Sentence examples for modest small from inspiring English sources

Partly, it's the houses, a terrifically appealing mix of stately and modest, small and medium and big, very old and just plain old.

Some critics, including Agnes, have made much of William de Mille's supposedly modest small d and Cecil DeMille's apparently grandiose large D, but it was a question of what would work on the movie screen.

A seemingly well-blended demographic mix of rental-owner residential with modest small businesses evolved.

It was one of about a hundred Usonian houses Frank Lloyd Wright designed for everyday folks -- modest, small homes constructed of inexpensive materials.

But anybody can find a window sill that will host a modest small pot of one or two herbs -- try parsley, basil or oregano.

Adjusted odds ratios on individual-level variables did not change significantly when area-level variables were added to the model, and the models containing both individual- and area-level variables were better fit (LR test, p<0.001), though the change in the predictive power of the model was very modest (small changes in C-statistics).

The Series has grown from a modest small-town event into a nationally televised 12-day festival of baseball.

By now, Mr. Sprecher, an engineer with modest small-town roots and a reputation for seeing around technological corners, has gotten a little testy about the "unregulated" label.

The glossy, big-city world of "Gossip Girl" is far afield of the modest, small-town doings of "Farmer Wants a Wife".

His modest, small-cast adaptation (minimal chorus girls, no pyrotechnics) is part revival, part homage, and part deconstruction, in the mode of recent shows like "Indecent" and "Shuffle Along".

(Johnson) ★ 'Fluxus and the Essential Questions of Life' (through Dec. 3) This is a historically fascinating and excellently produced show of works that mostly masked revolutionary intentions behind deceptively modest, small-scale works of assemblage, printmaking, performance, film and wordplay.