Sentence examples for modest gentleman from inspiring English sources
This mysterious little play reveals an unassuming, modest gentleman named Serge staging low-tech spectacles in his cluttered basement for an audience that could fit inside a bathroom.
The soloist in this number was Mr. Adlai Stevenson, who delivered quotations from various speeches of the Great Emancipator with simplicity and sincerity, never giving way to any temptation toward elocution, and comporting himself, in general, like a great and modest gentleman.
Cranmer is a modest gentleman's son, a careful and pious academic from the tiny village of Aslockton, near Nottingham.
Schlechter was a modest gentleman, who was generally unlikely to win the major chess tournaments by his peaceful inclination, his lack of aggressiveness and his willingness to accept most draw offers from his opponents (about 80% of his games finished by a draw).
Weir is a modest man, unassuming, a gentleman.
David was a real English gentleman, modest, unassuming and possessing a calmness and patience at times when everyone else was stressed.
In short, Fowler was a modest, disciplined, and punctilious English gentleman.
Aaron is too gracious, too modest and too much of a gentleman to undercut a player like Bonds.
Henman seems to be a gentleman who embodies the modest traditions that theoretically existed -- who can remember?
In contrast to his contemporary Charles Darwin, whose private income allowed him to be a gentleman scientist, Mendel's modest family circumstances meant the church offered the only way to intellectual salvation.
The gentleman, as so often, is too modest.
