Sentence examples for modest flashes from inspiring English sources

There were modest flashes of hip-hop, from acts like the Roots, which imbued its set with jazzy abstraction, and the Somali rapper K'naan, who spent much of his set unspooling self-affirmative rhymes.

As he talks, I'm looking at him – T-shirt, jeans, trainers, gold Rolex, but not very flash, modest gold chain tucked into the T-shirt.

Adequate shutter speed (this is rarely a problem with an adjustable camera; speeds over 1/500 second are more for using wide apertures in daylight for small depth of field; high flash-sync speeds are mostly for using fill-flash of modest power in daylight by limiting the amount of ambient light against which the very fast electric flash must balance).

The researchers did find that soy foods, high in phytoestrogens like isoflavones, offer modest benefit for hot flashes.

While the study had a strong placebo effect, she said she still thought the herbal supplement had a "modest effect on hot flashes".

"But I have the ring now" -- she flashed a modest diamond -- "so I guess I'm off the shelf".

To be fair, nobody expected Santorum to get any traction in this race (there's a reason I barely wrote about him for much of the campaign), and the mere fact that he's still standing while the Perrys and Bachmanns and Cains have been ushered offstage represents a modest victory for substance over flash.

Yet in discussing Europe -- whose problems loom as the single largest risk to an American economy that has been flashing signs of modest improvement -- Geithner reinforced the consensus view that the future is now colored in austerity.

Along the way, the lights in the pedestals had flashed various colors, and modest projections were shown on the Guggenheim's white-walled ramp.

These and many more of nature's mysteries are unraveled in Eisner's inimitable style -- charmingly modest, brimming with enthusiasm and shot with flashes of endearing naïveté.

Importantly, non-hormonal agents have only modest activity in the treatment of hot flashes and have not been found to be as effective as hormonal therapy [ 19].