Sentence examples for modest instrument from inspiring English sources

A modest instrument, it tends to cede glamour and virtuosity to the showier violin and cello.

Galileo used his modest instrument to explore such celestial phenomena as the valleys and mountains of the Moon, the phases of Venus, and the four largest Jovian satellites, which had never been systematically observed before.

The real challenge may well be convincing the NSF reviewers that students can benefit from such a modest instrument.

Arrangements were also a balancing act, employing modest instruments that would not overdramatize the songs.

Mr. Selvaganesh (the son of Shakti's original percussionist, T. H. Vikku Vinayakram) played seemingly modest instruments -- ghatam (clay jug), mridangam (two-headed drum) and kanjira (tambourine) -- to subdivide and multiply the beat in mercurial crescendos.

Part of the appeal is that the group — eight of them, all singing and playing the ukulele — extracts more than seems humanly possible from so small and so modest an instrument, with its four little strings.

Tommy Lee Jones landed with grace and gravitas in two movies; Viggo Mortensen transformed himself into a Russian gangster; Johnny Depp used a modest singing instrument to completely sell a role; George Clooney played "less than," tamping down his star power to portray a guy being rubbed out by his own choices; and Daniel Day-Lewis managed to embody the dark heart of capitalism.

They may be poor and their instruments modest, but what expressive joy and conviction!

In the midst of the current economic chaos, our faith in that most modest of financial instruments — the dollar bill — has remained unchanged.

It was the late 1990s and Mr. Vedder was in Hawaii, decompressing after a tour with his band, Pearl Jam, when one of those modest, four-stringed instruments caught his eye in an out-of-the-way drugstore.

The vast majority of items exceeded standard cut-offs for acceptable reliability, with only modest variation among instruments.