Sentence examples for the modest the from inspiring English sources

The back seat is not for the modest; the passenger's legs are splayed to either side of the driver.

WHILE the Cannes International Film Festival is certainly the best place to see the latest offerings of the global cinematic elite, it also provides unparalleled opportunities to seek out the obscure, the modest, the emerging and the odd.

Luckily for the modest, the other spa with access to the water, the modern and huge (32,000 square feet) Caracalla Spa, next to Friedrichsbad, requires bathing suits (except in the saunas where they are verboten).

Back in 1949, he was celebrated in the modest The Story of Seabiscuit, the penultimate movie of another iconic figure who brought cheer to a depressed nation in the Thirties, Shirley Temple.

Even if he did have one eye on publication he is scathingly honest with and about himself, a curiously endearing amalgam of the vain and the modest, the proud and the humble.

I found myself fixating on those tools of soapless ablution at two museum shows conceived in honor of the 2004 Olympics: the profuse "Games for the Gods: The Greek Athlete and the Olympic Spirit," at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, and the modest "The Games in Ancient Athens," at the Metropolitan.

It should also touch on his collaborations with the likes of the Pretenders, the The, Modest Mouse and the Cribs.

Since leaving the Smiths, Marr has played with various bands including the Cribs, Modest Mouse and the The.

Speaking of people and cargo, the carrying capacity of the Murano is modest by the standards of the breed.

The increase is modest given the scale of the global refugee crisis.

However, there was a huge discrepancy between the whole and the very modest sum of the parts.