Sentence examples for modest so much from inspiring English sources

The expectations for victory had been fairly modest, so much of attention had been on nonsports matters.

DS: I don't think I'm modest so much as I'm realistic.

I love Modest Mouse so much because the chemistry of those guys was a real brotherhood.

Many Afghan women are extremely modest, she said, so much so that they do not want to touch themselves.

(While Mr. Paul embraces civil liberties, he is personally modest and decorous, so much so that while awaiting a recent appearance here on "The Tonight Show," he seemed embarrassed listening in his dressing room to a few monologue jokes told by the host Jay Leno — at the expense of Mr. Santorum — about masturbation).

But how has a woman with such a modest profession accumulated so much money to give away in the first place?

But the always modest Rooney is so much more.

Chasing retired entertainers, rather than negotiating to buy expensive documents held by knowledgeable collectors, made a modest acquisitions budget stretch so much further.

Small and medium-size banks, after all, are at a competitive disadvantage to the big guys, so they are less able to lend to companies of modest size, which do so much of the hiring in this country.

"Lee has really embraced the idea of it being a black Dynasty but from the beginning I've said to him you're being too modest – this show is so much more than that.

The government's own admission that the reforms will only make a "modest" contribution to its target of reducing net migration was repeatedly highlighted during the debate: "The word 'bonkers' springs to mind," said Stuart McDonald, an SNP MP. "If the so-called gain is a modest one, why inflict so much pain?" Gillian Brown, 26, is one of the Australians at the receiving end of that pain.