Sentence examples for in its modest from inspiring English sources

"Firewalker" succeeds in its modest and disarming aims finally because its people, who include Sonny Latham's lethal Neo-Aztec warrior and John Rhys-Davies' megalomaniacal adventurer, seem real even when they're caught up in the most shameless hokum.

The celebrity interview I remember best was my first, and it must be that I remember it best because it was, in its modest way, a Titanic.

It doesn't approach the complexity or panache of Martin Scorsese's movie about Mr. Dylan or Jonathan Demme's films about Mr. Young, but in its modest way it's a fitting tribute to an album meant to be lean, angry and unadorned.

"In its modest way it's a fitting tribute to an album meant to be lean, angry and unadorned," Mike Hale wrote in The Times in reviewing the film when it was shown on HBO two years ago.

(And really, who is against higher standards and better education?) The failure of this otherwise lucid, engaging documentary is in its modest ambition: it offers only glancing references to a profound, underlying issue it is easier to ignore: how much the battle over school choice is really about race and class.

It's a quick, charming one-off from some talented people with a good eye and a sharp sense of humor, and in its modest way it widens the possibilities for communicating inside and outside a setting like SXSW.

Lovingly directed by Ms. Gabbert, it is certainly a gem, small and, in its very modest way, perfect of its kind.

Sitting primly in its own modest grounds in the small village of Dodford, the cottage is surrounded by countryside beneath the Clent Hills.

"In its pilot, it achieved its modest goals without leaning too far into pompousness...or slicing off too much ham".

With little competition, it could reap $5 billion in sales despite its modest effectiveness, analysts say.

In addition to its modest insulin-sensitizing properties, metformin has been shown in an animal model to inhibit cardiac hypertrophy [ 173].