Sentence examples for of modest scale from inspiring English sources

Kertzer handles the medical and legal details with confidence in this book, which is of modest scale but brims with compassion and insight.

In Le?a city of modest scale in the volcanic lowlands of northwest Nicaragua, within sight of one of the largest cathedrals in Central America, La Catedral de Le you'll find its zona rosa, or entertainment zone.

(As for the art objects they do include, these tend to be works of modest scale, which they have arranged on the second and third floors in spare, open-plan displays that are almost startling in their avoidance of the usual Biennial overcrowding).

There is no legislation about smoking in homes or 'non-work' cars, but government-funded social marketing campaigns (albeit of modest scale) have been used to encourage family-level adoption of smokefree home and car policies [ 55, 56].

The cameras recorded him last week as he rifled through a box of modest-scale works arrayed like files, the authorities said.

THE winding roads of northern Greenwich, with their king-size homes evoking châteaux, would seem to have little in common with Chickahominy, a more proletarian neighborhood of modest-scale dwellings close to downtown.

In part this is simply because of the modest scale and cost of the island project -- about $200,000, compared with the $21 million said to have been paid to create "The Gates".

"That, in a nutshell, is the dramatic arc of this extraordinary film, which, in spite of its modest scale, tactful manner and potentially dowdy subject matter, is packed nearly to bursting with rich meaning and deep implication," A. O. Scott wrote in The Times.

Under the master plan, two 19-story office buildings could be built in Summerlin Centre, but the first complex will be of more modest scale.

Three works of similarly modest scale rest in the flat grove near the Admiral's House; the best of these is Storm King's "For Chris" (1991), which memorializes the artist Chris Wilmarth with saw-toothed voids and a sonorous bell.

This preliminary investigation is of a modest scale and was set in a particularly challenging geographical area for health service provision.