Sentence examples for most modest and from inspiring English sources

It was the most modest and humble approach I had in all my life, probably.

"We're going to reserve our efforts and our national solidarity for the most humble, the most modest and the most poor among us," Le Pen told the conference.

An unusually sensible wish for a young actor, but then clearly Lloyd-Hughes is, in the most modest and likeable fashion, entirely unafraid of following his own path.

Briers, always the most modest and self-deprecating of actors, and the sweetest of men, relished the review, happy to claim a place in the light comedians' gallery of his knighted idols Charles Hawtrey, Gerald du Maurier and Noël Coward.

A calm, publicity-shy diplomat who was more a mediator than a policy maker, Mr. Vance was one of the most modest and unpretentious men ever to hold the post.

On the European grand tour of international exhibitions this summer, Sculpture Projects Münster '07 is the baby: the smallest, youngest, the most modest and, this year especially, the least polished.

The neighborhood acquired its name, and its cachet, when Andrew Carnegie built what he called "the most modest, plainest and most roomy house in New York" at the corner of 91st Street and Fifth Avenue.

Winesmiths Tempranillo comes in a box, so get out your most modest decanter and pop it next to the cold meats and olives.

Ordinary citizens instead borrowed from their banks in cheaper currencies such as yen and Swiss francs to buy even the most modest homes and cars.But after the banks collapsed in early October, the currency slumped and domestic interest rates rose sharply (see chart 2).

The great impresarios of one of the most spectacular cultural industries of the last century began in the most modest way and made a success as pioneers because they had liberty and a fierce desire to succeed.

One of the most modest items, and one of the best, is the wild-mushroom soup.