Sentence examples for modest footnote to from inspiring English sources

I have only one modest footnote to offer.

LONDON — The 19th-century naturalist Charles Darwin was so eminent a scientist that some 120 species, an Australian city and a mountain in the Andes have been named in his honor, but among his other accomplishments is a modest footnote in design history for an unsung contribution to furniture design.

Had he stopped at works like the portraits of Blanche Périvier or Yvonne Géraud, the artist would barely have earned a modest footnote in the history of 20th-century painting.

Despite the natural glory of the game-winning catch, Streets remained a modest footnote in the press and humble with his friends.

As an interesting footnote to our modest hero's tale of good luck, it later emerged that he actually should have won a lot more – £2,153,100 more, to be precise, as the reported odds against his accumulator being landed were 63,062-1, buthehe small print regarding maximum pay-outs in the terms and conditions of bookmakers Bet365, with whom he placed the bet, meant he "only" pocketed £1m.

Here's an even stranger footnote to the history-is-stranger-than-satire factoid we noted Thursday regarding an Alaskan lawmaker's modest proposal to have the federal government take over Central Park, which turns out to have been suggested with a straight face back in the dismal '70s.

("We became the footnote to the footnote," Trubek told me).

Here, it became a footnote to history.

Another ironic footnote to the sovereignty debate.

Call it a footnote to two amazingly formidable careers.

Mine is a tiny footnote to that great tale.