Sentence examples for modest chore from inspiring English sources
In 1619, as part of the great illumination that inspired Descartes to assume the modest chore of reforming philosophy as well as mathematics, he devised "compasses" made of sticks sliding in grooved frames to duplicate the cube and trisect angles.
The Brooklyn Youth Chorus carried out its modest chores effectively.
As the era of contemporary practical ethics dawned in the early 1970s, it was natural for philosophers and religious moralists to assume that their role in the division of labor within this budding field would call for much more than the modest metaethical chores traditionally allotted to them, such as providing definitions for terms like "right" and "good" (Hare 1952).
Alice, in "Gunsmoke," makes a modest living by doing odd vocal chores for movies -- the sounds of people eating and drowning in "Titanic," for example.
Outside of the unique and downbeat "Video Games", which contrasts a schoolgirl fantasy of glamorous life with a humdrum chore of keeping a boy interested, "Born to Die" only bears modest fruit.
Further, only about half the time I spend in the shop ends up being billable (I have no employees; every little chore falls to me), so it usually works out closer to $20 per hour — a modest but decent wage.
Instead of trying to revolutionize the mundane chore of grocery shopping with a high-tech approach relying on expensive centralized warehouses, Tesco simply added a modest online delivery service to its traditional supermarket operation.
