Sentence examples for modesty on from inspiring English sources
Which is a bit of false modesty on his behalf.
He kept urging "modesty" on the senators, which began to sound like "Don't do anything".
The look of carefully arranged, unstarry modesty on her face is a joy.
More modesty on both the supply and the demand side of economics will produce better results.
Again, such modesty on such an occasion — rare in any artist — went straight to the heart.
Modesty, on the other hand, is the bog-standard buzz-kill at the great cocktail party of life.
This assertion is not based on false modesty but on the reality that I don't have a great track record in finishing what I've started.
Modesty bordering on self-effacement is his default mode.
Like a Madonna, she projects both humility and self-assurance — modesty predicated on confidence.
The ancient Greek philosopher Epicurus advised living with ascetic modesty, subsisting on a diet of cheese, water and an occasional sip of wine.
The high-street kaftan unwittingly drove modesty creep on the beach long before the burkini, but thanks to its more easily mood-boardable aesthetic – 60s bohemian Marrakesh, rather than 21st-century Saudi – nobody noticed, or cared.
