Sentence examples for modest picture from inspiring English sources

It's a modest picture, graceful and wry and quickened from time to time by nicely choreographed set pieces of physical comedy.

Every so often, a modest picture from an obscure place makes a big splash in the relatively small international art-film pond.

Still, this show has interesting moments, including the Chapman Brothers' hilariously offensive video starring two porn actresses and a mannequin's head; Kiki Seror's illuminated, digitally generated sex-chat text; Andres Serrano's portrait of a naked woman and her bovine object of desire; and a modest picture of a woman in a car by the usually over-the-top David LaChapelle Johnsonn).

His modest pictures are refreshing documents of an uneasy time, rich in incident and humanity.

These are not modest pictures, in the sense that they are neither naive nor accidental.

'Where's the rest of it?' " The property eventually sold after she put her own, more modest, pictures back up on the Web site.

He has found his niche, making modest pictures for an audience of fans, and he displays no desire to expand upon that.

But his serious, enduring reputation rests on the subtler, more modest pictures - horror flicks, westerns, thrillers, melodramas, sci-fi - he made in the 1940s and 1950s, and on his role as editor on Welles's Citizen Kane and The Magnificent Ambersons.

The small picture "is such a modest thing" with "an extreme modesty of scale" and "not a huge amount of bravado".

A modest superhero picture may sound like a contradiction in terms, but really it is a welcome respite.

She learned her shtick in a series of modest little pictures shot at Twickenham studios in the 1930s.