Sentence examples for modesty as from inspiring English sources

Pursuing our interests and spreading our ideals thus requires stealth and modesty as well as military strength.

"Their morals and modesty, as well as their games, are those of paleolithic man, and they are as remorselessly cruel".

He was often seen riding his bicycle, and he was popular with colleagues for his wit and personal modesty, as well as his erudition.

Laurie has been doing the chat show rounds for this record, his combination of obvious smarts and gosh-wow modesty as charming as ever, and he's clearly delighted to be fronting a crack blues band on live TV.

This isn't as crazy as it sounds — versions of the supermajority idea have been batted around by left and right alike since Reconstruction, and merely proposing it might spur the Court toward greater consensus, and perhaps greater modesty as well.

It asks us to bathe in their modesty, as well as to question its limitations without judgment.

Sometimes, there is honesty in modesty even as false as that.

*Composed film scores including Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, The Servant and Modesty Blaise, as well as theme tunes to The Avengers, right, and Tomorrow's World.

Her modesty was as remarkable as her intellectual chutzpah and financial acumen (one of her many accomplishments was a licence to trade on the Wall Street exchange).

In the close-knit world of ultra-Orthodox Judaism, community members know the modesty rules as well as Wall Street bankers who show up for work in a Brooks Brothers suit.

The Būstān is entirely in verse (epic metre) and consists of stories aptly illustrating the standard virtues recommended to Muslims (justice, liberality, modesty, contentment) as well as of reflections on the behaviour of dervishes and their ecstatic practices.