Sentence examples for modest book from inspiring English sources

"We live off of very modest book royalties.

Nevertheless, this modest book is an invaluable reminder of the lost virtues of bipartisan judicial restraint.

In little over a hundred pages, this modest book provides an entry to an entire world.

Mr. Jacques said he was stunned when they offered a modest book contract totaling little more than $4,000.

"Four in All," a modest book in size and appearance, is a big book on just such a theme.

Right now, fees are laid out on a set schedule whose minimum rates are often higher than a modest book can support.

STANDING side by side in their modest, book-filled Manhattan apartment, Tony Kushner and Mark Harris may look like brothers, but they have very different personalities.

After haggling with her businesslike pimp, chatting with a friend and arguing on the phone with her jealous boyfriend, Akiko reluctantly sets off to meet a client, an elderly, widowed scholar who lives in a modest, book-cluttered apartment just outside the city.

More recently, Mr. Koren has been known as a maker of deceptively modest books about deceptively modest subjects (raking leaves, arranging objects).

At its center are 52 modest books, made at the rate of one a week over a year.

Like the novels of Zadie Smith or the empire of Oprah Winfrey, these comparatively modest books about two comedians posit the existence of a post-racist world, if only in the shape of an audience to receive them.