Sentence examples for modicum and only from inspiring English sources

Stone's occasionally flashy filmmaking, with its shifts between high-quality and low-grade images, suggests a total realm of surveillance as well as a modicum (and only a modicum) of Snowden's inner agitation.

Billed as "colossal" on the menu, one crab cake of ordinary size came dense with crab and only a modicum of bread crumbs; rémoulade was served prettily, in an endive leaf.

The university freely concedes, as it must, that the "top 10 percent" plan provides its modicum of diversity only because the high schools in Texas are so segregated.

Or why do some concepts and programs with every reason to succeed and thrive only achieve a modicum of success, and then die?

After that, the Senate intelligence committee continued to lavish the CIA with praise, increase its budgets and provide only a modicum of oversight, despite the many scandals that preceded and succeeded the report.

A film version by Richard Lester in 1966, dropped many of the songs and retained only a modicum of the fun.

Atkins banned even fruit juices, and permitted only a modicum of vegetables, although the latter were negotiable as the diet progressed.

And a much-advertised United States Energy Department program to drum up civilian work for residents of Russia's nuclear cities has been pared back by the United States Congress and provides only a modicum of assistance.

Now I must throw up my hands in despair: I'm running out of space, and the only thing I've addressed in a modicum of detail is the first chapter — a mere dozen pages!

Crab cake here was big and fluffy with only a modicum of breading.

Hence, a band such as the Cribs have been allowed to grow and grow with only a modicum of critical respect, to the point where their forthcoming album, Ignore the Ignorant, is almost being seen as their breakthrough.