Sentence examples for modest joys from inspiring English sources
Near the end of the night, she asked all of her band members to leave the stage so that she could perform "My Life," an old song about modest joys and privileges, by herself.
The Tale of the Princess Kaguya is a modest but opulent joy to behold.
The New Yorker, September 27 , 1930P. 44 Tells of trip back to New York on the New Bedford boat and description of the passengers who are wearing all shades and colors from strawberry to deep vermilion sunburn which they are all wearing with a modest look of joy.
MEANWHILE, modest jobs mean modest lives.
They may be poor and their instruments modest, but what expressive joy and conviction!
Its aims (beyond the obvious commercial ones) are comparatively modest: to celebrate the joy that can come out of creative freedom and, by extension, to reassert the individual's place within a larger social framework.
Although worries remained, in the form of police guarding the city's tunnels and bridges, the New York area returned to a much more modest version of sorrow and joy this year.
We planned a full-on birthday bash and while we had a modest number of attendees, Barbara's joy and enthusiasm couldn't have been greater if we had had thousands.
Words, stories and intriguing patterns once gave the Pearl family joy and comfort in their modest one-room apartment.
Dave was quiet about his contributions because he was modest, but also because he genuinely took more joy in the success of others than his own.
