Sentence examples for modest old from inspiring English sources

Certainly, his St. Nicholas, which will include a nondenominational bereavement center, will look nothing like the modest old parish church that it is replacing.

Montsalier Banon Tel/fax: (0)492 732361 Doubles £43.75 This apparently modest old house is a surprise: it unfolds to reveal a place of grandeur.

We drove over to the White Oak Civil War Museum, a modest old school building filled with installations and artifacts that amazed even the most-well-traveled buffs among us.

That's part of the reason why Abdul Raheem Sharif turned his modest old house (they do exist in Dubai) into The Flying House, a spontaneous, overflowing mini-museum for local artists to display and preserve their art in the absence of a proper institution to do it for them.

The search for a fitting synagogue design has yielded many different results, as is underscored in a recent wave of construction and renovation projects ranging from the extravagantly neo-Classical Congregation Shearith Israel on Central Park West to the poignantly modest Old Broadway Synagogue, just off 125th Street, in Harlem.

Pastas come with a modest, old-timey salad of mixed greens with a sweet balsamic dressing.

Insistent legend continued to wrap her in the image of the modest, old-fashioned spinster.

In recent years, their Hell's Kitchen neighbors have followed the struggle between Salvatore's modest old-world grocery store, with its 100-year-old tin ceilings and ancient marble countertops, and James's 180-seat gold mine.

May 17 2011 July 3 201111 The star of this modest, old-school musical revue, directed by David Zippel, is Cy Coleman's music — jazzy show tunes and catchy numbers like "Hey, Look Me Over," recorded by singers like Tony Bennett, Frank Sinatra, Judy Garland, and Nina Simone.

Approximately equidistant from Rome and Florence (a two-hour drive from either city on the A1 autostrada) Sette Querce (the name means "seven oaks") has been in operation five years, since it was completely renovated and transformed from a modest, old-fashioned locanda, or inn, with many bedrooms, few bathrooms, and a restaurant known locally for its awful food.

In the first half of the novel Ms. Smiley does a deft job of juggling these two intersecting plot lines: Felicity's liberation of Joe from his strict religious upbringing and fussy bachelor ways, and Marcus's liberation of him from his careful, cautious existence, his modest, old-fashioned expectations.