Sentence examples for modest without from inspiring English sources

He had no false modesty about his remarkable voice, but he was personally modest, without self-importance or vanity.

In such an atmosphere, the marking of Christmas by Bethlehem's Christians should be modest, without big celebrations, he says.

"I actually hate looking at myself," he says, managing to sound modest without being cloyingly self-effacing.

Conclusions: Our results suggest that, while high IgA-class Anti-Hsp60 antibody level predicts coronary risk, the effect is modest without simultaneous occurrence of other classical risk factors.

"It will be modest, without pomposity, without excessive spending," said Deputy Prime Minister Boris Y . Nemtsov who is charged with organizing the event.

A few housing experts, including Professor Schill, believe that the mayor's plan would still be viable, if a bit more modest, without the credit.

She taught me how to be humble without being modest, how to be ambitious without being selfish, how to be rigorous but also kind.

He drives a horse-drawn buggy and lives in a modest farmhouse without electricity or running water.

It is Swift's "Modest Proposal" without a sense of humor, apt but pat and bizarrely respectful and florid.

Snodgrass's parents had raised four children on two modest incomes, without the ceaseless stress that she was enduring.

My dark sweater, I was sure, was modest, but without a yarmulke, I felt like an interloper.