If so Mallory must have been the most modest, polite, considerate fellow to tackle the world's highest peak.
By nice, I mean friendly; modest, warm, considerate, and even-tempered — qualities that we do not usually associate with artistic ego, and which might seem antithetical to the disturbing and phenomenally influential work that this artist has produced over the last twenty-three years.
In a letter to his sons, Einstein described his impression of the Japanese as being modest, intelligent, considerate, and having a true feel for art.
David Brooks calls Representative Tom DeLay "modest, decent and considerate".
Nicolas Derouet, her agent, who is here with his young daughter Judith, is modest, helpful and considerate – adjectives which, in his profession, are not used every day.
Despite their claim to musical majesty — and the imposing grandeur of other tombs — the couple's mausoleum is not only modest, but designed to be considerate of others.
Be kind, polite, and considerate to everyone, don't rudely ignore others, and remain humble and modest.
Another may be more expert in casting his opponent; but he is not more social, nor more modest, nor better disciplined to meet all that happens, nor more considerate with respect to the faults of his neighbours.
Dürer presents his father more like a low-ranking ecclesiastic than a tradesman: a calm, considerate and straightforward man dressed up in his best, albeit modest, clothes.
