Sentence examples for modestly assertive from inspiring English sources

It isn't the most robust defence – "which I don't think is such a bad thing at all" – but it's robust enough in its modestly assertive way.

A Tragedy of Fashion was greeted as a clever novelty – an "engaging little ballet" wrote the Observer – and it was Rambert's instinct for the new that marked out her next decade, as the modestly named Ballet Club expanded into the more assertive Ballet Rambert.

Be assertive!

Modestly, sure.

noticeably, even if modestly.

The Youlds lived modestly.

He shrugged modestly.

I dress modestly.

Morales smiled modestly.

I gave modestly.

The euro rose modestly.