Sentence examples for modest stories from inspiring English sources

In Italy, the alleged scoop was given a tepid response by most big Italian newspapers, which ran the news in modest stories buried deep in the paper.

Its modest stories are told in broad strokes, but that's a feature, not a bug.

Mr. Halfnight's modest story, about family and home, can't bear all that weight.

But the very Treasury research papers relied on by the Coalition tell a more modest story than the headlines.

In spite of claims to the contrary, Transport for London's own monitoring reports tell a modest story.

Some of the finest plays of recent years have taken a modest story and wrapped it in heady ideas about art, mathematics or nuclear physics.

The words, which tell a modest story of burgeoning friendship and two bears swept along by childhood exploration, join in buoyant harmony with Savage's soft lines and gentle forms.

"Visually gorgeous to a fault and teeming with grandiose if often fascinating ideas that overwhelm the modest story that serves as their vehicle, this may be the least artistically successful film Von Trier has ever made," it concluded.

It was a modest story of a brother and sister whose parents die when they're kids and whose lives are blown in different directions and who, years later, come to some almost-peace about what they can and can't be for each other.

A Viennese comedy like "Der Rosenkavalier," but with a more bourgeois slant and a modest story about a young woman finding Mr. Right, "Arabella" will always stand in the shadow of its irresistible predecessor but has the capability to exert considerable charm.

It's the modest story of a Methodist minister (Fredric March) and his wife (Martha Scott) dealing with everyday trials, bringing up children on almost no money and trying to adjust to life in the 20th century with odd new phenomena like the movies.