Sentence examples for modest acclaim from inspiring English sources

Their album Tin Machine (1989) and tour earned a mixture of modest acclaim and howls of outrage.

One, however, "A Meaningful Life," originally published in 1971, was praised a few years ago in an essay by a younger Brooklyn novelist, Jonathan Lethem, and the attention led to its being reissued, to modest acclaim, in 2009.

(Anderson) ★ The Vaselines (Thursday) A favorite group of Kurt Cobain's — though less preferred by any chauvinists who heard their castrating cover of Divine's "You Think You're a Man" — the Vaselines enjoyed modest acclaim in their native Scotland before disbanding at the end of the 1980s.

Yunhe then antagonizes her grandfather by running away to join a theater troupe, and wins modest acclaim when the leading lady becomes ill and she takes over the role because she is the only other actress who has memorized all the lines.

Beyond an array of air combat sims, the first world war has been comparatively under-explored in video games – although Verdun, a first-person military game set during the battle of Verdun, launched on PC last year to modest critical acclaim.

The tracks he cranked out in the basement earned him modest local acclaim.

Such enthusiasm brought a British publisher in 1957, acclaim and modest sales.

The twin victories of critical acclaim and (modest) financial success went to some of the smaller films.In part, Hollywood created its own difficult situation.

But here was Courier to make the case that Davis Cup memories, though they offer no widespread acclaim and modest monetary reward, are essentially priceless.

After a punishing decade for the music industry, the voters of the Recording Academy, the organization that bestows the awards, reversed its recent trend of showering acclaim on modest sellers, sticking instead to the biggest names in entertainment.

"Invariably something would have been built there, but here is a building that was critically acclaimed architecturally, modest in size and scale and not gaudy, facing a consolidated sanitation garage".