Sentence examples for never modest from inspiring English sources

Never modest, the engineer assured the president that he possessed "practical and constructive skill shared by no engineer now living" and sought "no private advantage or emolument of any kind".

Not always completely egotistical, though never modest, Jerry Seinfeld resorted to do-you-know-who-I-am-ing Larry King in 2007 when the chatshow host asked him whether he or the network had cancelled his sitcom.

The airline's never-modest boss, Michael O'Leary, vowed to "destroy the airline business as we know it", and said that Ryanair would carry 30m passengers in three years' time, more than BA and Lufthansa.British Airways' hopes of competing with Lufthansa in its domestic markets ended ignominiously.

Marc Benioff has never been modest in his dreams for Salesforce.com, the business software company he founded in 1999.

The first giant trick is Andrea Pozzo's trompe l'oeil ceiling fresco which uses foreshortening to create an astoundingly realistic vision of the founder of the Society of Jesus soaring towards paradise to be welcomed by Christ (no, the Jesuits never were modest).

In a good cover version of the song, Phil Collins, a sophisticated drummer who was never a modest performer with Genesis, does a tight roll that begins with featherlight delicacy on a tomtom and ends more firmly on his snare, before going back to the beat.

Of course, any and every day is perfect to celebrate the life and achievements of Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (and Sir Winston, never falsely modest, would probably be the first to agree).

Gleeful, but never cruel, always modest.

Modest never saw those case reports.

I have never known a modest semiconductor cycle.

Bowie's 10-year career, never more than modest, has long been over.