Sentence examples for modest nod from inspiring English sources

Fellini gave a modest nod.

In the end, the numbers revealed yesterday, while giving a modest nod to new fiscal realities, are a triumph of 1% strategic thinking – maintaining a military force for worst case and unlikely scenarios.

Sunlight spills down through big curved scooped openings near the top of the walls in a modest nod to Le Corbusier's chapel at Ronchamp, a masterpiece of high Modernism.

The White Star, Rainford Gardens A tiny Victorian pub in the same maze of warehouse backstreets as the Cavern, the White Star makes only a modest nod towards its Beatle history (the band drank here, as well as in the nearby Grapes).

This modest nod in the direction of Havana came on the heels of the administration's easing of travel restrictions for Cuban-Americans to visit the island.

Their hugs were tender and careful and their modest nods as they took their tiny gold gramophones spoke louder than, well, the very many old white men (Dave Grohl, Queens of the Stone Age, Nine Inch Nails and Lindsey Buckingham) who brought the show to an overdue end.

That Trump's budget is devoid of even modest nods to social welfare is not something that the administration is trying to hide.

Today, it only slowly dawns on most of the audience and remains a modest meta nod, rather than shocking.

The menu, which nods toward Spain, is modest.

Aloe Blacc played most of the album at Le Poisson Rouge on Thursday night, in a generally modest show with only the occasional sly nod to the present.

Rather I come, with a nod to Jonathan Swift, with a modest proposal for people to cut it a little slack.