Sentence examples for modestly capable of from inspiring English sources

For all its expansive generosity, Mose's voice proves limiting, only modestly capable of the enormous variations in tone that are necessary in a novel that boldly commingles the madcap atmosphere of the burlesque stage with tragedy on the home front.

Mr. Wells dropped out of high school when he was a sophomore, seemed only modestly capable as a mechanic, did not own a computer and did not seem to know how to navigate the Internet.

We are too modestly capable, too contentedly accomplished.

I modestly considered myself capable of handling not merely my job, but any job in the place.

Furthermore, activation of PPAR gamma agonists capable of modestly inducing apoptosis has also been documented in a variety of tumor types [ 68].

However, we noticed that the PML cDNA comprising its 5′UTR was capable of modestly decreasing cell proliferation in p53 null MEFs expressing oncogenic K-RAS (Fig 2E of Supporting Information).

Nigerian society is unrelentingly hierarchical, so if people see that a president is capable of living modestly and not flaunting his power at ordinary citizens, they would start asking why a "mere" senator or MP cannot do likewise.

Orient Express is losing money now, but Cheigh believes that in a modestly healthy economy it's easily capable of netting 50 cents a share in adjusted funds from operations.

Depicting a modestly attired man named Michael Elias Meyer, it seems capable of holding its own against nearly any portrait by Lefèvre's better-known contemporary Jacques-Louis David, thanks to the ineffable ease displayed by artist and sitter alike.

While operating under modestly low pressures (∼10 mTorr), this device was capable of achieving a resolving power of ∼40 (t/Δ t).

To improve communications, the department has ordered new radios that it believes are at least modestly better at penetrating high-rise buildings than the old ones and are capable of linking with police channels.