Sentence examples for a modest but compelling from inspiring English sources

He has done so in a modest but compelling manner.

As a film experience, it is a modest but not immaterial accomplishment - a compelling, if strikingly uneven, political thriller.

From a modest but complicated task came a dramatic innovation.

A modest but perhaps workable idea.

Downwarren is a modest, but picturesque, example.

The floral paperweights of the 1970's, like "Cayenne Pepper," with its spiral stem echoing the circular shape, possess a modest yet compelling simplicity.

Refer back to Swift's A Modest Proposal, which was anything but modest.

It is a dense, but compelling, read.

It's a modest introduction, but a calculated one.

He was indeed a very modest, but very brilliant, guy.

It's not that television shows before and after haven't used every inch of the TV screen to tell compelling stories, but on a modest budget (i.e., the catering budget for your average Hollywood blockbuster), "Breaking Bad" quietly knitted together all those elements and rigorously used them to give even more depth, heft and meaning to its Everyman Gone Wrong story.