Sentence examples for modest insight from inspiring English sources

A modest insight, perhaps, but it eased his conscience and disabused him of the old idea that procrastinators should limit commitments.

In the third one, "Billy Phelan's Greatest Game," I managed to write with modest insight and an unexpected degree of sympathy about the boss, whom I called Patsy McCall, and how he found it important to monitor a lowly pool hustler like Billy Phelan and punish him for his insolent behavior.

A primary thrill of listening to "Cocaine & Rhinestones," for me, a classic-country fan of modest insight — I love Hank Williams, Sr., Johnny Cash, Loretta Lynn, and Patsy Cline; I've watched a few bio-pics; as a kid, I was fascinated by "Hee-Haw" — is the education it provides about other, less familiar artists, whose music is immediately, viscerally appealing.

I suppose The Ugly One has some comment on beauty and superficiality to make but it's too straightforward and unsurprising to offer even the modest insight of those TV episodes.

Early use of proteomics in cancer research primarily focused on the identification or quantification of proteins, and provided only modest insight into the biological relevance of the findings.

Environmental air pollutants are inhaled as complex mixtures, but the long dominant focus of monitoring and research on individual pollutants has provided modest insight into pollutant interactions that may be important to health.

We hope to have contributed some modest insights in understanding the dynamics and future developments of the ART programme in Indian context.

The advantages for the interpretation were clearly illustrated by the modest insights gained from the two different strategies for individual-gene analysis ('Glycosylation site:N-linked'), as opposed to the detailed gene modules produced by our approach that can serve as a novel basis for further investigation into the molecular mechanisms underlying normative aging.

One modest $425m project, InSight, to be launched in 2016 to study Martian geology, has been approved, though it will have little bearing on the hunt for life there.

Many directors of moderate merit do well in capturing their own experience or that of others of modest and practical insight — but when they lay hold of works of genius, they simply aren't up to the material and reveal not the vastness of the author's imagination but the limits of their own.

A modest man whose insights were not as well known as those of more flamboyant colleagues, Dr. Rosenbluth as a young man helped invent the hydrogen bomb, was exposed to radioactive fallout in a nuclear test and soon thereafter devoted himself to trying to harness thermonuclear fire for peaceful ends.