Sentence examples for modest and even from inspiring English sources

Mary could be loyal, generous, modest and even humble.

The spending that the president outlined was modest, and even more modest than he and his aides had initially made it sound.

By temperament modest and even self-deprecating, Collins enjoyed his new-found acclaim, but he did not allow it to turn his head.

Though a genuinely modest and even hesitant surveyor of place and practice, he insists on the significance of the venture he has undertaken.

Fashion is undergoing a modest, and even sensible, moment in line with an all-round less ostentatious mood, and admitting to one's wealth – what wealth there is left – is deemed unseemly.

Lincoln's great antislavery speech, his Cooper Union address of 1860 the speech that "made him president"—begins with a modest and even tedious invocation of the acts of the 39 signers of the Constitution: had they voted on national questions regarding the extensions of slavery?

These computers, endowed with modest microprocessors and even more modest memory and onboard storage, are aimed squarely at getting consumers cheaply, quickly and almost effortlessly onto the Internet.

His Burns report had modest aims and even they were rejected by the FA's reactionary grass roots.

They are mostly people of modest means, and even many with insurance have steep out-of-pocket expenses for medicine.

Only a handful of cases were brought each year against companies, almost always ending in settlements involving a modest fine, and even fewer involved individuals.

She was pleased, if surprised, when her tales of chaos and calamity from London classrooms acquired a modest following – and even more so when a publisher from Penguin suggested she turn the blog into a book.