Sentence examples for modicum of style from inspiring English sources

Some have been loyal standbys, providing a modicum of style while shielding us from the elements.

In the early nineteen-nineties, with her friend Daisy von Furth, she conceived X-Girl, a street-wear brand that injected a modicum of style into grunge, the least clothes-conscious movement in rock history.

The problem is that I have reached a certain level of adequacy in my skiing that allows me to descend any mountain with a modicum of style until I reach my fifth gluvine.

But this year's The X Factor styling has baffled not only the mums and dads of Britain, but every viewer with the slightest modicum of fashion awareness.

Initial hopes that a modicum of "nation-building" would lead to the birth of western-style democracies met their doom.

She is joined by the Houseboy (Mr. Hernandez), for an airborne, acrobatic pas de deux, the first of several circus-style acts that are interspersed with a modicum of dialogue.

Anyone used to negotiating city traffic, where police cars, CCTV and the sheer crush of traffic impose a modicum of sense upon drivers, may be startled at the Top Gear-style love of acceleration that prevails in Britain's green and pleasant bits.

But at the same moment, as his critics on the left have pointed out, Mr. Obama has been warding off calls for far more stringent regulations of the banks, hoping to win at least a modicum of business support — and to defuse the notion that he is at war with American-style capitalism.

Though it is "made with evident affection and a modicum of visual wit," Mr. Scott wrote in The Times in October, "the filmmakers' tweaking of old-style militancy and old-fashioned racial oppression never amounts to much beyond a sendup of pop-cultural attitudes that were often self-mocking to begin with".

Fashionista: The word has gone from describing a class of urban style-conscientious sophisticates to becoming a lazy and cheap byword for anyone with a modicum of taste.

There was no way to do that and then regain even a modicum of emotional integrity".