Sentence examples for deliberately modest from inspiring English sources

It was a deliberately modest affair.

Mr. Frayn's play seems deliberately modest, even as a comedy about journalists.

Its rhythms are those of daily life, and its scale is deliberately modest.

Mr. Sobel has kept the production deliberately modest, imposing no overarching idea.

Many of the venues are deliberately modest in scale and have been grouped together to minimize their environmental footprint.

That would at least mean that Olympic manager Stephen Park's target of four medals from Weymouth – seemingly set deliberately modest – will be achieved.

Deliberately low profile, low key.

Is a new generation of Austin film artists in danger of placing too much cultural baggage on the shoulders of a modest, deliberately rough-around the-edges effort?

During the first campaign for the Panthéon, where the remains of towering French figures like Victor Hugo and Alexandre Dumas are interred in the Latin Quarter, officials deliberately set a modest initial fund-raising goal of $6,500 to avoid intimidating donors.

As these three go about the serious matter of unmasking the teacher and confronting their own futures, their mature steps toward honesty frequently descend to the level of: "You use cover-up to hide your acne and think people can't tell!" Everything about "Speech & Debate" is deliberately, and winningly, modest.

We have deliberately chosen more modest levels of drug distribution, which might be achievable in a public health emergency.