Sentence examples for modest and it from inspiring English sources

Its span may be global, but its scope is modest, and it accepts a certain superficiality as the price of useful insight.

Its aims are modest and it stakes out well-known ground, but it is the album I listened to more than any other in 2004.

Its ambitions are modest, and it doesn't pursue them with excessive zeal, which may be why, improbably, it feels like a winner.

The film was funny and modest, and it treated the putative perversions of its characters with the kind of good, gracious humor that insists on respect for everyone involved.

Its gain in trade-weighted terms has been more modest, and it remains the most undervalued rich-country currency, according to both The Economist's Big Mac index and more sophisticated gauges.

The nation's current-account balance is modest, and it enjoys high household and corporate savings.

The greater it is, the more modest and resigned it is, too, because such understanding is part of the very being".

So he financed his fourth album, "White Ladder" (ATO/BMG), himself, recording it in a small studio with modest equipment, and it became a multimillion seller across Europe and then in the United States.

It was modest and soulful, and it swung, in a laid-back fashion.

It finds that for most women the risk is modest, and that it is outweighed by the benefit from the treatment, which can halve the recurrence rate and lower the death rate from breast cancer by about one-sixth.

I begin by asking them to do something quite modest, and if it's good I go along with them.