| An overmodest and retiring applicant does not stand much of a chance. |
| I like his openness to the idea that his way isn't the only way. If anything, he is overmodest. |
| Sometimes Nichols appears too ready to take at face value Ravel's overmodest words on his own output. |
| The advantage of possessing unique and private information, accessible to no researching biographer, is counterbalanced by the difficulty of establishing a stance that is neither overmodest nor aggressively self-assertive. |
| This is all the more worrying in that the internal market can be successfully completed only if there is an appreciable increase in occupational mobility within the Community over its present overmodest level. |
