Sentence examples for the modest idea from inspiring English sources

The water garden is a little circle of rocks and plants on the floor, the modest idea of a grand thing rather than an actual grand thing.

The modest idea of the New York Philharmonic's Summertime Classics concerts, which began in 2004, is to provide a few postseason programs of lighter fare, novelties and a staple or two at reduced prices.

That the modest idea became a genuine odyssey -- a trip that changed everyone's idea of scale (as Julian Schnabel predicted it would), altered their aesthetics (as Miuccia Prada said it did hers) and boggled their concept of Egyptian grandeur itself (as Sandy Pittman went on and on about in an e-mail) -- was a fortunate accident.

It is widely believed in Washington that there is no chance the gun lobby and the new Republican majority in the House would ever permit passage of the modest ideas for tightening America's absurdly lax gun laws that have surfaced since the massacre in Tucson.

Opponents of Obamacare seized on this modest idea — asking patients what they want really shouldn't be so controversial — as the embodiment of evil.

From this modest idea by local builders of a "Boys Vocational School," with just a few kids getting vocational training, we grew to be this community and technical college now offering degree, diploma and certificate programs for over 100 different programs.

Ned Merrill (a man with the "vague and modest idea of himself as a legendary figure") is sitting in the garden of his friends, the Westerhazys, a glass of gin in his hand, "breathing deeply, stertorously, as if he could gulp into his lungs the components of that moment, the heat of the sun, the intenseness of his pleasure".

The Brainerd Jaycees' seemingly modest idea exploded, and the now-annual event has become the world's largest charitable ice fishing gathering.

Even the far more modest idea of bringing hedge funds under official supervision has been rejected, largely because of a fear that it would encourage them to set up shop overseas, where their activities would be even more opaque.

I'd take it as a good sign if some of the rather modest ideas listed in Nocera's column catch fire, and we finally start to get rid of some of the unnecessary stupidities that bedevil American democracy.

As Ms. Cash notes in her introduction to the substantial catalog, "Sargent and the Sea" evolved from a more modest idea for a show based on "Setting Out to Fish".