Sentence examples for modest statements from inspiring English sources

These are modest statements, about cars and money, not Dionysus, but they are the ones that make you want to cry.

Instead there were studies, sitting rooms, drawing rooms and retreats -- modest, functional rooms for a year that called for modest statements and scaled-back ambitions.

The practice is also ineffably irritating because it ultimately and slyly asserts the triumph of business over the personal: given that there's a higher tolerance for bragging in business than social circles, many falsely modest statements on Twitter and Facebook try to fly under decorum's radar by whispering to their readers, "You're my fan, not my friend".

So I wound up with a modest statement: "He was Russian".

A modest statement, but we find outself awed, humbled, and saddened by all it bespeak of the wondrous yet thankless pursuit of human knowledge.

While 25,000 spectators and the leaders of eight nations stood on Normandy's beaches on June 6 a half-century ago, Eisenhower stayed home and issued a modest statement from the White House.

Dr. Bertrand Piccard took the stage here at Le Web 2010 to talk about his ongoing efforts to build fuel-less planes with a modest statement, "If you don't read the NY Times you have never heard of Solar Impulse".

While 2005's movie calendar was short on polarizing events -- no one tackled the Passion or excoriated the Bush administration the way Mel Gibson and Michael Moore had the year before -- it was teeming with modest movies making small statements about Important Subjects.

The State Department presumably based its decision on the modest financial statements Ms. Daeron submitted with her visa application.

"If I say I have no coins in my pocket, you can just search me," said Colin McGinn, a professor of philosophy at Rutgers University, pointing out that people verify modest negative statements all the time with little difficulty.

That may be too modest a statement, considering Nadal's age — he is still just 24 — and his convincing transition from clay-court boy wonder to all-court ogre.