Sentence examples for modest gesture from inspiring English sources

But that modest gesture was more than undone just before the shootings.

It's a modest gesture alongside the pain and calamity that climate change is already wreaking.

Coming after nearly a decade of cold war hostilities, the modest gesture ushered in an extraordinary new relationship.

Ms. Packer seems more interested in self-worth and self-awareness as evidenced in her painting "Modest Gesture" (1998).

Like so much else in his "Ring," conducted by Kent Nagano at the Bavarian State Opera here, it is a simple, modest gesture.

Her bare torso covered with a red blouse, the subject of "Modest Gesture" looks more like a deer frozen by oncoming headlights than a sexual being.

In concrete terms, those visits produced only modest gestures and assurances.

The only worse approach would be to retreat to modest gestures in an effort to win Republican acquiescence.

Thanks to these modest gestures, each bite became a meditation on the ancient compatibilities of salt, fish, lemon and oil, with scant resemblance to the sardines pried from the gridlock of a can.

As a result, its response to the violence in Cairo and Alexandria has been haphazard and fallen back on modest gestures, like withholding the F-16's, which may not be that effective in dealing with a country that is undergoing a wrenching upheaval.

XXXXXXXXXXXX speculated that the modest gestures which Tunisia had made in the run-up to the WSIS -- allowing access to banned websites, for instance -- would evaporate as soon as the WSIS had ended, with the GoT likely to crack down on the hunger strikers as well.