Sentence examples for modest and ready from inspiring English sources
"Before February, most Bulgarians thought Plevneliev was a boutique president, a man from the business, modest and ready to compromise," said Victor Bachev, a TV producer and fervent protester.
He has arrived at Playland via bands including the Pretenders, the The, a partnership with New Order's Bernard Sumner called Electronic, the American indie-rock collective Modest Mouse, and the rough and ready British trio the Cribs.
The paper judged "the dresses to be modest and elegant, but criticized the Polish ready-to-wear industry for producing them only in gigantic sizes".
Lewis was astoundingly modest and unpompous for a successful philosopher, always ready to respond to criticism, and unfailingly generous to students.
He had just dunked in a Jewish ritual bath built beneath a modest house, and was ready for a visit to the grave of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the seventh grand rebbe of the Lubavitcher group of Hasidic Jews.
He is modest and circumspect.
"He was modest and dignified.
He is modest and soft-spoken.
Nikiya (J'aime Crandall) is modest and tragic.
