The phrase "and a modest box" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing an object or item that is small or simple in size or design.
Example: "She opened the cupboard to find a modest box containing her childhood memories."
Alternatives: "and a simple container" or "and a small package".
Also in 1933 Whale directed the romantic comedy By Candlelight which gained good reviews and was a modest box office hit.
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.
It was released on April 22, 2011 and received mixed critical reviews, but was a modest box office success.
A HALF-CENTURY ago, a guy given a watch for the holidays would have torn off the wrapping paper to find a modest box containing a timepiece about the size of a quarter.
The irony here is that if the text of "Tilt" were a building, it would be a modest box full of plain, rectangular rooms joined by unremarkable halls.
There was the 2002 documentary Comedian; and there was 2007's Bee Movie, a modest box-office success, which Seinfeld co-wrote and produced, and in which he voiced the lead role of a bee outraged to learn that humans are stealing honey.
It serves as a welcome reintroduction to some of Farley's best moments as a performer, but you can't help but notice that Chase was ultimately correct: Farley, in his brief life, turned in just a handful of classic sketches and one very funny movie ("Tommy Boy," a modest box-office hit turned cable-TV classic).
It was a modest box-office success and helped Haysbert win supporting roles in a succession of high-profile films: he was one of Robert De Niro's crew in Heat, Whitney Houston's married lover in Waiting to Exhale and, most recently, the LA political minder in Gurinder Chadha's What's Cooking.
Nevertheless, the film emerged as a modest box-office success, and today it remains some of the most interesting work by its three leading men (plus it has an incredible cameo by Robin Williams).
It achieved a modest box-office showing — just north of $12 million — but it remains an undeniable cult classic.
