Sentence examples for modest man's from inspiring English sources

It would be a cruel irony if this well connected and modest man's impressive reputation was undermined by the idea that he had contributed to the globalisation of the Notting Hill streets his film intended to celebrate.

"Franklin from the get-go understood that he was a modest man's son but he had powers that rich men's sons didn't have," Michael Zuckerman, a history professor at the University of Pennsylvania, says.

And the professional interior designers who redecorated the house, the parsonage on the grounds of St. Peter's Episcopal Church, dubbed it a modest man's castle, a house the average family could live in.

Mayor Eric Garcetti has spoken movingly about what Vin Scully means to Los Angeles, and of our need to honor this modest man's outsize gift to Angelenos these past 60-odd years.

The designer, who up to that point had a modest following for the modest men's shoes he had introduced, decided that, henceforth, modesty be damned.

A modest man with an accountant's mentality, he also owned Fortnum & Mason, the swankiest food shop in London.

Two days later, Breslin followed his masterful coverage of the biggest story in the world with a lyrical column on Clifton Pollard, the modest man who dug Kennedy's grave, at Arlington National Cemetery.

I'm surprised". He's a modest man.

"He's a modest man, who walks among giants.

But Cukor was a modest man, with no trace of Higgins's grandiosity.

But Tom, who's a very modest man, didn't have the same philosophy.