Sentence examples for a bit of modest from inspiring English sources

Benedict Andrews directed an outstanding Return of Ulysses for ENO in 2011 but lost focus in this football stadium setting, designed by Ralph Myers, in which steep banks of upturned seats were hardly enlivened by all the theatre-of-cruelty walk-ons: clowns, men in suits and paper hats, cloned tiller girls with a bit of modest nakedness.

"I had a little bit of modest success," he smiles.

They have characterized their sweeping plan, with a bit of cheek, as a modest proposal.

"A piece of geology activated by light" is how he refers to the desert, and out of this view has grown an aesthetic of epic minimalism, on prominent display in his house for Brad Tocker, which brings a bit of Donald Judd to a modest residential neighborhood called Sunnyslope.

The anti-bling bling angle is devastating, but there's also a bit of Jacques Chirac in this modest love he's expressing for the first time.

Wear a shorter skirt with a blouse that covers you or show a bit of cleavage in a modest length dress.

This might be "a bit of an illusion", given the modest power of most American allies.

He reflects on the CCRC's caricature as the institutional villain ("campaigners need a bit of hate") but has some "modest proposals".

One bit of modest good news for NBC was a slight uptick for its reality competition show "The Sing Off," which managed to climb to a 1.8 rating from a 1.7 the week before.

A bit of both may explain their relatively modest displays.

Is the world's first, and mightiest, national public broadcaster turning modest?Not a bit of it.