Sentence examples for a modest reputation from inspiring English sources

In her twenties she was an expert horsewoman, travelled abroad in luxury and won a modest reputation as a wit in Paris and London.

In the 1950s and '60s Mr. Kastle enjoyed a modest reputation as a composer of melodic, romantic operas and as a musical director of works for the stage.

The company that he took over in 2012 had a modest reputation and a lacklustre repertory, and Li is unselfconsciously proud of all he has achieved.

"Their crime," he states blandly, "was that they were 'stinking scientific authorities' who enjoyed a modest reputation on a provincial scale".

Adventure sports For anyone looking for a more extreme way of appreciating the view, Balaton is acquiring a modest reputation for adventure sports.

I've become involved in mental-health activism, gained a modest reputation as a writer, and, most surreally, had a BBC Radio 4 play adapted from it.

Answering the phone in Little Rock, Ark., in January 1994 was Daniel M. Traylor, a lawyer of modest reputation, and calling him was a friend of Paula Jones, who was upset about a story in The American Spectator that falsely, in her view, described a past encounter with then-Governor Clinton of Arkansas.

It was only after she succeeded her father and her husband as president and later publisher of The Washington Post, a newspaper with a modest circulation and more modest reputation, that it moved into the front rank of American newspapers, reaching new heights when its unrelenting reporting of the Watergate scandal contributed to the resignation of President Richard M. Nixon in 1974.

Poisoned Pen has smartly positioned itself as a small publishing house where authors of modest reputation are always welcome — so long as they have a strong regional voice.

And then there is the Byrd, as in Paul, the veteran Cleveland right-hander of modest reputation who, to a considerable amount of surprise, has shut down the Yankees and Red Sox in successive postseason starts.

Varoufakis, a mathematical economist with a modest academic reputation, had become a popular writer in Greece.