Sentence examples for modest especially from inspiring English sources

SOUND LEVEL -- Modest, especially relative to many Manhattan restaurants.

Her tax cut proposals are very modest, especially compared with those proposed by Mr. Lazio and other Republicans.

The seafood can be sublime and the prices extremely modest, especially compared with summer havens like Italy's Amalfi Coast or the French Riviera.

That said the movement remains small and their following away from home modest, especially given that the Clan Curva Nord refuse to accept the controversial Tessera del Tifoso (supports ID card), thus making them unable to attend away games.

As a result, the immediate budget savings will be pretty modest, especially if the White House succeeds in getting as part of the deal an extension in long-term unemployment benefits and at least part of the payroll tax cut.

Studies suggest that it generated at best about a 3 percent annual saving on running costs, which is modest, especially considering that running costs are typically a relatively small component of total program costs.

And indeed, Cattelan lives a strangely modest life, especially for an artist at the very top of the international pecking order.

So I approached the unabashedly retro '05 model with modest expectations, especially since I had found some of Ford's resurrected icons, like the last Thunderbird, to have more style than substance.

He also gave the impression of modest decorum, especially in the concert's first half, featuring a succession of appealing but rather indistinct post-bop tunes in the Wayne Shorter vein.

I found myself hitting the ball well by my modest standards, especially nice after a tough workweek.

"Halloween," directed by David Gordon Green, slid a relatively modest 58percentt — especially good for a horror release — after setting a record for an October debut last weekend.