Sentence examples for modest but complicated from inspiring English sources

From a modest but complicated task came a dramatic innovation.

We did it because we had to clarify our modest but moderately complicated wills.

THE ECONOMIST: But complicated.

Very real, but complicated.

Some are modest, all are complicated, but in toto they provide a range of cushy benefits — fast write-offs for upfront drilling expenses, generous depletion allowances, and the like — that are available at virtually every stage of the exploration and production process.

Yet she never finished high school, and her modest output and complicated relationship with her own past have generated a mixed legacy.

But needlessly complicated.

Modest, but real.

His ego is modest but not fragile.

He is modest, but not shy.

Modest, but true.