Sentence examples for modest scale and from inspiring English sources

This makes sense, given the restaurant's modest scale and commitment to low prices.

But, on a more modest scale, and working in a different register, "Better Call Saul" may reflect that show's influence.

But even with setbacks like these, hotels continue to build condos on a more modest scale, and convert existing rooms for ownership.

In part this is simply because of the modest scale and cost of the island project -- about $200,000, compared with the $21 million said to have been paid to create "The Gates".

But rather than try to rival those artists with bombastic, big-scale pictures of tremendous mountains, terrific storms and exotic climes, he favored a comparatively modest scale and relatively peaceful, close-to-home subjects.

Working on a modest scale, and aided by the fall-gray chill of Giles Nuttgens's cinematography, Mr. Mackenzie does a remarkable job of making you believe that you're seeing the whole world.

Current developments are considered to be more modest or small scale and need to address more local issues due to the lack of support from higher levels.

Painters like Jim Nutt, Gladys Nilsson, Roger Brown and others, who came to be known as the Chicago Imagists, favored psychologically heated, mordantly humorous imagery, modest scale, careful craftsmanship and eccentric styles inspired by Outsider art, low-brow magazines, comics and Japanese woodblock printing.

The program started on a modest scale in 1988 and has continued through 10 governments of various political stripes.

For me, on my modest scale, a gallon and half fills an eight-ounce container with pure grey salt.

Raman is an environmentalist on a modest scale, planting trees and offering to compost the flowers left by worshippers at the Golden Temple, the most important temple in the city — an offer that the priests had declined.