Sentence examples for a modest critical from inspiring English sources

In the late 1990's, he had a modest critical success with his own Farsi-language local cable talk show -- and that flipped the switches in his mind that shut down his cold reason and turned on the steam.

After weeks of offering little but praise for Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, Michael R. Bloomberg, the Republican mayoral candidate, sent a modest critical punch in the mayor's direction yesterday, saying that Mr. Giuliani was wrong in 1995 to have ousted Yasir Arafat from a concert for world leaders at Lincoln Center.

Despite the unpopularity of this volte face, Dmytryk managed to get work on a small independent film, Mutiny (1951), and began a four-film relationship with producer Stanley Kramer: three were modest critical successes, and they led to Dmytryk's breakthrough into A-films with a version of The Caine Mutiny (1953), starring Humphrey Bogart.

Less noticed and perhaps more important is that Obama's September gains in voter preference match a modest but critical boost in his job approval ratings, as Gallup reported on Thursday.

In the 70s, he would publish a total of six stylistically rigorous and tonally bleak novels to modest critical success, but it was only in the 80s, in the wake of a Guggenheim fellowship spent in Greece, that DeLillo would fully come into his own as an artist, stepping out of relative obscurity to become one of the primary figures in American fiction.

Beyond an array of air combat sims, the first world war has been comparatively under-explored in video games – although Verdun, a first-person military game set during the battle of Verdun, launched on PC last year to modest critical acclaim.

The details of this relationship prompt arduous contention and debate in the context of traditional humanitarian coordination mechanisms, such as the UN cluster system (Harvard Humanitarian Initiative 2011; Sandvik et al. 2014; McDonald 2016), and to a modest degree, in critical commentary on the application of humanitarian technology (Sandvik et al. 2017).

Mr. Porter even achieved a modest degree of commercial and critical success, especially in Hartford, where in the late 1870s he set up a studio and began showing in local exhibitions and galleries.

This study has demonstrated that acute asthma represents a modest burden of work on critical care units in England and Wales when compared to diseases such as pneumonia (5.9%).

Her debut album, "Arular" (2005), sold a modest 129,000 copies but was a critical jackpot, both in the mainstream press and the blogosphere.

A critical favorite and a modest box-office success, the film was also often cited, favorably, as exemplifying a trend among the studios to experiment with the kind of harder-edged, character-driven stories more commonly seen in independent films.