Sentence examples for modest triumph from inspiring English sources
But the show is certainly a great vehicle and the Argentinian Elena Roger rides it in modest triumph.
The outcome appeared to be a modest triumph for Archbishop Williams, a bearded, Welsh-born theologian with liberal views on gay and lesbian issues who was enthroned as the archbishop of Canterbury in 2003.
But Schrader held it together, and his modest triumph is that he has made an elegant and sleek movie, artfully shot and tightly edited, on the cheap, though "The Canyons" might have been more fun if it had a trashier, or less austere, style.
By day's end, Obama came away with a modest triumph in his quest for support for his approach in fighting the extremists.
In short, this story of a vulnerable institution in a spirited but depressed town is one of modest triumphs mingled with failures.
When the museum reopened in 2007 after a renovation, Holland Cotter wrote in The New York Times that it was "a vulnerable institution in a spirited but depressed town" whose history was "one of modest triumphs mingled with failures".
Although Ms. Campbell was producing such drawings before her Bronx residency, their fever-chart records of modest triumphs and high anxieties are tailor-made for an artist-in-the-marketplace occasion.
Indeed, locating a bag of rock salt had the aura of a modest lottery triumph.
In a day when a steady stream of exotic scientific speculations overwhelms the public imagination -- tiny superstrings vibrating in a 10-dimensional universe, invisible parallel worlds, wormholes tunneling through space and time -- a comfortable satisfaction can be taken from a modest technological triumph like NEAR.
Museums In contrast to international politics, Asian art fairs are, in their modest way, triumphs of diplomacy.
I hadn't yet learned to ask flattering questions, to "draw people out," to express sympathy for their pain or encouragement for their pleasures, to exonerate their failings as "normal" or declare their modest successes "triumphs".
