Sentence examples for of modest height from inspiring English sources

Cohen, who has worked at ExxonMobil since 1977, is a mild-looking man of modest height with a thick head of graying hair.

Williams is of modest height (five feet four), and slim, almost preternaturally so — "It's the thing I share with my dad.

Carlos, an iron worker by trade who is the son of migrant farm workers from Mexico, is a lean man of modest height, casually dressed, not the limousine type.

It was forty stories or so in an area of town houses and other structures of modest height and it created its own weather systems, with strong currents of air that sometimes sheared down the face of the building and knocked old people to the pavement.

Mr. Trintignant appears to have realized early on that he was, in the usual terms of movie stardom, only an average specimen of homo cinematicus: of modest height, medium good looking, possessed of a pleasant, expressive, but not terribly memorable voice.

And today, the places where this giant of modest height lived and worked have become a national monument to the immense significance of his life and the wonderful example of an existence devoted to do as much good for the rest of humanity as possible.

Now, he said, he might favor "an office building of more modest height with the possibility of a superstructure on top of it," an idea first sketched out by architects working for Larry A. Silverstein, who holds the lease to the trade center property.

Henin, who is of similarly modest height and build, has long been her inspiration.

As a young boy, he might even have been denied entry into China's sports machine because of his modest height (he now stands at 6ft 3ins).

The title plays on slang for a pint bottle of rotgut, the modest height of the author and his hero (Bruno is described variously as 5-foot-7 and approximately 5-foot-4) and the stories themselves.

For the next 10 years, until his death in a car accident in 1944, Ms. Vierny was Maillol's muse, posing for monumental works of sculpture that belied her modest height of 5 feet 2 inches.