Sentence examples for modest name for from inspiring English sources

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

"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".

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 tour, which is to move to Town Hall in Manhattan on Tuesday and Wednesday, his stand-up debut in the States, is actually a return to something: Mr. Merchant had made a modest name for himself on the stand-up comedy circuit before meeting Mr. Gervais in 1997.

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.

Last week the show grossed $693,100, or about 53 percent of the maximum possible amount – a modest figure for a play starring a major Hollywood name.

Remember, George W. Bush's original name for his Global War on Terror was to be the less-than-modest Operation Infinite Justice. .

The Outdoor Life Network is a relatively modest sports channel that carries no major sports, and has not contemplated renaming itself something silly like Spike TV (the new name for TNN).

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

He has a modest team handball stadium named for him in the suburb of Créteil.