Sentence examples for theme of modest from inspiring English sources

A third is redemption, which has also been a theme of modest, regionally inflected American independent cinema for quite some time.

Danh Vo's installation, which revolves around a chandelier taken from the hotel where the Paris Peace Accords were signed in 1973, makes another big sculptural statement, one that seems out of line with the show's theme of modest responses to major events.

Arthur M. Sackler Gallery The intersection of politics and art is also an underlying theme of three very different modest-size shows at the Freer and Sackler galleries, adjoining museums that house the Smithsonian's collection of Asian art.

Another important example of this kind of modest theorizing is provided by philosophical reflections on the theme of "equal opportunity" as related to the allocation of health care and the social determinants of health (Daniels 2007).

Her childhood was one of modest pleasures.

The fable has traditionally been of modest length, however, and the form reached its zenith in 17th-century France in the work of Jean de La Fontaine, whose theme was the folly of human vanity.

DEPARTMENT OF MODEST PROPOSALS parodying Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal".

The market is of modest size.

KATONAH -- "Of Modest Means: Small Works Exhibition".

But he's the epitome of modest.

Those of modest means need not apply.