Sentence examples for modest satisfaction from inspiring English sources

But don't hide modest satisfaction when the woolliest yarns are disentangled.

Our inner high school nerds took modest satisfaction in this victory. .

The New Yorker, May 10 , 1999P. 40 AROUND CITY HALL about NYCLU activist Norman Siegel, 55, head of the local chapter of the A.C.L.U. for the past fourteen years... Describes the modest satisfactions associated with working for the American Civil Liberties Union..

AROUND CITY HALL about NYCLU activist Norman Siegel, 55, head of the local chapter of the A.C.L.U. for the past fourteen years... Describes the modest satisfactions associated with working for the American Civil Liberties Union.. As much as anyone, Siegel has helped promote the group's post-Skokie image.

Although Ms. Lahiri's portraits of the women in Gogol's life are somewhat sketchy -- Maxine and her parents, in particular, seem more like New York stereotypes than real individuals -- she narrates the story of her hero's coming of age with enormous sympathy and aplomb, while cutting back and forth to fill in the lives of his parents, as they settle into the modest satisfactions of middle age.

Victims of state failings are in a uniquely difficult situation: before-the-event legal insurance policies invariably exclude claims of this nature and – in contrast with this case – compensation is usually extremely modest: "just satisfaction" for a violation by the state of the most fundamental of human rights – the right to life - might be reflected in no more than £15,000 damages.

Another survey indicated a more modest 59percentt satisfaction rate, but that was still the fifth best in the country.

The relatively modest increase in satisfaction (1.03 percentage points) for this group, representing one third of the survey respondents, implies that improvements in health care provision were favorably received by "healthy" persons, but its influence was weak.