Sentence examples for modest character from inspiring English sources

He is "a very modest character" and The Good Book was "very modestly done".

A modest character, he insists he can really only speak one fluently: "English".

"It's always a challenge to take a landscape that has evolved incrementally and a landscape that has a subtle and modest character and to somehow succeed in improving it," Mr. Van Valkenburgh said in an interview.

That Mendelssohn's "Spinning Song," a modest character piece, becomes a virtuoso race course, and the last of Schubert's Opus 90 Impromptus a kind of abstract mechanical drawing, may have to do with pianistic ability out of control.

Bifurcated characters who are unable to voice their desires can be found in most of Mr. Lee's movies, from the modest character studies like "The Wedding Banquet" and "Eat Drink" to his epic-scaled action hit, "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon".

The march will be led by the UK government's Scottish secretary, David Mundell, who welcomed "the recognition of her sacrifice and dedication to the youngsters she worked with", noting that it may be testament to Haining's own modest character that her story has only gradually come to national attention in her home country.

In a career that spanned nearly 60 years and nearly 100 feature films, she generally played modest characters in a rich and textured way.

He builds his modest characters as collections of traits that appear as calculated details drawn from life but serving to do nothing but evoke sighs akin to those yielded by pictures of children and pets.

The restaurant retains much of its modest, crofthouse character, with small rooms, stone walls and low ceilings.

These may be modest in character, like Cady Noland's "The American Trip" (1988), a sculptural installation that somehow evokes a dire moral emergency with steel pipe, American and pirate flags, a blind person's cane, an oven rack, and metal and leather whatnots.

The idea of the cottage was so transformed that by the 1790s the landowner Uvedale Price, a theorist of the picturesque, stipulated that they should never be painted white because then the cottage's "modest retired character is gone, and succeeded by perpetual glare" – not perhaps the most important consideration for the indigenous inhabitants.