Sentence examples for more modesty in from inspiring English sources

More modesty in Archbishop Dolan would be admirable, as he proposes to be a leader in the culture wars.

I wish you would make use of your liberty with more modesty in time to come".

But wouldn't it be nice if everyone dressed with more modesty in public (and especially at school,) if for no other reason than simple respect for those boys and girls?

More modesty and effort, in other words, would improve the predictive performance of everyone from the TV pundits to the political scientists, and members of the public trying to understand what is likely to happen next.

The swell of public admiration was so great that Colonel Ramon's father, in classic Israeli fashion, was quoted as wondering if a little more modesty might not be in order.

In today's Britain, 2 million pensioners live below the poverty line – half the 1990 figure – while child poverty has dropped more modesty to 2.3 million.

The smallest details (a stammering child, the wrinkle in the turned page of a book) stick like burrs, and we are left to wonder if any director has delved with more modesty and honesty into the heartbreak of the past.

The left is calling for more combativeness and principle; moderates are seeking more modesty and pragmatism.

All of this was a total affront to the mores of modesty in this cultured, landlocked, south-east Asian communist state.

Mrs. Ibrahim, too, covers her head, seemingly even more intent on modesty in Port Washington than back in Egypt.

There is more beauty and modesty in the way Mr. Jacobs exposes a bra strap than you see most days on the subway.