Sentence examples for modest tribute from inspiring English sources

This special collection is Nature's modest tribute to Stephen Hawking the man, and the legend.

The family library, called the Teak Room for its intact ornamental North Indian-style carving, has a small modest tribute to its American designer, Lockwood de Forest.

Funds for the monument were so depleted by that time that the committee was forced to pursue a far more modest tribute.

I arrive at the door bearing a modest tribute: a box of expensive Alphonso mangoes, each in its own D-cup of green tissue paper.

Mr Obama today ordered federal buildings to fly the US flag at half-mast until Veterans Day November 1111) as a "modest tribute" to the dead at Fort Hood.

A few days after George Harrison's death in 2001 Mr. James locked himself in an old bathroom at a farm near Louisville and recorded six of Mr. Harrison's songs: an intimate, modest tribute of voice and acoustic guitar.

This time around, the choreographer offers a suite of dances set to "Pictures at an Exhibition," Modest Mussorgsky's tribute to the young painter Viktor Hartmann.

The memorial began small, with a request in 2004 for a chunk of steel from the remnants of the twin towers and the idea of a modest, but fitting tribute.

SoHo Through Tuesday This modest retrospective is a fitting tribute to Hughie Lee-Smith, who died last year at 83.

"Trawler" is a poignant tribute to the modest, brave men who endure gruelling conditions to earn a wage from the deep cold sea.

In 1963, the Kennedy family apparently made the modest suggestion that a fitting tribute to the murdered President might be the Florida space center that he had done so much to bring into existence.