Sentence examples for modest image from inspiring English sources

Even as she became more powerful within the neighborhood, Sister Ping cultivated a modest image, avoiding any gaudy trappings of success and working hours that were considered long even in Chinatown.

The subtitle of the nearly 11ft-wide canvas that hangs in the gallery of the Louvre reserved for the greatest French history paintings - those large and weighty accounts of public events, among which this is a rather small and modest image - is very specific.

However, his modest image conceals - his supporters would argue - a steely determination to lead his country.

Other times, the much-needed heart is attempted but not reached, such as Melissa van der Schyff's passionate delivery of "Dirty Dishes," a song by a servant badgered by the police and the media which stretches a modest image to the breaking point.

You want a proper and modest image.

The new code on more modest images will apply only to the covers of the magazines rather than their full content, and campaigners dismissed the move as "a half-measure that doesn't address the harm of these publications".

In comparison to STORM and 3D-SIM the gain in resolution is modest, but image deconvolution has the advantage of being applicable to confocal image data.

That coach, Bill Holden, then a Harvard assistant, still stirs gratitude in Lin, for studying his game and for ignoring supposed shortcomings: Palo Alto's modest basketball image and Lin's Taiwanese-American lineage.

Now it's the turn of Bartoli – that supremely fiery and coquettish Italian mezzo who conceived this production for the Salzburg Whitsun festival of which she is artistic director – who unquestionably owns the stage from modest opening image to ecstatically intense final immolation.

Artists like Common and Deltron are known to usually concentrate fully on lyrical content, resulting in a more modest, stylish image.

Although that is a modest figure compared with Toyota's annual output of around 8m vehicles, it has transformed the company's image.