Sentence examples for profoundly modest from inspiring English sources

In another sense, it is profoundly modest.

But their movement's goal is profoundly modest compared with the Arab Spring calls for democracy that have toppled some Middle Eastern governments and shaken others.

The profoundly modest mountaineer from the Swiss Ticino that Diego remained, even after spending decades in the abrasive Paris art world, would have roared with laughter on hearing that one of his pieces had fetched roughly 150 times what he used to charge.

That turns architecture to something more playful.' Balmond is clearly a profoundly modest man, happy with his second billing to his friend but, even so, he says: 'I think the library in Seattle is the best building in America in the last 30 years.

If you take eight minutes to read it all, it's easy to tell that the plan we've just been handed is a collection of profoundly modest goals and reheated policy announcements.

It was standard Grunwald commentary: modest, straightforward, profoundly uncontroversial.

It "was so exactly what I wanted to wear... sincerely comfortable, modest, superchic, profoundly modern".

Unfailingly modest and profoundly humane, "The Way We Get By" profiles three people over 70 whose lives have been changed by a simple act of service: greeting troops at Bangor International Airport in Maine.

Before his death, he taught at Penn, Stanford, and Michigan, and published articles on maritime law, their scope profoundly, almost rebukingly more modest than that of his father's work — "Supervening Impossibility of Performing Conditions in Admiralty," for example, or "Private Carriers and the Harter Act".

It "was so exactly what I wanted to wear... sincerely comfortable, modest, super-chic, profoundly modern".

However, the Canadian Pacific Railway, a billion-dollar, worldwide enterprise of which the airline is a relatively modest subsidiary, was profoundly dismayed.