Sentence examples for modest to a from inspiring English sources

Costumes are modest to a fault.

Even Rohmer - who is modest to a fault - admits that he was happy with that one.

Mr. Galassi's poems are direct and plain-spoken, sometimes modest to a fault.

Rockwell was no mere illustrator, though — modest to a fault, he staked no larger claim.

Modest to a fault, he toiled diligently in the legislative vineyards for 17 years.

If Barnet do succeed then Allen may make Jones's touchline dash look modest to a fault.

Gleeson is modest to an almost pathological degree.

Smith is modest – to an extent that has become annoying for his daughter.

Although these proposals might reduce legal and auditing costs somewhat, the reduction would be modest to an already minor cost.

Signs of the generation gap were everywhere, though in some cases the results would have seemed very modest to an outsider.

Hornbein is too modest to add a coda.