Sentence examples for modesty looking from inspiring English sources

He answered questions with his usual quiet modesty, looking near my face.

"Something is happening... .. was the tentative headline on the front page of L'Equipe this morning, their mankini of modesty looking ludicrous given the bald facts and the naked splendour of France's 2-0 victoverover Holland, which followed the 3-0 spanking of Ukraine in the second leg of the World Cup play-off.

At times, his modesty looks almost like naïveté.

This collection, with its masculine tailoring and sexy cut-away dresses with sheer silk tops and bands of snakeskin wrapped around the bosom for a semblance of modesty, looked nothing like his namesake show.

The long hemlines, high necklines yet bare arms recall the "modern modesty" look that labels such as Valentino and Alessandra Rich routinely riff on and that has found favour on the red carpet with the likes of Alexa Chung, Rosario Dawson and even Samantha Cameron.

The second standout was Forces of Nature, and the powerful opening section of Abdel R. Salaam's "Vision 5 — A Question of Modesty" looked back at the ways harsh representatives of Christianity and Islam tried to enforce foreign notions of morality as Africans were shipped as slaves to the Americas.

The biggest problem Boston startups have, says Destin, is modesty, and looking into the past.

*As for "modesty -- "not looking too good, nor talking too wise --watch out!

No dark cotton can be found, so the black dress is hastily stitched up with bright purple thread, which preserves Thornberry's modesty but looks a little surprising.

(On the day after the fight, Liston said, with becoming modesty, "I might look as slow as a snail, but in the ring I'm fast as a cat").

"Which was designed to be worn over several layers of petticoats to preserve a women's modesty, but which looked so unbelievably fresh and modern on its own," Mr. Banks-Blaney said.