Sentence examples for modest name from inspiring English sources

"Away" is a modest name for a book as gloriously transporting as Amy Bloom's new novel.

For "Minimal Knowledge," the pair attracted a couple of actors with some modest name recognition.

For his, er, understated new movie Biutiful, Mexican director Alejándro González Iñárritu seems to have undergone a modest name change.

"The Hill Station" begins with a lecture in Bombay given by Elizabeth Dinakar, who has "made a modest name for herself in the infectious diarrheas".

If the wine's modest name itself is not an eye-catcher, a nostalgic photograph on the label showing a farmer wielding a hand plow -- recalling the region's fading potato-growing days -- is arresting.

I thought about Moore's remarks about Thatcher's tactical abrading of the BBC when I met Rob Wilson, the Conservative MP for Reading East, who, in his single-minded pursuit of the organisation, has made a modest name for himself.

The modest name-dropper – Hugh Walpole's kind – drops names because he thinks they are of people more interesting than himself.

Now comes a more modest proposition: Name 10 restaurants abroad that would be worth boarding a plane to visit, even in these fraught days.

More distressingly, it has led to a wave of construction for which gentrification is too modest a name.

The ground floor had long been occupied by a modest diner named George's.

This mysterious little play reveals an unassuming, modest gentleman named Serge staging low-tech spectacles in his cluttered basement for an audience that could fit inside a bathroom.