Sentence examples for plain modest from inspiring English sources

John Adams described his cousin as a plain, modest, and virtuous man.

The Amish dress in the plain, modest clothing of their ancestors.

Some groups, such as the Old Order Amish, wear plain, modest clothing and head coverings and drive horse-drawn buggies.

A plain, modest style of dress was required for the young, female workers and a matron was always on duty to check on this.

But after the sitdown with Trump, Obama told staff members that he had talked Trump through the rudiments of forming a cabinet and policies, including the Iran nuclear deal, counter-terrorism policy, health care and that the President-elect's grasp of such matters was, as the debates had made plain, modest at best.

But after the sitdown with Trump, Obama told staff members that he had talked Trump through the rudiments of forming a cabinet and policies, including the Iran nuclear deal, counter-terrorism policy, health care — and that the President-elect's grasp of such matters was, as the debates had made plain, modest at best.

It's just her voice and a guitar there, plain and modest.

Continetti, who is thirty-two, dresses like an older man, in sombre dark suits, plain shirts, modest ties, and frameless glasses.

Mr. Poor's sunflowers are plain and modest — particularly compared to the famed, visionary-manic versions painted by Vincent van Gogh — as is the arrangement of assorted flowers in the foreground of Mr. Cikovsky's "Still Life at Wooley Pond" (circa 1945), a local body of water.

Nothing is exaggerated, but we have in the "Note" a plain and modest statement of the quiet and unostentatious execution of works the mere discussion of the difficulties of which had occupied the time of the predecessors of Sir Colin for the previous quarter of a century without anything useful resulting.

On Andrews Avenue North sits a house painted a strikingly bright shade of yellow, wedged conspicuously between modest, plain neighbors.