Sentence examples for modest affair for from inspiring English sources

It had been a comparatively modest affair for this neighborhood.

Mr. Bubenicek's "Toccata" is an entirely more modest affair, for seven dance soloists and four instrumental players.

The kickoff to the daily double was a modest affair for maiden claimers with a purse of $15,000, but a colt he owned, Musashi, was entered.

Mr. Boughton, a native of England steeped in traditional productions of "Messiah," said he was hoping to fashion something both close in scale to Handel's original staging — a modest affair in Dublin — and suitable for the places where his orchestra will be appearing.

SHANGHAI – Christie's held its first auction in mainland China Thursday, a modest affair by international standards that brought $24.9 million for 39 paintings, sculpture, jewelry, watches, and wine.

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

The mosque, which is in a ramshackle building on Central Avenue less than a mile from the Capitol, is a modest affair that draws a couple of hundred faithful for Friday prayers.

But for a study with such grand ambitions, it is a modest affair — and there is some doubt that the group is in a position to make huge breakthroughs.

It was a deliberately modest affair.

AS POPULAR insurrections go, it is a modest affair.

FOR its first 25 years, the polite thing to call the annual summer writer's conference at Southampton College was "a modest affair".