Sentence examples for modest and sometimes from inspiring English sources

Mr. Herreid's voice is modest and sometimes skirts the edges of intonation.

The beginnings of Early Christian art date to the period when the religion was yet a modest and sometimes persecuted sect, and its flowering was possible only after 313, when the Christian emperor Constantine the Great decreed official toleration of Christianity.

"The energy security, environmental and economic benefits of biofuels production based on agricultural commodity feed stocks are at best modest, and sometimes even negative," says the report, prepared by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.

So what makes so many of us young scientists cautious, restrained, modest, and sometimes downright insecure about our place here?

While strong identification assumptions are used in both these studies, they both find that changes in parental long-run income have only modest and sometimes negligible effects on the human capital of the children3.

It is not surprising that the strength of correlation between PET result and cognitive performance, and/or the magnitude of the difference in cognitive performance between cognitively normal subjects with Aβ-positive and Aβ-negative PET scans, was modest and sometimes variable.

Despite his modest education and sometimes questionable grammar, his personal warmth and colorful references to Brazilian soccer have captivated many.

"You're bound to experience success in its highest form and success in a modest way and sometimes failure".

Cobb has a thoughtful, modest manner, and sometimes speaks so softly that you can barely hear him, but he has great determination — probably an attractive combination for Goldman.

With its worn carpeting, modest furnishings and sometimes transparent back wall, through which a portrait of dear, departed Dad, smiling broadly under a boater, can often be seen, the set designed by Michael Yeargan is transformed easily into the likewise cramped Wingfield quarters.

The relationship between the quick-reaction polls and their eventual effect on the horse-race polls has historically been very modest, and has sometimes even run in the opposite direction of what the initial polls suggested.