Sentence examples for small and modest from inspiring English sources
By reducing truth to something "small and modest," Blackburn hopes to induce its enemies to call off their siege.
Summary: experimental data shows that small and modest vagal bradycardia is accompanied by hyperpolarisation of the pacemaker cell which is severely attenuated by tertiapin-Q.
It appears that he will be heavily favored in the Belmont against what could be a small and modest group of competitors.
It also offhandedly announces his credo — everything small and modest is beautiful and pleasing — and establishes the depth of his affinity with Kafka.
Built by Whitman's father, the two-story shingled house is both small and modest but also a kind of workingman's showplace, with extra-large windows and built-in cabinetry meant to advertise Walt Whitman Sr.'s woodworking skills.
— I am, to put it frankly, a Chinese; that is to say, a person who deems everything small and modest to be beautiful and pleasing, and to whom all that is big and exacting is fearsome and horrid.
In the Turner turf wars, the Baltimore Museum show is a little like Switzerland: small, modest and neutral.
Except for the stylish Caffè Adulis, most of these restaurants are small, modest and inexpensive.
A small, modest and private person, acute and humorous, Barker was given to warm friendship, and generous in her praise of other writers.
Small, modest and white, the chapel resembles a 19th-century New England church from the outside, apart from the steeple topped by a winged Labrador.
In the ambitious and mostly delightful "Infinite City," Solnit offers "a small, modest and deeply arbitrary rendering of one citizen's sense of her place in conversation and collaboration with others".
