Looking back 50 years to the dawn of the cold war, a certain modesty is in order.

A certain modesty, I suspect; an inspiration that affects us deeply without demanding that we direct our attention to its source.

He would not have risked more if he had said twenty thousand; but a certain juvenile modesty restrained him.

Was it a certain modesty that so attracted record buyers to the Cowboy Junkies?

So I felt a certain modesty and discretion would make for better diplomatic results.

Mr. Willen's design, on the other hand, bespoke a certain modesty and reasonableness.

Yet you could argue, we suppose, that there would be a certain modesty in a house this size.

Probably because of their terrible living conditions, they acquired a certain modesty, a sense of the value of music as something important and powerful.

This should inspire a certain modesty on the part of those who draft such declarations.

Of course there's a certain unexpected modesty to that attitude.