"modest acceptance" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to a humble or low-key attitude towards accepting something. Example: Despite her significant accomplishments, the award winner showed a modest acceptance of the recognition, thanking her team and downplaying her own contributions.
He followed his charmingly modest acceptance speech with the briefest of encores – In Memory of a Pure Soul: Klara Schiff in Memoriam, the piece for right hand alone that his teacher György Kurtág composed as a tribute to his mother.
Third, in the US study, renewable energies attract only modest acceptance, while in Germany, renewables are the only electricity-generating technologies clearly preferred by most participants.
If worn, certain models of hip protectors are highly effective at preventing hip fractures from falls in residents of long-term care, but modest acceptance and adherence have limited the effectiveness of hip protectors.
The short film pushes a more modest acceptance of menstruation.
That's why the ending regarding the humble acceptance of modest circumstances comes off as something of a cheat.
That's why the ending — regarding the humble acceptance of modest circumstances — comes off as something of a cheat.
While the real Stephen Colbert was gracious and modest in his acceptance speech at the Nokia Theatre, Stephen Colbert the character seized the opportunity to gloat in his first night back on the air Tuesday.
This has come about due to factors including acceptance of modest fluxes and a significant drop in energy costs for control fouling.
The authors found that, while the intervention had a significant impact upon knowledge and a reduction in alternative conceptions, there was only a modest improvement in overall evolutionary acceptance levels.
Even with modest numbers of markers, false acceptance of discrete hybrid classes is likely.
Perhaps it was simply the lesson of acceptance — and the possibility of modest self-transformation.
