Sentence examples for modest affair from inspiring English sources

It was a deliberately modest affair.

AS POPULAR insurrections go, it is a modest affair.

It had been a comparatively modest affair for this neighborhood.

Piece by piece it's a modest affair, but as an ensemble it's vibrant.

A visitor goes to the museum first, which is a modest affair.

I know what she meant, for the show is a modest affair.

"It was an incredibly modest affair -- just Meredith and her voice," she recalled.

Literary stardom in Greenland, Korneliussen told me, is ultimately a modest affair.

The hint of poignancy in this modest affair wasn't simply a matter of the setting.

Compared with commercial radio, the world of public radio is a modest affair.

A fair, by the market cross in the centre of the town yesterday, was an altogether more modest affair.