Sentence examples for modest touching from inspiring English sources

It is a modest, touching male answer to "Rose's Turn" in "Gypsy," a perfect moment.

"Yohen," which opens the 30th season of the Pan Asian Repertory Theater, is a modest, touching drama, loaded with meaning.

The story of how this collection — a large portion of which now resides at the National Gallery of Art in Washington — came to be is the subject of Megumi Sasaki's modest, touching documentary, "Herb & Dorothy".

The blarney runs thick in what A. O. Scott described as a "modest, touching film" in The New York Times, though the sweetness is tempered somewhat by the bursting, naturalistic performance of Samantha Morton as the actor's wife.

In the living room, Glenn Gissler was responsible for seemingly modest touches that pack considerable punch.

A strapless dress with a sharp line at the bust nabs a modest touch with a midcalf hemline.

"Lily & Madeleine," produced by Paul Mahern, fleshes out the sisters' sound with modest touches: a cello, an electric bass, a muffled kick drum, a snare.

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For the Depression-weary strivers who moved there in the 1940's and 50's, the Grand Concourse was the Champs-Élysées of the Bronx, a broad boulevard of stylishly sedate Art Deco apartment buildings that filled their craving for modest touches of class like sunken living rooms.

The seemingly modest clash touched on the biggest domestic challenge of our times.

It is a modest, warm and ultimately touching work.