Sentence examples for doing a modest from inspiring English sources

CHICAGO -- Dinner theater, that derided and mostly moribund genre, is making an unlikely comeback at the Lookingglass Theater here, where one of this city's most renowned chefs, Rick Bayless, is preparing a savory meal onstage, and doing a modest bit of acting in a modest little comedy too.

The task force also suggests doing a modest number of imaging tests, such as ultrasounds for abdominal aortic aneurysms in high-risk men (65- to 75-year-olds who have ever smoked), mammograms and bone density tests for women over 65, and colonoscopies for people over 50.

Say you pull up behind a cruising German sedan doing a modest 95 mph.

Across the road from Man Mo, the antique dealers and bric-à-brac sellers of Cat Street are doing a modest trade.

Instead of doing something prudent -- like renting a Ring production or doing a modest one of their own -- the Los Angeles Opera went out and spent a jaw-dropping $30,000,000 on Achim Freyer's new production.

As his strength grew, so did a modest bucket list.

So why does a modest and short Post story about the health reform law become a blockbuster online?

You're seeking only to do a modest bit of good, and thus you can't go wrong either way.

The handful of fund houses with well-developed marketing skills Jardine Fleming, Schroders, Fidelity, Templeton are able to do a modest business selling funds direct to retail customers.

Although this is her first major British building, Hadid did do a modest Maggie's Centre in Kirkcaldy and a Brixton school.

The director John Doyle has done a modest, sturdy, and altogether wonderful job with this revival of the composer Marc Blitzstein's rousing and melancholy play with music, which details how power taints the needy and the cynical alike.