Sentence examples for modest and straightforward from inspiring English sources
"Where she had expected a curious fish she found a sincere, unassuming man, modest and straightforward," writes Pinter.
Modest and straightforward, more interested in her patients and in liver disease than in her many honours, Sherlock was, nevertheless, proud of her honorary degrees, of her DBE (1978) and of her election as a fellow of the Royal Society in 2001.
Some were modest and straightforward.
If your means are modest and your needs straightforward, it might not be necessary to pay anyone at all.
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Be upright, modest, straightforward and cooperative.
The idyllic nature of the modest pleasures he celebrates, however, cannot dispel his honest and straightforward brooding over fundamental metaphysical questions.
Dürer presents his father more like a low-ranking ecclesiastic than a tradesman: a calm, considerate and straightforward man dressed up in his best, albeit modest, clothes.
There, nice and straightforward.
He seemed engaging and straightforward.
