Sentence examples for a sort of modest from inspiring English sources
Like Richard Pryor, Miss Tomlin is a great, edgy, idiosyncratic performer who demands special treatment to succeed on film, as she did in Robert Altman's "Nashville" and Robert Benton's "The Late Show". Playing a more or less commonplace character, she tends to fade into a sort of modest blankness.
Now Marco Rubio and Chris Coons are here because they made a pony that is some sort of modest jobs bill, maybe someone wants to vote on it?
Analysts, who prefer to accept a company's definition of how to measure income, had estimated a profit of 9 cents, providing the sort of modest surprise that is hardly surprising for Internet companies.
In Irvington, Buon Gusto, on a winding back street in a quiet residential section of town, is just that sort of modest place.
Mr. Brandt agreed that some sort of modest raise could be justified — an independent commission recommended a 12percentt increase several years ago — but said the 123 percent rise, with additional increases pegged to inflation, was "problematic".
But how was I meant to write and direct a full-length feature film about the First World War on the sort of modest budget that is considered the norm for independent European films?
That if you are campaigning against a President Jeb Bush or a President Marco Rubio who passed a very traditional, modest, middle-class tax cut and who says the right things about economic inequality and pursues sort of modest tinkering to Nafta, I think Democrats probably do feel a little bit more trepidation about campaigning on a really daring, disruptive, relatively far-left agenda.
"He was very ordinary, sort of modest," he said.
But that sort of modest, realistic goal doesn't appear to appeal to the new owners.
"The underlying momentum still seems to be some sort of modest slowdown in the economy".
