Sentence examples for modest and direct from inspiring English sources

The compositions and arrangements were as modest and direct as her voice.

The members have the curiosity of Radiohead, but they relate it in a more modest and direct way; they are unworried about playing straight-ahead rock when it seems suitable.

While most players put up with it gracefully, Clijsters is that rare athlete who genuinely seems to want to connect with whoever is speaking with her, who's modest and direct and thoughtful, and who in person projects the same warmth and enthusiasm she displays on court, which is not always the case with players whose public image is sunny.

Again, this latter effect was modest and the direct effect of CSR on positive experience remained significant (direct effect =.1009, 95% CI .0587,.1430).

Again this serial indirect effect was modest and the direct effect of relationality on positive experience remained significant (direct effect =.0984, 95% CI .0528,.1441).

However, the effects were modest and limited by direct cytotoxicity of these agents.

The economic analysis showed that the costs of the intervention programme were modest and comparable to the direct health care costs.

These figures highlight the importance of increased mortality in the relationship between sepsis and inpatient admissions, and the modest direct association that remained after controlling for utilization related to death.

However, in my opinion, there is still a very modest direct and experimental evidence of the difference between overlapping and unique lincRNAs.

He is frequently described as a modest and respectful athlete, standing in direct contrast with previous world-class US sprinters.

The same year she was leading lady to the comedian Richard Hayward in her first film, Irish and Proud of It (1936), a modest comedy co-written and directed by Donovan Pedelty (later to become editor of the popular film magazine, Picturegoer) and she had an unbilled role as a dancer in As You Like It (1936), one of Laurence Olivier's early films.