Sentence examples for modest of the from inspiring English sources

Elected leader of the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) on Monday, he's now the country's new prime minister – their sixth in the past five years, and almost certainly the most modest of the lot.

Even Hex Cottage, the most modest of the holiday lets in the grounds of east Suffolk's Wilderness Reserve, has the hazy look of something from a fairytale, drawn by a daydreaming child.

"It can't work," said Daniel F. Evans Jr., the chief executive of Clarian Health Partners, whose Clarian Cardiovascular Center is the most modest of the undertakings, at $30 million, and the only one built within a full-service hospital.

The shortest (at one hour) and most modest of the shows is "Save the Titanic With Bob Ballard" (National Geographic, Monday), hosted by the explorer who first discovered the Titanic wreckage in 1985.

The special exhibitions for the summer opening are usually mounted in one of the more modest of the state rooms: the dress needed its own enormous dais in the centre of the vast ballroom while giant reproductions of wedding photographs of the family groups and the happy couple dominated the throne room.

Indifferently directed by the cinematographer Richard Moore ("The Wild Angels"), "Circle of Iron" is no great shakes as a movie but remains a wistful reminder of the modest pleasures (emphasis on modest) of the pre-blockbuster action movie, when budgets were more in line with ambitions.

Maricopa County is not a modest, out-of-the-way place.

That is the modest end of the dining-alone section.

The new study found modest evidence of the biochemical changes.

Exports are one modest part of the national economy.

Nonetheless I propose a more modest version of the idea.