Sentence examples for modest glory from inspiring English sources

And the modest glory he has achieved as a lawmaker appears to be rapidly eroding.

The new buildings are equal players in this "residential campus," as Ferris calls it, yet they never upstage the house itself, which sits on its rolling, wooded site, returned to all its modest glory.

Third, Indians are admirably comfortable with eccentricity: if you don't bat an eyelid at a religious sect that walks about naked, or accept that your neighbour meditates for much of his life, you won't carp about a single-minded record-seeker either.A last, related, explanation is that individuals use records as a path to modest glory and income.

But the idea of Al being a model for any of those characters is nonsense.' 'He said it was partly Al Gore and partly you.' 'I don't know what he said.' 'So you didn't recognise yourself in it?' 'No.' Jones's part in Love Story led to the modest glory of a regular daytime soap.

"Secret Society," which opens today in New York, is the latest in an apparently endless series of British comedies in which an unlikely competitive activity becomes a way for hard-pressed ordinary folk to overcome adversity, gain self-esteem and find a moment of modest glory.

Here are the two new shooters in their modest glory.

"But all creatures — even pests — have their modest glories," he said.

"Year of the Dog" limns less dangerous territory, but one of its modest glories is that here too Mr. White takes some appreciable chances with our sympathies, notably through a leading character who has more in common with Buck than might at first appear.

Young, ambitious accountants who toil away at a Big Four firm may have modest expectations of glory, but they'll be millionaires if they make partner.

All Rovers fans know why a fanzine is called TheSecond of May: it recalls a spring night in 1990 when Rovers secured promotion with a 3-0 drubbing of the other lot.Local triumphs and disasters matter more when your glories are modest.

It has been said before: no one goes into teaching for the money, and any glory is mighty modest.