We were voting for the ideal as much as the man, a Corinthian athlete of genuine modesty who cared nothing for gain other than the joy winning brought.

"Only a poet" seems to be the expression of a genuine modesty.

Perhaps an "expression of a genuine modesty," or perhaps "it was something someone else had said to her."

The qualities that made him so special-his extraordinary loyalty, genuine modesty and uncanny intuition-will be greatly missed.

"I want to say on top of the game," he said with genuine and appealing modesty.

He was "a meticulous scholar" and a "brilliant bibliographer" who showed "a genuine modesty about his great erudition."

He courted these men with unforced admiration, a genuine modesty and a slightly morbid enjoyment of being put down or rebuffed.

Her spoken introduction to the folks at home is an endearing amalgam of relaxed humor and genuine modesty, a relic of a vanished era of civility.

A Missouri boy by birth, his genuine modesty and old-fashioned dedication to hard work were as exceptional as the 527 home runs he had hit during his sixteen years in the major leagues.

Nobody can accuse Mr. Schnabel of genuine modesty.