Sentence examples for modest intellect from inspiring English sources
He said these and other outrageous things with the certitude that is usually enjoyed only by someone of modest intellect.
Sergio Romano, a former Italian ambassador and commentator, said in an interview, "Let's say the truth: These are people of modest intellect who should be let back in the country, and in two weeks forgotten".
According to this version of events, Homo erectus evolved from apemen predecessors, such as Australopithecus africanus, in Africa and then headed off around the Old World more than a million years ago, armed with a great physique and a modest intellect.
He was a modest man with remarkable intellect and devotion to science, who set an example of excellence for his students and colleagues.
A lot of the evaluation of her is, arguably, misogynist: she has been described as having a "mannish intellect", chastised for not being sufficiently modest about her literary success and made to feel, in her own words, that she is "a bitch for not having children".
Not exactly modest himself, at least he had a strong intellect to match his aristocratic pride.
Cottrell was a kind, gentle, sensitive and supportive person, modest, with a sense of humour and a brilliant intellect.
In his brother Orion, who'd developed a "modest little drilling machine," he recognized "the patrician blood of intellect".
For two summers, and on Saturdays during the school year, these Fieldston students spend their free time creating a society of intellects for promising sixth and seventh graders of modest means from the city's public and parochial schools.
Shot on a modest budget of $60,000, that film was an abrasively chiaroscuro black-and-white drama about a maths genius pushing his intellect to the limit and suffering nightmare delusions as a result.
