"modest" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- And for the first time Gunnar saw more than just a flash of the person beneath the quiet, modest exterior.
- She recognized it now for what it was, masked under that sweet, modest exterior she had mistaken for his true self.
- The house had a modest exterior, but the interior was sumptuously decorated and boasted a 'sunken bathtub' (an indoor swimming pool), the first in the city.
- Yet every now and then, behind the modest exterior, comfortable tunes and pious professions of love, something more unsettling emerges.
- At his side farther down is Wilhelm Frick, a cold and ruthless man behind his rather modest exterior.
- The Royal Theatre's modest exterior belies the gorgeously decorated auditorium - like a trip back to the Victorian heyday of Theatre.
- Architects chose a relatively modest exterior - no domes, pediments or other points of architectural interest - so as to accentuate, but not overpower the Capitol.
- The modest exterior, belies an impressive panelled interior with its plaster ceilings by the craftsmen who went on to decorate Holyrood.
- St Olave's has a modest exterior in the Perpendicular Gothic style.
- Eminence,' he had always said, 'I beg you, don't be fooled by their modest and decorous exterior.
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