Sentence examples for were modest to from inspiring English sources

In fact, she says, her parents' ambitions for her were modest to the point of restriction.

Infrastructure is stretched as renters crowd into dwellings that were modest to begin with.

As a tiny film about a hapless Hasidic Jew, starring non-actors speaking almost entirely in Yiddish, hopes for Menashe's reception were modest, to say the least.

Pronounced alterations in gene expression were found for c-fos and substance P, whereas effects on dynorphin and enkephalin expression were modest to minimal.

Although, the majority of the work values were related to the Five Factor Model-traits, correlations were modest to moderate, not exceeding 0.44.

He makes about $50,000, he said, and has stock options that were modest to start with but have grown through stock splits to around $350,000.

Costumes are modest to a fault.

She's modest to the point of shyness.

Gleeson is modest to an almost pathological degree.

But as ever, Walker is modest to the last.

The results have been modest, to put it mildly.