Sentence examples for modest exterior from inspiring English sources

He's made repulsive even more by the self-adoring theatricality behind his modest exterior than by his interest in torturing heretics and contemptuous treatment of his wife.

Yasmin Green, who is the principal at Google Ideas, told the audience, "Don't let the modest exterior of Eliot Higgins fool you," and called his research "profound".

Many others, like 22 Cortlandt Street, will require more modest exterior repairs, as well as extensive work to windows, heating or ventilating systems, or other damaged parts.

In public testimony before the landmarks commission, some speakers opposed any changes to the exterior of the society's landmark building at 170 Central Park West, but in April 2007, after rejecting an initial proposal, the commission approved the society's request to conduct a more modest exterior renovation.

Perhaps I'm just falling for a gimmick, but I find something aesthetically pleasing about its modest exterior.

Its modest exterior belies the extent of what is going on inside, but some say this humble factory has fuelled the love affair with ramen noodles that is sweeping the US.

Insanely decorated steakhouses aside, the most interesting places in Bogotá almost all hide behind modest exteriors.

Draw a small exterior mirror.

SET well back from the highway, a nondescript two-lane stretch in exurban Pawling, the Towne Crier has a modest, multihued exterior gussied up with faux-Southwestern frills.

It has a modest, rustic exterior, but closer inspection reveals charming refinements: attractive postage-stamp gardens flanking the entrance and window boxes crowded with cascading blooms.

A modest wooden exterior masks a room with rich Oriental carpets, a gilded chandelier and a dining table that seems to have the proportions of a bowling lane.