Sentence examples for modest consolation from inspiring English sources
One modest consolation for Mrs. King and Mr. Foxx was that they did not learn of the crime from a bank's foreclosure letter.
One modest consolation came from an Edgemont parent who said she thought her team would beat us by a far larger margin.
For some, hosting a somewhat anachronistic event like the Expo may seem a modest consolation prize compared with the glitter of the Olympics, but that does not mean that Shanghai is approaching things with anything less than the utmost seriousness.
Gordon Brown may have been black-balled for the top job at the International Monetary Fund by the prime minister, but he has won a modest consolation prize in the form of a new post at the World Economic Forum.
That his rocket fizzled over the Pacific seemed to offer only modest consolation, at a time when the nuclear smuggler A. Q. Khan is running his own Web site from Pakistan, and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, in Iran, is ramping up a reëlection campaign steeped in nuclear nationalism.
There is one small consolation.
In several of these narratives, the middle-aged come to acknowledge the comfort and consolation of lowering their expectations, resigning themselves to the heartbreakingly modest portion of contentment they have been allotted.
The only consolation is that the charges central banks levy on reserves are still relatively modest: by one estimate, Denmark's negative rates, which were first imposed in 2012, have cost banks just 0.005% of their assets.Lump it or leave itIndeed, the biggest effect of negative interest rates may be on currencies.
