Sentence examples for modest comparisons from inspiring English sources

(Syme, given to more modest comparisons, finds one of his violet hues in a flesh-fly egg).

Writing novels bears some modest (very modest) comparison to grinding on the higher slopes of the P.G.A. tour, magical afternoons bunkered by afternoons of routine or appalling play and reminding yourself every minute to trust your swing.

Although the number of markers shared between this study and that of Timusk et al. (2011) was relatively modest, comparison between the two maps was possible.

The Millennium Development Goals look modest by comparison.

Eintracht Frankfurt were bound to appear modest by comparison.

Both works seem modest by comparison with his latest stunt.

Academic inflation makes most other kinds look modest by comparison.

They seem modest in comparison to what is coming.

To outsiders, the proposed law seems absurdly modest in comparison with the battle surrounding it.

On the Republican side, Mr. McCain's fund-raising is modest by comparison.

He said the effect of warming on reducing excess winter deaths was modest by comparison.