Sentence examples for modest artistic from inspiring English sources

B. R. Guest is the closest thing New York has to a major Hollywood studio turning out big-budget popular films with modest artistic goals.

This is a time of retrospectives often rummaging to gather films by directors of some discernible personality but only modest artistic inspiration, and of boxed sets celebrating similarly undistinguished names, but names nonetheless.

According to the short-story writer and critic Aamer Hussein, Jhabvala was the first to write in English about north India's urban, lower middle class, "people with small jobs and modest artistic aspirations, their lives often blighted with failure.

In the 19th century the company ranked high among European troupes (both Filippo Taglioni and Enrico Cecchetti were directors), but Poland's traumatic 20th-century wars and their consequences for the country have meant a low artistic profile on the dance front — and, for the most part, modest artistic ambitions.

That's why the good ones — the ones that pull more than a few threads from the underlying tangle and let them show through the shiny surface of simplification — take hold of the imagination in ways that defy their modest artistic merits.

Although Mr. LeWitt was making a modest living with his artistic skills, his own work was moribund.

If it's still available, consider house-cured gravlax, an artistic but modest tower that layers fresh corn and scallion, avocado and thinly sliced salmon, or meaty, finely grained beef cheeks braised to tenderness.

If these rates suggest a shift away from the artistic population and modest means that the East Village still evokes, a glance across the Bowery provides some context.

The Merovingians' artistic accomplishments were comparatively modest, but their art was an original and vital blending of barbarian and Mediterranean traditions, which continued to exert influence long after the end of the Merovingian dynasty.

One route would be to allow individuals a modest refundable tax credit -- an artistic freedom voucher (AFV) -- that would allow them to give $75-$75-$100ear to support creative work.

By training, his charges listen closely to one another's words and trust one another's artistic choices — no small feat in a field not known for modest egos.