Sentence examples for modest gestures from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

Here are highlights from the week so far -- which hopefully will prompt more federal leaders, at all agencies and levels, to realize that even modest gestures can have a big impact on their workforce.

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.

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

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).

I loved this modest gesture, so quiet and succinct, but for others the biggest love was for Steve McQueen's double-screen film in the British pavilion.