Sentence examples for a modest stage from inspiring English sources

Maybe up on a modest stage, for half-hour periods, with five minutes off for autographs.

The two men's wives, Laura Bush and Lynne Cheney, shared a modest stage with them.

A modest stage in the rear features renegade local acts like Chelsea Wolfe, Ringworm and Mutilation Rites.

When the band -- in this case, Primary Colours, a New York City trio -- came out, it took its place on a modest stage so close to the audience they could practically shake hands.

Back in early September, in a hot, dusty dog park on the east side of Portland, a few hundred people gathered around a modest stage to listen to two men called Andy.

Zebulon, a cozy, poorly lit bar-cafe in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, has a modest stage tucked against the back wall on which, most nights, a few singer-songwriters or small bands give it their all in exchange for their share of the tip basket.

But where that was a modest staging, this will be an extravaganza that will likely hark back to their legendary shows at the Hollywood Bowl and elsewhere.

Such small gene effects would, in a GWAS discovery experiment comprising 20K cases and 20K controls, be expected to have only a 5% probability of passing even a modest stage-1 (tentative discovery) threshold of P< 0.00001.

A game board is a more modest stage than the Himalayas or Formula One, but Raffi Khatchadourian's Profile of Falafel, the highest-ranked backgammon player in the world and a certifiable hustler, contains just as much drama: Unlike chess, backgammon is tactile, fast-moving, even loud, with checkers slammed down and tiny dice sounding like rattlesnakes as they traverse the board.

Jesse's low-key debut The Oscar-nominated actor Jesse Eisenberg has chosen a rather modest stage to make his New York debut as a playwright.

On a more modest stage and in more modest ways, that's what Mr. Bonelli does at Perbacco.