Sentence examples for modicum of his from inspiring English sources

André is a strong man, I hope he can find a modicum of his definition".

William Claude Fields Professor Eustace McGargle, F. A. S. N., to Paramount's "Poppy"—once more is compelled to exert every ounce of his timorous strength, every modicum of his transparent guile, every particle of his sublime patience to withstand the combined onslaughts of his human or inanimate opponents.

It was the irony of this man's success at hawking happiness, while struggling to find a modicum of his own that Weiner wanted to communicate.

Had he used a modicum of his considerable power to overrule Curley and direct him to call the police immediately, he could have saved countless other victims, the shame and damage to Penn State, and the tragedy of his own shattered end as a president.

Though his myriad gifts as a novelist lend the resulting story more than a modicum of suspense, his two central characters remain paper-and-paste constructions, assembled out of a bunch of outrageous anecdotes and devoid of any sort of coherent inner life.

Impressed with the Champ's canny assessment of the combatants, he puts some of those observations into his article and gains a modicum of respect from his grim, critical boss, Metz (Alan Alda), who until then had dismissed his writing as mechanical and colorless.

A modicum of stability during his childhood was provided by his aia (governess), Dona Maria Genoveva do Rêgo e Matos, whom he loved as a mother, and by his aio (supervisor) friar António de Arrábida, who became his mentor.

If Mr Saleh cannot soon bring a modicum of prosperity to his people, the spirit of revolt may seep into his own back yard.

But with the help of Ravichandran Ashwin (20), Dhoni managed a gritty unbeaten 57 - his maiden fifty on Australian soil - to hand a modicum of respectability to his side's total before he ran out of partners.

Dressed in a three-piece business suit, Mr. Gantner preserved a modicum of dignity despite his humiliating performance in the song contest.

Anyone who knows him, or has spent the tiniest modicum of time in his company, knows Matthew McConaughey has a distinct "thing" for the open road, the call of the wild.