Sentence examples for the slightly modest from inspiring English sources

The slightly modest CVs of his would-be replacements – second-favourite Lisa Duffy boasts on her Twitter profile that she chairs the Christmas lights committee for the 8,000-population 8,000-populationown where she is a Cambridgeshireill promptownre speculation that Farage's taste for the limelight wherelead him to come back yet again.

Along with this slightly modest attitude are slightly modest prices.

I asked Sparkcentral why it decided to raise $12 million for its Series B — in the current capital climate, the sum is slightly modest, even if standard by historical norms.

Instead the slightly more modest goal has become to build an overland passage.

In the UK, we'll have to make do with the slightly more modest E398 (view the PDF fact sheet here), another lifestyle device, this time aimed at hip young music lovers.

These two, though, bottled it: "Woody and I took a look at the rather challengingly splendid specimens on the table before us, considered for a moment the slightly more modest scale of our own endowments, and said, 'Hmmm.

He added: "He's very shy and slightly modest and humble, and he doesn't like to be the center of attention.

Such is the setup of "Sexual Healing," Jill Nelson's first novel, described by its publisher as a "steamy and scabrously funny... comedy of outraged manners," an altogether fair, even slightly modest, assessment.

As for traction, Nederev is being slightly modest.

The community is a bit smaller, the deals not yet as grandiose, the pay slightly more modest.

The glum-nervy smile, the sidelong glance of the slightly bug eyes, that modest arching of the brows: all the Maguire tics were ready to roll, and there is something absurdly winning in Peter's expression as he realizes what heights he is now at liberty to scale.