Sentence examples for Modest accomplishment from inspiring English sources
(In 1970 Clive Barnes wrote in The New York Times that the troupe's standards never drop below "at least modest accomplishment").
"Then She Found Me," a serious comedy, is more impressive for what it refuses to do than for its modest accomplishment.
It's a modest accomplishment, and the devil may yet be in the details, but it's clearly a positive signal that Japan's political and business elites can work together more effectively.
(Dargis) 'THEN SHE FOUND ME' (R, 1 40) This serious comedy about pregnancy and adoption is more impressive for what it refuses to do than for its modest accomplishment.
(Scott) 'THEN SHE FOUND ME' (R, 1 40) This serious comedy about pregnancy and adoption is more impressive for what it refuses to do than for its modest accomplishment.
Knowledge of her senseless, untimely death makes the final scenes of Waitress especially painful to watch, and the sturdy, modest accomplishment of the film can hardly begin to make up for the loss.
Modest accomplishments earn bubbly praise.
New intelligence, he said, had made Tehran's more modest accomplishments the more pressing threat.
This is not the time to allow them to rebuild their reputation with a series of modest accomplishments.
Whom would you admire more – a politician with many accomplishments who resigned in disgrace for unethical behavior, or one with more modest accomplishments but absolute integrity?
Modest accomplishments, sure, but they are feats that seemed beyond the Nets' reach as they stumbled through the first two months of the season.
