Sentence examples for supremely modest from inspiring English sources

Supremely modest, no doubt.

There is no one quite like her in New York dance, and Mr. Taylor saw and shaped that supremely modest, artless-looking artistry and gave it free rein.

He was a supremely modest man, unassuming, fiercely loyal to his party and to his political masters and without a trace of personal ambition.

Margaret Obank writes: Mahmoud was a completely secular person, rather philosophical, an avid reader, elegant in his dress, and supremely modest in his opinion of himself.

But it is not so surprising that others, notably Moses, held the public's attention during his era, for Ammann was notable for his supremely modest and self-effacing personality.

Jackie Kennedy's short but dramatically heavy veil and neat, black Givenchy suit were at once supremely modest and perfectly stylish, the quintessence of elegant widowhood.

One of the effects of the tone Orwell achieved — the tone of a reasonable, modest, supremely undogmatic man, hoping for the best but resigned to the worst — was the impression of transparency, something that Orwell himself, in an essay called "Why I Write," identified as the ideal of good prose.

Like all modest but supremely skilled people, he makes his craft look simple.

Neighbors doubted his sanity and nicknamed him Edward Scissorhands, but this modest and supremely patient son of a sharecropper persisted with his fantastical sculptures.

Mighty at arms, he was also conscientious in religious observances; supremely powerful, he was nonetheless a modest and courteous companion.

Even the supremely civilized M. R. James, whose modest aim was to make his readers feel "pleasantly uncomfortable," conceded that "on the whole... you must have horror and also malevolence" in a ghost story, and would have been mortified to think he had disappointed that expectation.