Sentence examples for comparison modest from inspiring English sources

Rorem's scores seem, by comparison, modest and naïve, but this description applies only to their surface, and not to their emotional or psychological import.

The petition that the department filed, in October, was, by comparison, quite modest; yet the arguments that it put forward strongly echoed those made by Reback.

The odds ratio of prostate cancer in the highest quartile compared with the lowest quartile was very high (OR=31 95% CI: 10 92), demonstrating by comparison the modest association with IGF-1, in spite of it being statistically significant.

The number of comparisons was modest and a significance level of 5% was selected.

Jacques, by comparison, is a modest $9.

In comparison "Ode" feels modest and unburdened, delivering the most comfortably centered work of Mr. Mehldau's recent career.

It suffers in comparison with a modest, neatly pressed cake of bacalao in tomato sauce on white rice, with a cheery fried egg on top.

Although the number of markers shared between this study and that of Timusk et al. (2011) was relatively modest, comparison between the two maps was possible.

In comparison to its modest ability to activate PPARγ in transfection assays, TFZ induced adipogenesis at concentrations as low as 10 nM with corresponding increases in the induction of adipogenic gene expression.

By comparison, only a modest increase in detectable PrP was observed for equivalent WO4 concentrations, suggesting that PW11 may have greater contribution in the facile detection of PrP than WO4 by this method.

(Syme, given to more modest comparisons, finds one of his violet hues in a flesh-fly egg).