forthright artist, a modest man.

Last week, a modest man returned home a day early after a work trip abroad.