Sentence examples for modest yet effective from inspiring English sources

The players had memorized the music and worked out a modest yet effective choreography, which played on both the music's fantasy element and the relationships among the instrumental lines.

While his few previous dramas mostly tell stories of the South, this modest yet effective play, having its world premiere here, delivers a seductive dash of Balkan intrigue with its illusive identities and notions of proletarian revenge.

After Wallace's modest (yet effective) contributions during the team's quick start, he has spent the majority of this season on the bench, recovering from a fractured foot, and returning only to play four minutes last Monday before having to leave again due to "soreness".

In 1966, Ms. Houlton, whose work appeared under her maiden name, Peggy Mann, published "The Street of the Flower Boxes," based on her and her husband's experience encouraging children on their block to assemble, decorate and sell flower boxes to their neighbors, providing a modest yet extraordinarily effective lift to the neighborhood — perhaps shockingly so, to today's cynical eyes.

The effects are subtle yet effective.

Deadly yet effective sophistication from Baby Ford.

They come in three unusual yet effective shapes.

A simple yet effective way of providing relief.

The results are both appealing and off-putting, sincerely modest yet weirdly and subtly self-aggrandizing.

It's modest, yet meaningful.

[18F]afatinib demonstrates a modest, yet statistically significant uptake in A549 cells (Table 1, entry 4).