Sentence examples for modest ideal from inspiring English sources

What I really want from a sidewalk is that people see me and let themselves be seen, but even this modest ideal is thwarted by cell-phone users and their unwelcome privacy.

BUYERS looking for a country house in the Hudson Valley or the Catskills in New York State have settled on a more modest ideal: between $200,000 and $250,000 for a home on a few acres, with a picturesque town not too far away.

In the lead up to 2015 Cook and Dickens' "modest ideal" remains far from a reality.

We hope that the post-2015 agenda will be radical enough to satisfy Cook and Dickens's "modest ideal" and unite all communities to fight for women's health rights.

And that, wrote Barthes, in a lovable paraphrase, was his modest, utopian ideal: to write a work in C Major".

Anna is wholesome, hardworking, modest, warm: an ideal of uncorrupted socialist womanhood.

On the other hand, unlike his friend Hamann, Herder is in favor of "systematicity" in a more modest sense: the ideal of a theory which is self-consistent and maximally supported by argument.

So you go out and ask them: "what do you want the candidates to be discussing as they compete for votes in this year's election?" This gets pretty close to what my modest proposal for ideal campaign coverage should be.

"It's a nice, modest piece of equipment, ideal for grilling bruschetta or polenta," Gray says.

In this respect, we consider three different cases, as explained in Subsection 2.1: ideal PA, modest PA nonlinearity with 15 dB back-off, and worst case nonlinearity with 5 dB back-off.

As his later and more fully developed normative theory of democracy based on macrosociological social facts about modern societies shows, Habermas offers a modest and liberal democratic ideal based on the public use of reason within the empirical constraints of modern complexity and differentiation.