Sentence examples for modest reviews from inspiring English sources

It has been running since February to modest reviews — "an agreeable drama," The New York Times called it — and one day last spring Ray Anderson, the N.F.L.'s executive vice president for football operations, was walking after dinner with his wife, Buffie, passed by the theater and decided to buy tickets.

The play has received modest reviews.

A.M. received modest reviews from critics.

The album was met with modest reviews though it would rank thirty-fourth in the Village Voice's 1995 Pazz & Jop critics poll.

The play received modest reviews, including criticism for a lack of inside stories about The Simpsons, and its "overweeningly upbeat" tone.

The latter, about his most known poem and the trial about the work, premiered at the Berlin Film Festival and earned modest reviews.

Even Milburn's modest review has excited the right's usual knee-jerk reaction, with accusations of "dumbing down" and "social engineering".

In an email to senior managers today, Thompson said: "The directors and I discussed this very carefully before concluding it was not appropriate to award an increase in pay or award a bonus this year to the senior managers of the organisation – but that we should continue with a modest pay review for the majority of the BBC's employees.

In spite of the relatively modest peer-review literature pool available on the topic of post-mined land revegetation in India, there is still a remarkably extensive reporting of plant species (n = 245 sp).

"Brighton Beach Memoirs" opened last Sunday to a mix of modest and positive reviews, but Emanuel Azenberg, the lead producer, had said that rave reviews would be essential to improve box office receipts.

Levi's publisher Franco Antonicelli did his best, but "If This Is a Man" received only a modest number of reviews and sold a mere 1,500 copies.