Sentence examples for a comparatively lowly from inspiring English sources

It says something that the only star in the film (the popular actor Kenneth More) played a comparatively lowly, though heroic, character — Second Officer Herbert Lightoller, who managed to keep thirty men alive while they all stood on an overturned lifeboat.

Although most scholars agree that it represents Lisa del Giocondo, the wife of a local silk merchant, there is no consensus on why the artist chose such a comparatively lowly subject when he was evading requests from the Marchioness of Mantua.

But this beautifully concentrated, carefully oaked classic from a château that regularly punches above its official classification (it's a comparatively lowly cru bourgeois rather than a classed growth) is a relatively inexpensive opportunity to see what all the '05 fuss was about.

Moreover, if they had, would they have left the operation to a comparatively lowly employee in New York?

AOL says it will become the first digital publisher to use Nielsen's TV metrics to quantify its video shows for advertisers - a move that may expose it to comparatively lowly perception by comparison but which could allow it to seek a slice of the $70 billion US TV industry.

Her comparatively lowly position reflects the importance of a weighty backlist in calculating an author's total, with four out of the top five authors having published more than 50 titles.

At the comparatively lowly EMI label Parlophone, Martin seethed as Paramor racked up 26 weeks at No 1 during 1962.

The midfielder Chris Brunt had to be restrained by stewards after being hit just below the eye by what photographs suggested was a 50p coin thrown from a densely packed away end as he attempted to present his shirt to a young fan in the wake of West Brom's FA Cup humbling at the hands of comparatively lowly Reading.

Ephrin type-A receptor 2 is a cell surface receptor of the erythropoietin-producing hepatocellular (Eph) tyrosine kinases receptor family and is reported to be overexpressed in various types of cancer, while being comparatively lowly expressed in normal tissues (Pasquale, 2010; Tandon et al, 2011; Udayakumar et al, 2011).

It still has a comparatively minor role.

That was a comparatively benign forecast.