Sentence examples for modestly explained from inspiring English sources

In other words, this novel is the semi-autobiographical culmination of Julian Cope's life's work – that being, as he has modestly explained, an attempt to lay down "the Ur-Text of Rock'n'Roll".

("I'm so well behaved" is how she modestly explained her new campus popularity. "I'm always on time, and I don't get drunk or hole up in a motel with my lover").

Relatively high serum carotenoid levels are associated with reduced risks of chronic diseases, but inter-individual variability in serum carotenoid concentrations is modestly explained by diet.

Therefore, the daily spatial patterns of endotoxin are only modestly explained by cropland, pasture land, and CAFO land use.

This phenomenon can be modestly explained as a more complicated regulatory mechanism being involved in drought stress in the Han21 line irrelevant to the bZIP protein, compared with the bZIP-dependent drought stress regulatory mechanism active in the Ye478 line.

Annotating a classic is hard, since it involves both discreetly explaining the obvious and modestly explaining the unobvious, while being willing to stand on a soapbox in the margin now and then to give a speech.

That's how Rock, rather modestly, explains his world tour, which will finally end the long wait for British fans for a proper sight of the 42-year-old comic.

Although he's only acting on intuition, Wylie has proved to be a gifted mind reader ("I just look, I stare, I gaze, and I pay attention to what I see," he modestly explains), so people tend to put stock in his hunches.

He modestly explains his contributions as a physician, clinical researcher, administrator, and corporate philanthropist by saying, "We can't all be Nobel-award-winning scientists".

Modestly explaining his exceptionally emotional performance, which includes realistic pounding of keyboards in a gorgeously filmed concert-hall sequence, Chamberlain said, "It's all Tchaikovsky.

"I must assume, therefore, that these are much less demanding times than the 1970s," he explains modestly.