Sentence examples for modest dreams from inspiring English sources
He has earned millions of dollars playing baseball, but still followed the modest dreams of so many of his fellow Brooklyn natives; he moved to Staten Island.
A thirty-three-year-old man named Michael Schwartz told of his mentally disabled brother and the family's modest dreams of being able to send him to summer camp for a week and find a decent group home for him.
In deciding to marry, they embrace their audience's fantasies and realities at the same time; they sprinkle some of their magic on everyday people's modest dreams and practical struggles while also conveying the sense of being, indeed, just like them.
At the end of the movie, Tommy delivers a moral message that rings like a Christian sermon, which builds the entire action back to modest dreams and humble pleasures, pointing it away from the exotic powers behind the scenes and toward the day-to-day dedication of the visible, front-line forces of order.
But even the most modest dreams of middle-class life seem so far from reach.
But Linda Sexton seems utterly marooned when her modest dream of "normal" family life evaporates and her writing career stalls.
Part of Dead Body Guy's appeal is that he is a regular guy with a modest dream.
But their modest dream evaporated with the terms of the loan offered by their bank: 55percentt down and 23percentt interest.
Punt, pass and kick competition, that modest dream of thousands of youngsters in the N.F.L.'s go-go years, is returning after a five-year layoff.
"And so the new dreams of Zion — socialist perfection, the wholeness of the land, even the seemingly modest dream of normalizing the Jews as a nation among nations — had each successively faltered.
