Sentence examples for modest decent from inspiring English sources

David Brooks calls Representative Tom DeLay "modest, decent and considerate".

But ordinary modest, decent, diffident people change – and not for the better.

Their children — a son, a weapons engineer, and a daughter, a journalist — grew up to be modest, decent people.

He was the best player on the team, and we had to figure how he was such a modest, decent, friendly, dignified guy.

Typically, the Dick Francis hero is a modest, decent fellow, a model of British valor and integrity, who restores order by asserting his superior moral values — and by going mano a mano with a ruthless villain who subjects him to unspeakable torture.

(A joke of the era: "What would happen, if Khrushchev were assassinated instead of Kennedy?…Like hell would Onassis marry Nina Petrovna"). Their children a son, a weapons engineer, and a daughter, a journalist grew up to be modest, decent people.

He is always wise, always modest, always decent.

By all accounts she is a modest and decent person.

The capital markets looking ahead will provide modest but decent returns.

"The goal that we are shooting for is a neighborhood that is modest but decent, where residents are proud to be from that area".

Chor Bizarre's location doesn't hurt: it's in a modest but decent hotel (the Broadway) on the fringe of Old Delhi.