Sentence examples for modest and positive from inspiring English sources

"Brighton Beach Memoirs" opened last Sunday to a mix of modest and positive reviews, but Emanuel Azenberg, the lead producer, had said that rave reviews would be essential to improve box office receipts.

Taken on its own, the number is a modest and positive gain — and far more fruitful than automakers Ford, GM and Fiat Chrysler.

The town priest (Jim Norton) grumbles amusingly when his parishioners do the Charleston and the Shim Sham to Jimmy's jazz records there, but otherwise its programme of activities appears to be so modest and positive that it seems absurd for anyone to object.

In relation to protein ingestion and its association with muscle mass, the study found a modest and positive association between dietary protein intake and appendicular skeletal muscle mass (P < 0.05, Figure 1).

The modest demands and positive approach designed to keep the UK in the EU is not what they want at all.

Taken together, our data indicate a modest and transient positive effect of PVL in the acute phase of bacteremia, thereby providing evidence that PVL contributes to CA-MRSA pathogenesis.

The A1C test had low sensitivity and modest positive and negative predictive values, although it had a high specificity.

However, the PSA test has only modest diagnostic specificity and positive predictive value for prostate cancer detection at commonly used cut-points.

ABIDING demonstrated that use of oscillometric devices by general practice nurses to determine ABI and therefore the presence of PAD had high specificity (92%) and negative predictive value (90%), good accuracy (84%) but modest sensitivity (62%) and positive predictive value (67%).

The results for mathematics contrast with the positive effects found in Bui (2014) for one grade (fifth grade) and one school district in the Southwest U.S. Bui (2014) also finds a modest and statistically insignificant positive effect on reading test scores.

However, overall these differences were modest, and the sensitivities and positive predictive values were low suggesting that the clinical utility of these markers is limited.