Sentence examples for modest comment from inspiring English sources

The Mark XI seemed to preen itself a little, and we half expected the visible knob of brains atop it to type out some politely modest comment.

"The Mississippi legislature has been meeting since the first Tuesday in January, and they have yet to get around to anything besides ways of strengthening every form of segregation," he said, and, permitting himself the luxury of a modest comment, added, "After they get that taken care of, they'll probably take a couple of weeks to settle the minor affairs of state business".

It means that we will call out the climate denial of our rivals, not as some peripheral and modest comment but a fundamental flaw that should disqualify candidates from public office.

I know some recipients of knighthoods who dismiss them with amusement and mock-modest comments of the type: "It doesn't mean much to me but it's such a thrill for Lady [insert name of wife]." But the effect is much more serious.

Swift, it seemed, was too modest to comment herself, though the donation was confirmed by multiple outlets.

In a more modest, short comment, The Economist agrees.

In its modest fashion, Film Comment Selects helps offset the calamitous state of foreign-language film distribution by highlighting work that hasn't (yet) inspired the love and guts it takes to put a subtitled movie in American theaters.

In communicating modest findings or commenting on developments in their field, some experts become enthusiastic, if not zealous.

Lynn Nadel, Tucson, Ariz.: With a few modest changes, your comments about the lack of legitimacy of the Hamas government could apply to the Bush administration, too, which has arbitrarily rejected the international agreements of its predecessors, and acted in ways that are profoundly antidemocratic within the U.S. as well as externally.

Two additional key issues regarding the U.S. EPA's interpretation (U.S. EPA 2011d) of the cancer epidemiologic evidence for kidney cancer, NHL, and liver cancer have been raised in peer review and public comments: the modest magnitude of the RRm estimates for the three cancer types, and the role of meta-analysis within a causality determination.

The owner gives the teachers bonuses for the parents' comments, a modest $5 cash bonus for every emailed compliment received.