Sentence examples for modest presentation from inspiring English sources

This modest presentation of collages -- some from the 60's but most made recently -- and books reintroduces an artist worth getting to know better.

So it turns out that X can't exist, despite his modest presentation, without a wine cellar; whereas Y, so imperious in other ways, has a bedroom that doubles as an office.

The Design Museum in London held a retrospective of his work earlier this year, with some 800 pairs of shoes (a fraction of the 15,000 styles he estimates he has designed since the early 1970's), and Anna Wintour, the editor in chief of Vogue, suggested he do a more modest presentation in New York, with about 250 styles.

We have a modest presentation, we don't have big projections or giant bubbles that we run around in or any of the things that people fill stages up with.

A fairer discussion of earlier results and a more modest presentation of the new results are in place.

The emphasis is instead on goofy pageantry (a long chorus line of nuns or cross-dressed men — take your choice — in increasingly outrageous costumes) or more modest presentations that treat musicals with an emotional intimacy usually reserved for drama.

After a period of more modest presentations by the networks, spectacle is back, Amy Chozick writes, as "the big four broadcast networks — ABC, CBS, Fox and NBC — face more competition than ever.

His recipes marked a change from the style of cookery known in the Middle Ages, to new techniques aimed at creating somewhat lighter dishes, and more modest presentations of pies as individual pastries and turnovers.

Yet within a scant three months there opened one show after another — all modest in presentation, but fierce in impact — that kept raising not only the neighborhood's intelligence quotient but its emotion quotient: "Exit the King," "God of Carnage," "Hair," "Joe Turner's Come and Gone," "Mary Stuart," "Next to Normal," "The Norman Conquests," "reasons to be pretty" and "Waiting for Godot".

Nor is spirituality a word you associate nowadays with the Salzburg Festival, a once-modest summer presentation of classical music and theater founded in 1920 by the playwright Hugo von Hofmannsthal, the composer Richard Strauss and others, now grown huge and proud.

Was this modest 90-minute presentation emblematic of what is to come in City Opera's downsized future?