Sentence examples for modest fellow from inspiring English sources
According to The Observer's film critic Philip French, Nichols is 'charming, an amazingly modest fellow'.
The top seed and three-times Wimbledon champion is an engagingly modest fellow, but even he described it as "an incredible performance".
Smith is a modest fellow for a professional politician, a person of neat and orderly habits, and his aspiration for the parliamentary new session was both modest, and revolutionary in context.
Mastroianni is wonderful as a modest fellow who pushes beyond his limits; he externalizes every bit of the character's doting alertness and jealousy, especially in a funny, nerve-racking scene in which he draws his date's attention away from a wiry rock-and-roller by doing his own slapstick jitterbug.
His successor, Smenkhkare, wasted little time in shifting the royal court back to Thebes.Though he is a much more modest fellow than the pharaohs, South Korea's President Roh Moo-hyun made the relocation of the country's capital from Seoul a key pledge in his 2002 election campaign.
A modest fellow who normally declines to talk to reporters about himself or his writing, he made an exception for an oral history project about The Arkansas Gazette, a newspaper for which he worked after he had served as a Marine during the Korean War and before he went off to New York to make his fortune.
"He was a modest little fellow, but had a peppery temper and could say some cutting things when anyone displeased him," Senator Bernard F. Martin said a few days after Hall's death.
His Spinoza is perky and adorable, a brash but modest young fellow whose head is amusingly stuffed not with baseball statistics but with incisive conclusions about God, nature and the universe.
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.
Yet, the man himself was the opposite of all that--a modest, retiring fellow of deep sensitivity, capable of unflinching commitment to his personal beliefs.
Most people knew him as a modest, funny, social fellow.
