Sentence examples for modest description from inspiring English sources

That modest description misses the point.

(His modest description of his tenure as a "whirlwind of accomplishment" was an Olympian piece of overstatement).

Entries can also be edited by friends, so an overly modest description of their part in a project could be expanded by a colleague.

"Probably one of my better ones" was Watson's modest description of the glorious 30-yard goal that vanquished Cardiff City and propelled the holders into the last eight.

Here in the "capital of the world," which is New York's characteristically modest description of itself, people seem to have survived their annual immersion in foreign affairs with but the faintest disruption to their lives.

Though I would not have guessed it from Hayhurst's modest description of his talent, he did go on to play some of 2008 and 2009 in the big leagues, with the San Diego Padres and the Toronto Blue Jays.

It is a modest job description, but for many folk musicians, it is accurate.

That's admittedly too modest a description of Empellón Taqueria, which is to the everyday taco what Parm, in Little Italy, is to the common hoagie: a proudly elevated execution of the form.

The limitations of our study were the retrospective description, the modest number of eyes, and the absence of a control group.

Rorem's scores seem, by comparison, modest and naïve, but this description applies only to their surface, and not to their emotional or psychological import.

Those looking for the essence of the work could do worse than a couple of sentences which feature in Richard's description of his modest art collection: "I also have a Picasso pot which Matthew Freud gave me for my 50th birthday and which I thought was worth tuppence halfpenny.