Sentence examples for modest drama from inspiring English sources

The conflict here isn't very exemplary or exciting, even by modest drama standards.

Spain's dramatic election result – a hung parliament and a roughly equal split between left and rightwing parties – was followed by only modest drama in financial markets.

That distinction goes to "Duet," a modest drama about an imagined meeting between Sarah Bernhardt and Eleonora Duse by Otho Eskin, a former diplomat making his New York debut as a playwright.

It's a modest drama with relatively few surprises, but that's not to say it is predictable or rote, as it lives or dies on the excellence of its leads – and Ben Kingsley and Patricia Clarkson are rarely anything but brilliant.

They played siblings who reconnect after years apart and, thanks to the history between the pair off-screen, there's a genuine lived-in chemistry that brings an added dimension to the modest drama.

He is at the heart of two brief moments of clarity and modest drama: in one, Rakel (Monique Vukovic) tries to show Jason what it's like to lug around breasts.

But life does not stop, so the modest dramas of the small-claims courts are piling up: neighbor disputes, battles over bedbugs, and grudge matches that spill out into the hallways.

Frankcom's intervention is, arguably, a bit over the top for a play that still shows its origins as a modest, studio drama whose lack of pretension was part of its charm.

"Yohen," which opens the 30th season of the Pan Asian Repertory Theater, is a modest, touching drama, loaded with meaning.

Some cramped staging may reflect a lack of resources, but Mr. Xie's technical assurance and the overall level of the acting are the equal of at least a modest Hollywood drama of the 1950s or '60s.

(Holden) 'A THOUSAND YEARS OF GOOD PRAYERS' (No rating, 1 23, in Mandarin, English and Farsi) This modest, middlebrow drama from the director Wayne Wang is a pleasantly unrushed study of the ties that bind a Chinese father to his American daughter, and the spaces — emotional and cultural — that keep them apart.