Sentence examples for unusually modest from inspiring English sources

When Pistorius pictured himself as "the bullet in the chamber", he was being unusually modest.

At the dinner table, Japanese confine themselves to unusually modest portions by American standards.

In Congress, where bombast and pomposity are common, Mr. Mansfield was unusually modest and self-effacing.

In addition to being unusually modest, the recovery has been unusually unbalanced — especially in how its gains have been distributed.

In a sense, Truman disorder is an unusually modest form of grandiose delusion: rather than becoming Napoleon, you become a famous version of yourself.

At least with regard to his abilities as an author, bin Laden was unusually modest: he let someone else write the words.

The discrimination is modest, but not unusually so for this particular setting.

Retailers, expecting a modest Christmas, are offering unusually hefty discounts at the outset of the holiday shopping season.

This is heartening by past standards, but set against what needs to be done, it is still only a modest success, achieved in unusually helpful conditions.

Three crystalline modifications are identified for PDTC: form I from solution, form III in melt spun fibers, while form II, obtained from the melt at surprisingly small undercoolings shows unusually large coherent domain dimensions, chain extended morphology and a modest enthalpy of fusion.

Unusually for Jews, whose alcohol intake is modest, rabbinic literature permits intoxication on this day.