Sentence examples for modestly pleased from inspiring English sources

Mr. Kiernan seems happy for the winner and modestly pleased to make his game show debut.

Of course you have to duck and weave to find it – but quality papers have something to feel modestly pleased about.

Brossel says her team is "modestly" pleased with its handling of the recent floods, when torrential rains saw the Seine rise to a dangerous 6.10 metres a fortnight ago, sparking transport and traffic chaos.

So England – and Ashley Giles and the stand-in captain, Eoin Morgan, in particular – can be modestly pleased with the manner in which the replacements, young thrusters for the most part, acquitted themselves.

Schnabel shows us an enormous amount of work — his output of the year — with the modestly pleased air of a successful entrepreneur.

North Korea's Workers Partyy has also opened several restaurants abroad, intent perhaps to show that at least its cuisine is not evil (no dog dishes, please).More modestly, the Thai government aims to make it easier for foreign restaurants to import Thai foods, to help them to hire Thai cooks and sometimes to benefit from soft loans.

It opens modestly with a comic chapter narrated by Ugwu, a houseboy who longs to please.

"Please, please, please... .. "Down".

"Dad, please, please, please".

Please ".

Please, please, please, please.