The castle was a modest holding a half day's ride south of the Trident. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Our customers came from different backgrounds and even different countries, but all had one thing in common: appreciation for modest fashion. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

And that’s why I ultimately decided to take my brother’s advice and start a business that would satisfy not only my desire for affordable modest fashion, but thousands of other women’s desires as well. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Then she pushed back the curtain and stepped out of the bathtub in her pink pajamas—she had dressed in the shower because she was much more modest than the rest of us. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

All over the USSR, young women were taking to the skies and trying to join the Red Army so they could be like their modest and hardworking hero, Marina Raskova. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The women were modest middle-aged and elderly housewives, not flamboyant attention-seekers. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

It was a modest thing, lent to her by the yumboes, but certainly more comfortable than anything she’d ever slept on before. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The magister gave a modest bob of his head, chins jiggling. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

These sorts of modest protections and alarms have been adequate for settlements in the county these last few years. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Another manual advised me to be silent, but not always so, that I might cultivate the art of witty but modest conversation that was the mark of a court lady. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

With a leader as creative as Mrs. Jackson, Troop 11 was never inhibited by its modest resources. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

My family lived in a modest two-story house with a smaller house in the same compound, which was really just two side-by-side rooms for our cook, an everyday servant, and their families. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a modest office, the bishop asked Reggie about his interests, passions, and intentions. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

He raced tentatively, and with the winds buffeting him through the homestretch, won by a modest margin over his stablemate Exhibit. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew that to Grigori, what had resembled a blight had probably been a modest building from the outside, so as to avoid making a target of itself. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Presto’s jowly head bowed and his eyebrows rose in modest recognition of his vocal gifts. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

While he wasn’t a star, Reggie was a good enough athlete to develop his own modest reputation in the sports-crazed community. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Thus, within a modest time span, enormously diverse island environments were settled by colonists all of whom stemmed from the same founding population. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Although he came from a modest background–his father was a farmer in upstate New York–his uncle was the supremely rich and extraordinarily indulgent financier George Peabody. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Other teachers report that the boy is modest, likable, and reasonably talented. Personally, I find him an engaging child.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“A modest bodice is what I’m thinking, with a minimum of frill. Simple and plain. A gathered skirt. You can wear that pinafore on top when you’re working. Do you have more than one pinafore?” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Of course, we four black men were much too modest to make our contribution known, but we often wondered what went on in the laboratories after that secret disaster. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he was such an amiable, modest fellow that he never complained. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Within a week it was erupting magma, albeit in modest amounts, up to a hundred times a day, and being constantly shaken with earthquakes. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

She covered her hair with a head scarf and wore modest skirts, in keeping with her cultural roots, but she spoke English in a way that sounded American. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

When I stood in front of these large audiences, I wanted to be modest in my clothing options, but did not want to sacrifice my sense of fashion. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

My thespian career, which had lain dormant since I played John Wilkes Booth while at Fort Hare, had a modest revival on Robben Island. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Life in Rome was simple and modest compared to life in Alexandria. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

There had to be a solution to Muslim women having to layer their clothes to achieve their modest look. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

The houses on Warren Street were a mix; some were modest, two or three were rather grand, with arches over the windows and fancy boot scrapers by the front door. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The people financing these elections are largely unconcerned with whatever modest differences exist between candidates on crime, but punishment gets the votes. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

When I was a child on the ranch near Salinas, California, we had a Chinese cook who regularly made a modest good thing of it. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t have time to make a modest response. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon the Laughing Man was regularly crossing the Chinese border into Paris, France, where he enjoyed flaunting his high but modest genius in the face of Marcel Dufarge, the internationally famous detective and witty consumptive. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

In the pre-DDT era, inorganic chemicals, applied on a scale that today would seem extraordinarily modest, produced here and there strains of insects that could survive chemical spraying or dusting. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

But she was probably being modest, because if you looked harder at Weisberg’s life you could probably subdivide her experiences into fifteen or twenty worlds. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thomas joined him on the ground and they attacked their modest lunch of sandwiches and sliced fruit. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

The school building might have been modest, but Dorothy’s standards were not. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

She wore a modest black tunic and a head wrap to match. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

In reflecting on his game a while after it occurred, Bobby was refreshingly modest: “I just made the moves I thought were best. I was just lucky.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Elizabeth listened with delight to the happy, though modest hopes which Jane entertained of Mr. Bingley’s regard, and said all in her power to heighten her confidence in it. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

By that point, four years later, the initially modest gap between rich and poor has more than doubled. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

It showed that a person’s decision making is impinged by something as simple as a modest memory task. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

They were a modest, middle-class family, in many ways not at all unlike my own. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“You are so modest. I will send the liaison officer. He can handle the English.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

At first the prices had been so modest—a few hundred dollars per piece—that Mia sometimes had to take on two jobs, or even three. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Then even his modest weekday mounts began losing. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of one thing he was certain: The feast-day banquets in the palace of the King could never better the modest meal before him, for he had earned it. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

We walked 9.7 miles to Spence Field Shelter, a modest distance even for us, but we were wet through and chilled, and anyway it was too far to hike to the next one. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

There was something almost prim about the way she sat there, and yet she had just made a modest proposal that I join her in a very revolting ritual. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh Sam’s smarter than I am, sir,” I said, just to be modest. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Other immigrant kids got picked on too, especially Muslim girls who wore modest clothing, such as long skirts and baggy shirts. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

At the Cavendish, gold resisted the disintegration effect, except for a modest result the scientists traced to contamination of the heavier targets by light impurities such as boron. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

I am not too modest to admit that in sixth grade, I had serious game. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Park Forest was like a miniature city of tract homes—modest ranch-style places with soft gray shingles and newly planted saplings and bushes out front. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Changing cultural values was never a modest undertaking. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Schooled in a convent and raised on a modest horse ranch just outside of Salinas, where her father was a lawyer, she had once been named Lettuce Queen at the annual Salinas Lettuce Festival. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

On impact, he heard a crunching sound, somehow modest, a noise that reminded him more of a fender bender than what this was: a highspeed direct hit. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

The train crawls along; it judders past warehouses and water towers, bridges and sheds, past modest Victorian houses, their backs turned squarely to the track. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had taken her pink party dress off, and was now wearing a modest black sheath that covered most of her body, except for her forearms, hands, and ankles. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

“When Elizabeth was with child, she visited her kinswoman Mary, who carried Christ in her womb. And she was not turned away from the Lord,” I say in a low and modest voice. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

People were so grateful that we were making clothing that was simultaneously modest, fashionable, and affordable. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

"Brother, that was quite a speech you made. I heard just the end of it, but you certainly moved them to action . . ." "Action," I said, "action —" "Don't be modest, brother," she said, "I heard you." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was tall and slender, bearded, wearing an open-collared shirt and a modest gray coat with missing buttons. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

“When did you get modest, Squint? All my friends are fascinated.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The driver snapped the reins and the modest parade, escorted by a small group of bareheaded officers on foot, took Abraham Lincoln to the White House. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

In imagining myself as modest, mysterious, and fiercely intelligent, I'm forced to realize that, in real life, I have none of these qualities. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

The boy watches both the magician and his modest audience curiously. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

My grandfather was a kind and gentle man who made a very modest living working at a printing press. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

The hem is a little shorter than could be considered modest, hitting me just above the tops of my knees, right where I like it to be. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

And look at the modest, talky straightforwardness of phrases like, “It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. ” Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

As inflation ate away at their modest government pensions, Elizebeth spent long hours going over their checkbooks, bank records, and tax forms. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“And it’s not like it’s the Times. No need to be modest.” Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

His name is Rufino Puente, and despite the fact that he comes from one of the wealthiest families in Havana, he’s a modest young man. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He began to charge a modest fee for his knowledge, which enabled him to rent a house where he set up his academy of converts. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lucinda agrees to wear a shawl, not to be modest, but to hide the rash on her neck that won’t go away. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Interestingly, even though the hole was modest, nearly everything about it was surprising. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The houses there were modest but neat, with patches of new lawn that seemed oddly green and out of place in the uniformly brown surroundings. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Her modest audience forgets their conversation and their dinner as they watch. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Her modest gray dress had a “white Puritan collar and cuffs.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

There was a decent effort at New York’s Jamaica Race Track, then a modest allowance win at Narragansett Park. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Looming over the modest waiting room was the Great Seal of Michigan, in vivid Technicolor, painted, probably, by some high school art class. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

"You'll need someone to share your burdens. I assure you, my price would be modest." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Her hair was close-cropped; her dress was modest; her voice compelled attention. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

I had an important keynote scheduled at an Islamic conference in Chicago, so I was happy to find some modest options tucked in the racks of elegant dresses. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

“Shaukat's daughter. This weekend. Borrowed some money for her dowry, even though it’ll still be a modest one, given their financial circumstances. Your family never mentioned it?” Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

It is difficult to believe that Henry’s modest plan could have worked so well despite these unforeseen events. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

She was a hard worker, modest, and a leader of the local Komsomol, a youth communist group. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

I must be carrying a modest fortune in illegal papers. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

I will admit, you have had some modest success regarding the girl thus far.' The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

I know what it’s like, to have modest, simple wishes, and then have even those taken away from you. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

All those differences among Polynesian societies developed, within a relatively short time and modest fraction of the Earth’s surface, as environmentally related variations on a single ancestral society. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The quiet time she spent alone there, a modest brick building filled with walnut furniture and fragrant with the must of old books, was the best part of her job. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Even Swift, whose background was modest indeed, dismissed Wotton as someone of unknown parentage. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

For who could sleep in a house—a modest one-story house—where all night the telephone had been sounding every few minutes? In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Valentina Tereshkova came from a modest background in the Yaroslavl region. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

They were most rapid in Eurasia, because of its east-west major axis and its relatively modest ecological and geographical barriers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The man’s nervousness was soothed a little by her humble tone, and the spies had the good sense to look modest and harmless. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The people she chose, young and old, from the rich part of town or the more modest streets, did not individually persecute Cora. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

By 1932, the modest, mild-tempered Cunningham, whose legs and back were covered in a twisting mesh of scars, was becoming a national sensation, soon to be acclaimed as the greatest miler in American history. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

His career extends from the industry’s modest origins to its cur- rent hamburger hegemony. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z

When the future finally arrived, they didn’t flaunt their modest wealth, but they bought nice clothes, some jewelry for Billie, a Cadillac. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the end table is ajar of peaches and a simple note from Mr. Gideon: “Please enjoy this modest gift.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

He was modest and lived modestly, yet knew the richness of his own mind and the world of privilege that would open up to him as a result. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

However modest, this was a chance for a new beginning. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

He and Margaret lived in a modest home that he bought from a friend for a one-dollar down payment, then spent years fixing up and paying off. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

My experience of the piano came entirely from Robbie’s squat little music room with its scraggly potted plant and view of our modest backyard. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

They crossed the broad stone plaza, then a modest rock garden, then waited as Constance shook the gravel from her shoes. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

"He was too kind," she demurred, trying to remain modest and calm, though her heart was singing. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

His former employer described him as "a thoroughly wholesome, typically American boy" with a "modest demeanor." Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Feeling antsy both at home and at work, we’d booked a modest hotel room near Waikiki Beach and started counting down the days. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“Don’t be modest, kid. Horse said you flung that knife straight through the steps into that woman’s arm.” The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Three men in dark suits knock on the door of a modest house in Dearborn, Michigan. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

When Susan finished, the four of us managed a modest cheer, but that was about it. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

That suite’s modest potential for domestication was responsible for the late start of food production in North America. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

While the scythe’s house was modest and unadorned, it had one impressive feature: the weapons den. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

I was having trouble finding modest clothing options to wear to the speaking engagements now filling my calendar. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

While the women in Hampton Institute’s Engineering for Women courses were preparing for their new careers as computers, Mary Jackson managed the USO’s modest financial accounts and welcomed guests at the club’s front door. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

At a modest high school in the Tidewater city of Portsmouth, not far from John Casteen’s boyhood home, a guidance-office wall filled with college pennants does not include one from rarefied Virginia. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

How grateful she must have felt to pay such a modest price for her betrayal. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Bathing suits itched her, and although she wore the most conservative models, with long sleeves and black stockings, she never felt modest in them. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Héctor and Raymond were buttoned into their school assembly shirts, and us girls put on our good dresses, while Mami combed our hair into tight braids held at the nape with modest white ribbons. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“The dress will be modest and plain. You would not want to be mistaken for one of the guests, after all.” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

This before my mother died, in our first, modest house. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The modest two-story house would be their family home for more than twenty years. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Lev reaches overhead and takes down the viola and our modest bag with all our worldly possessions: our travel papers, a change of clothes, Lev's prayer book. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Only a modest number of factors determines whether a mammal is suitable for domestication. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“You modest young gentleman,” said the butler, substituting a large horn. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

She has on an ankle-length Chinese dress with modest vents at the side. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a modest library, the creep of moisture had bowed the shelves into crooked smiles. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

With no money to spare, they planned for a quiet, private weekday wedding and a modest honeymoon, and then Pollard would begin his long journey back to the saddle. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

That night creatures were drawn to lights where they could be most easily eaten by other creatures was one of those mysteries that gave her modest pleasure. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Tally swallowed and shrugged, hoping she looked modest. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Army and come home to make a modest living and in the process try to help his fellow Haitians. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

So I built a modest fire just big enough to cut the chill and lay on my back, backpack under my head. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Koch was willing to work for the modest salary the Mercury could afford. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

It was fairly modest in size until 1873, when a temperance revival swept across Ohio and western New York. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know if I’m smart enough,” I said, mostly to be modest again. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

They left the marble palaces and fragrant gardens be-hind and made their way through a poorer part of the city where modest brick houses turned blind walls to the street. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

What I am now describing, incidentally, is one of many instances I could relate to you to underline Lord Darlington's essentially shy and modest nature. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Another idea, developed in the mid-1590s, was a modest success, but didn’t make Galileo rich. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

They grew a modest crop of vegetables to sell in town. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“Don’t be modest. You’ve got ancient roots. Greek as well as Roman. It’s no wonder Juno—” He tilted his head, as if listening to a voice from above. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Max himself had a modest hit in Texas with “Moonlight on Emma,” a song about an ex-girlfriend who dumped him and moved to Hollywood. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

All of a sudden Mrs. van Daan, who feels the need to bring herself into every conversation, remarked, “I'm very modest and retiring too, much more so than my husband!” The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Instead of politely asking for modest reforms in seating patterns and more courteous behavior from the drivers, why not try to obliterate the segregation laws in court? Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Or the red shift might be a Doppler effect due not to the general expansion of the universe but rather to a more modest and local galactic explosion. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

My first solo campaign event took place in early April inside a modest home in Des Moines. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Some hang limp from laundry lines as thin and worn as thread; others are nailed clumsily to the doors of modest mud-brick homes not so unlike my own. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Why was it so hard for designers to understand that being fashionable was not antithetical to being modest? Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

The Abnegation are modest to the point of discomfort. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

I found Hamlet's conclusion unjust, and forgoing my modest manner, I spoke boldly. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

As a woman who pursued sport professionally in hijab, I proved that being a modest Muslim woman and being active were not mutually exclusive. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

“They were both brilliant and modest about it all.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Though teaching offered prestige, the compensation was modest. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Normally modest to a fault, she covered her triumphs in detail, adding that “my own experience has been unique.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

On Phinney Ridge, looming above Ballard, wood smoke curled up from the stovepipes and chimneys of hundreds of modest homes and dissolved into the mist overhead. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The Southern struggle had grown from a modest group of black students demonstrating peacefully at one lunch counter to the largest mass movement for racial reform and civil rights in the twentieth century. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Young women in modest one-piece bathing suits with frilled skirts splashed in the water or stretched out on warm sand, waiting. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Once again, he thought, the two children of the depression had fought the misery of past holidays by spending a modest fortune on their own children. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I've never had such a lovely dress, the fit snug enough to let me fight yet modest enough not to cause scandal. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

In any case those were my convictions, and back in college I had taken a modest stand against the war. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next night, Singleton and Agent Olsen gathered around a wooden table in the modest Davis County office of the Highway Patrol in Farmington with Briana Bishop and her father, Steve Bishop. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

His family's modest holdings were on the smallest of the Fingers, and Petyr had been slight and short for his age. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

But his modest means did not stand out as much as his efforts to guard his morals. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Surprisingly, considering its modest dimensions and how little room there is for real backcountry, the park is remarkably rich in wildlife. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

No one seemed to notice the car after its abandonment by Ansley Matthews; no one seemed to notice the modest solitaire of Ben in his fall from the grandeur of courting cheerleaders. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He took a very modest sip and made to hand it back. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

You know that our Navajo way is to be quiet and modest. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Below that, in more modest lettering, Fine Food. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

His father, Guy Waterman, is a musician and freelance writer who, among other claims to modest fame, authored speeches for presidents, ex-presidents, and other prominent Washington politicians. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

You know, clever and modest and brilliant and perfect, like that. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

As I thought this I felt anxious, because although a tighter blouse would have made Jeanette’s bending more modest, the tightness itself would have been less modest. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

My father's modest income didn't allow us any of those entertainments. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

The M-Plan was conceived with the best intentions, but it was instituted with only modest success and its adoption was never widespread. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just the even-paced walk of a woman on her way to some modest but respectable work. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

He thought I was being modest or something. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

On the south end of the garden, in the shadows of a loquat tree, was the servants’ home, a modest little mud hut where Has- san lived with his father. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

It had been converted, following the abolition of the death penalty in New York State, to a vocational building with modest print, drafting, woodworking, welding, and small-engine shops. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The audiences are modest enough that they remain individual people rather than blending into an anonymous crowd. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Perhaps, having begun this more modest, contemplative life, she considered destroying the messy pile of sketches. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Exactly. So I would advise my golden boy brother to beware when he deals with his brilliant, but modest, sister.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I used to picture modest little old men washing in the mornings and dressing before they shuffled out of these bedrooms. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the evening wore on, she realized that she was a modest success. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

The same impression struck them in Britain, where the most groundbreaking advances were being achieved in Manchester and Cambridge with the most modest handmade gear. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

"I seem," Irwin admitted with a small, modest smile, "to get on with the ladies." The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

There are still a few houses scattered around—all of them modest, narrow, wood-framed structures stabilized with brick buttresses—and a couple of buildings in what was once the central business district. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

And when that modest milestone flashes past, or at some other point thereabouts, for reasons unknown your atoms will shut you down, silently disassemble, and go off to be other things. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The sum of it had almost entirely depleted the modest savings Ekon had accrued from his time at the temple, not that Koffi needed to know that, or anything else about his financial situation. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

But although he became the most respected scientist of his time, Boyle retained his retiring, modest nature and declined many honours. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Behind these modest buildings stood the main house. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

When news of Shaffer’s hike leaked out, it attracted a good deal of attention—newspapers came to interview him, the National Geographic ran a long article—and the AT underwent a modest revival. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Straight-backed, prim Mary set up a modest but respectable home near the city center, a part of town where blacks and whites lived peaceably together. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

She waited at the stage door after the Saturday matinee and followed him to the shabby brownstone house where he lived untheatrically in a modest furnished room. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He took the slip of paper and wrote down a more modest figure. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

He is polite and thoughtful and unexpectedly modest, and he talks with the quiet earnestness of a graduate student. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

For the price of a modest meal you can ponder the decline and fall of the Roman Empire, the origin of species, the interpretation of dreams, the nature of things. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It gave him more than enough time to pitch the hay and tend to the animals on his own modest property, located on five acres just outside Tremonton. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

The result, which they named Valley View, is situated above the town on a plateau of modest altitude. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

They keep telling me I should talk less, mind my own business and be more modest, but I seem doomed to failure. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

As for Penelope, her dress was both dark and gray, and the cut was modest; one might even call it severe. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

In it Mantell was characterized as a mediocre anatomist whose modest contributions to paleontology were limited by a "want of exact knowledge." A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Thank you,” Sarai said with play sincerity, laying a modest hand across her breast. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

He took a slightly less modest sip and put the bottle down. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Reverend Scott was a modest, unassuming man, but Dlamini was a bit hard to take. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She and Jimmy made a living as public school teachers, but their paychecks were modest. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

She with his quick sketch of her as Madonna ascending in folds upon modest folds of garments. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Even that modest aspiration was to be arrived at “voluntarily.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

She worried that easing up on their demands during the war would cause women to lose ground and forfeit the modest gains they had won. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Chronicler accounted for a sizable, though more modest amount. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Mrs. van Daan: “Oh, but Mrs. Frank, I don’t understand what you mean! Honestly, I’m extremely modest and retiring. How can you say that I’m pushy?” The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Anna’s father told him, “Don’t be so modest,” although he didn’t laugh this time, and he told me, “Simon is one of the great minds of our age.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

On New Year’s Eve, after years in a modest rented town house, she and her husband moved into a new house that reminds her of the Brady Bunch home. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Several minutes later, Mr. Byrne pulls into the driveway of a modest beige stucco house with brown trim. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

The distances between islands of the Tongan archipelago, as well as the distances between Tonga and neighboring archipelagoes, were sufficiently modest that a multi-island empire encompassing 40,000 people was eventually established. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

She pulls out a modest dress of calico, similar to mine but the full length that real ladies wear. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

He’d left his modest home with nothing but the clothes on his back. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Hoagland oversaw the operation from our modest offices in Westchester County. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ophie knew that colored folks had not always been free, and she understood that her work for the Carutherses resonated within the same patterns of history, even if she was paid a modest wage. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

She knew about the weather, omens, the living, the dead, dreams and all illnesses and made a modest living with her skills. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Intricately whorled and squirled, the braid trimming was designed to call attention to her modest bust already helped out by two rows of ruffles pinned to her corset cover. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The modest tent he had coaxed out of Lord Lefford's stores had been erected in the center of the four fires. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The sitting room has a hearth and a modest stack of something that looks to be dried dung. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

This was arranged, but because the BFG was a very modest giant, he wouldn’t put his own name on it. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

If fly genes could be altered with such modest doses of radiation, then could the alteration of human genes be far behind? The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

The most modest of these options, the radioactive spray, would take at least a year to perfect after the first chain reaction was achieved. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

A wine cellar was carved out below, and a modest refectory vaulted above it. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

The books were read, but they had little influence, and the demand for them was modest: it took, for example, twenty-five years for The New Organon to appear in a second edition. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The shack was modest and tiny, a far cry from Miss Peregrine’s queenly setup. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Actually, you can win only by taking cards from the blue decks, which offer a nice steady diet of $50 payouts and modest penalties. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Anderson’s personal approach to her life and career was disarmingly modest and practical. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

The subject often casts her eyes downward in a modest or coy manner. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t help but think about how my father had kept his aims deliberately modest, avoiding every risk in order to give us constancy at home. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Her gown was cream and green, with long lace sleeves, so modest and so innocent that any man who looked at her might think her the most chaste of maids. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The delicate blooming skin, the golden hair, the wide-set, modest, and yet promising eyes, the little mouth full of sweetness, caught attention and held it. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

From this modest, cramped perch, Harvey conjured up big plans for the CIA's secret war against the communist enemy. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

One spur surely was the 1921 transformation of Throop Polytechnic Institute, a modest private technical school in Pasadena, into the California Institute of Technology. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Then, boops, she laughs, a modest laugh that gets bigger and bigger and soon everyone is laughing. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

The houses were modest but well cared for—flowerpots were filled with geraniums or black-eyed Susans, and floral wreaths hung from each wooden door. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“It’s a modest thing, but it does catch the eye. I’ve had several offers for it in the last week, though none that were worthy.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

I spread on a modest amount and set it on a pink glass plate, the kind that came free in bags of sugar or flour or laundry soap. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

His pride in his work spilled over into our home, where he was clearly the king of the castle, even if the castle was just a modest apartment. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

In June, just a few months before the accident, Lisa and Van Park attended his farewell at the Garland Tabernacle, a modest red-brick church with spires on each side. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Because I’m a shy, modest Oriental lady. Just don’t expect me to bathe you.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

It is, I suppose, a relatively modest establishment, but very clean and perfectly adequate for my needs. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Craig, meanwhile, insisted that Dad would want something basic—modest and practical and nothing more. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The east had its own charm or fine deep blue, and its own modest gem, a rising and solitary star: soon it would boast the moon; but she was yet beneath the horizon. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Arthur had been taught that he ought to be modest, and he was too simple to notice that the vulture was going to pounce. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were so many dress options online, yet the few that fit the definition of modest were painfully dull and matronly. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Thus, geographic connectedness and only modest internal barriers gave China an initial advantage. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

After months of modest hunger the children now forget to complain about food. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Carvajal went on to achieve modest renown as a priest in Lima, dying peacefully at the age of eighty. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

For instance, although he can understand his mother tongue, and speak it fluently, he cannot read or write it with even modest proficiency. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was a modest vehicle, square and bulky in the manner of a Dodge, so long in front as to look out of balance and with its radiator grille low over the bumper. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

I have never seen Francis Crick in a modest mood. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Citra found it both maddening and endearing how modest he could be. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Finally, Sequoyah realized that words were made up of modest numbers of different sound bites that recurred in many different words—what we would call syllables. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Thus the artist’s hands, however modest the task they may have to perform, play an essential part in the creative process. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our own attempts to penetrate toward the middle have been modest indeed. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

They have a modest home, but it was a palace com-pared to the places I had lived in recently. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Within just a block or two, you stop seeing modest apartment complexes and start seeing houses and luxury apartment buildings, restaurants with outdoor patios, and shops of all kinds. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

For a while, he used to ask Hassan what he wanted, but he gave up doing that because Hassan was always too modest to actually suggest a present. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Liszt appears to have been a decent man, very gener-ons and modest, though exceptionally vain. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

My grandfather watched in astonishment as his modest wife shredded her clothing before his eyes, the skirt of the dress, the waist, the bosom, the neckline. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Respected and important as he was, he was a very modest person, and wise. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ATC occupies a modest white house on a steep hill above the old part of town. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

That the Appalachian Mountains present so much more modest an aspect today is because they have had so much time in which to wear away. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Only a modest train ride separated the Burnhams, but the mounting demands of the fair made that distance as difficult to span as the Isthmus of Panama. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Until Barack started campaigning, I’d had no exposure to the orderly bustle of an Army base or the modest tract homes that housed service members with families. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The house plots were modest, typically about six thousand square feet, but they were footholds on the dream. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

A vase of artificial flowers and other modest decorative knickknacks stood on a windowsill, and there was a bed of marigolds by the freshly painted stoop. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, he suggested modest purging, that patients be gently induced to sweat, that their hands and feet be bathed in vinegar and water, and that they get as much cool, fresh air as possible. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

He also set up a modest general store where the tenants could buy whatever they needed without having to make the trip by oxcart all the way into San Lucas. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s so hard to find what my mama calls modest clothes in the regular stores. You know, long enough to cover your butt, half sleeves or longer, not so tight you can’t even breathe.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

He was a farmer of small means in a modest house. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

It provided home mortgages for hundreds of black families, people of dependable but modest means who could not have otherwise bought their own homes. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

His family, in fact, had been of very modest means, straining to make ends meet. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

A moral freeze: I couldn’t decide, I couldn’t act, I couldn’t comport myself with even a pretense of modest human dignity. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sky is vast, unblocked by buildings, even the modest ranch-style homes are separated by many acres. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

It was modest and cramped inside, but walking in I thought, Wow. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I am suddenly self-conscious in my prim blouse and modest skirt, my sensible shoes and churchy earrings. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

I don't know what time it was when I found a modest wooden home—a small place that was plain without extras. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

A modest fellow, he never referred to the scale by his own name, but always called it "the Magnitude Scale." A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Silence reigned on the only street, which was lined with modest adobe houses, and he felt as if he were walking in his sleep. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was proudly modest like a proper Chinese child. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even modest programs could require a tray of hundreds of the cards, which needed to be fed into the computer in the correct order. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

She had a makeup table laden with perfume bottles and face powder compacts and various ointments in tiny pots, which given my mother’s modest practicality seemed as exotic as jewels to me. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

My mother was a very modest person, and this was going to be agony for her, sitting down in public, among strangers. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since the supercollider debacle particle physicists have set their sights a little lower, but even comparatively modest projects can be quite breathtakingly costly when compared with, well, almost anything. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Asiya and Faizah were just as excited as I was to launch this company because they struggled with the same issues of finding modest clothing options as I did. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Most likely Eratosthenes would have booked passage on something far more modest. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

I guess they really didn't take a close look at our modest apartment. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

But before the grandeur and intricacy of Nature, he was, like Ptolemy and Kepler, exhilarated as well as disarmingly modest. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

They lag behind the middle-class kids by only a modest amount, and, in fact, in one year, second grade, they learn more than the middle- or upper-class kids. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

At any rate, modest men were careful not to over-bow themselves. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

It looked so innocent, that modest little brick house, with its clean white door, the peach tree in the front yard ruffled with soft pink blossoms. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

On Tuesday, a funeral service was held in the modest redbrick Ebenezer Baptist Church where his father had presided for three decades, and in which young “M. L.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

In spite of the grand title, this was a very modest first step on the academic ladder. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

He next spent five weeks tramping about the modest hills of Snowdonia and the English Lake District to learn what he thought he needed to know about climbing. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

The former is the most modest person at the table. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

But these few modern additions have remained of modest importance compared with ancient staples like wheat, corn, and rice. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

We’d park the car and walk along streets of modest bungalows, landing on a doorstep to find a hunched-over widow or a big-bellied factory worker with a can of Michelob peering through the screen door. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Snow still chose to dwell behind the armory, in a pair of modest rooms previously occupied by the Watch’s late blacksmith. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Her rooms are modest in comparison to others hidden behind the circus tents, but they are filled with books and well-worn furniture. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Around the corner came the more modest homes of the less prosperous white residents. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Instead, highly productive agriculture enabled a modest number of immigrant rice farmers to reproduce much faster than Jomon hunter-gatherers and eventually to outnumber them. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Even if he had tarried on the mountaintop, and even allowing for his modest walking speed, he should have reached here by now. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

The senator’s villa, much more modest, of course, but still spacious and luxurious, had been recently built, and was on the outskirts. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

A modest glow of hope flickered to life within me, like a candle in the night. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Striking the Earth’s atmosphere, a modest cometary fragment would produce a great radiant fireball and a mighty blast wave, which would burn trees, level forests and be heard around the world. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He lived in a modest bungalow, and wore an old faded suit that could have used a visit to the dry cleaners. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it was enough to see them safe to Ketterdam and to keep them in modest comfort for a good while. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

New Guineans manage to look secure while paddling dugouts on calm lakes and rivers, but not even New Guineans can use a dugout in seas with modest waves. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was a modest beginning: he opened for another band and played for thirty-five minutes. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

There’s nothing to say that they won’t start a modest rampage tomorrow. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

"He's a modest one, is all. Mr. Shakespeare's the same, and Mr. Burbage. Don't like others pawing them, I guess." The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

I saw the boys, but I didn’t know which — I was walking eyes down, as a modest maid should. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

His editor, Ade Coker, had insisted on it, saying Papa deserved it, saying Papa was too modest. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Each time she visits, there are modest signs of progress. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

She weighed ninety-eight pounds; rings—a wedding band and one set with a diamond modest to the point of meekness—wobbled on one of her bony hands. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

And is 500 certified attacks really such a modest number, considering how few people go into the North American woods? A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

I remember him relating it again the first time I returned to see him after gaining my first post as butler - to a Mr and Mrs Muggeridge in their relatively modest house in Allshot, Oxfordshire. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Farther along, beyond their comparatively modest houses, the street broadened and the grand villas of judges and officials rose on either side in the midst of large gardens and vineyards. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

At the end of that time, we spotted a modest house and made our way toward its dock, where we hoped to find a suitable boat. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Scattered throughout Indonesia, warungs usually occupy a modest shack or roadside lean-to with a small counter and a bench where customers sit and eat traditional dishes. Choice Tables: The Flavor of Bali, at Roadside Stands 2009-12-16T20:56:00Z

He was, by his own admission, an actor of modest gifts, which made him perfect for the role, at least as far as I’m concerned. Roger Moore Was the Best Bond Because He Was the Gen X Bond 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z

He is happy to dole out fashion-show tickets to non-famous customers who may have made only modest purchases, if it means generating goodwill. Analysis | The rare fashion brand that’s beloved by the women of Trump world and not afraid to show it 2020-07-14T04:00:00Z

When Hackett, the brand, was born in a modest shop “at the wrong end” of hip and happening Kings Road, in London’s Chelsea district, it sold only used clothes. 2010-01-11T12:05:00Z

Francisco Costa’s modest resort collection for Calvin Klein flowed easily from his fall line, with a fluid fit, an abundance of long-sleeved looks, and not too many surprises until the very end of the show. On the Runway: Calvin Klein Resort: Silver Linings 2011-06-09T13:26:12Z

The number of people who tune in to Detroit’s webcasts is still modest: The orchestra says that, on average, a little more than 2,500 stream each concert. Detroit Symphony Dives Headlong Into Streaming 2014-03-21T22:02:56Z

There were plenty of other signs of almost-insouciance in the store, which primarily sells the company’s bags, accessories and modest but growing clothing line. Critical Shopper: At Jack Spade, Carefully Appearing Not to Care 2010-09-01T17:46:00Z

Tiny foibles are part of the game in outdoor opera with a modest budget. Music Review: ‘Tosca,’ With New York Grand Opera, in Central Park 2012-06-28T21:08:27Z

It helped that the scoring was, for a modest orchestra of 35, deployed sparingly to keep the textures open. Review: ‘Between Worlds,’ With English National Opera, Addresses 9/11 2015-04-14T04:00:00Z

Despite her modest production facilities, her macabre works are continuing to attract fans and she recently exhibited her creations at a gallery in Japan, where “creepy-cute” is a trend in pop culture. Singapore artist channels 'creepy-cute' with baby heads in sushi rolls 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z

In spite of almost 20 years of solid visibility on UK screens, Macfadyen is unfailingly modest about his achievements. 'I didn’t want to do an ITV drama': Matthew Macfadyen on making it big in the US 2019-07-26T04:00:00Z

Nearly two decades since his last film, he's at Cannes with "Max Rose," a modest independent film in which he stars as an elderly man reconciling himself to life without his late wife. A controversial victory lap for Lewis at Cannes 2013-05-25T17:46:14Z

The upward sloping roofs in both wings conferred a generosity to the rooms’ modest dimensions, as did extensive floor-to-ceiling window walls that splashed sunlight across the flagstone floors and opened to the greenery outside. Why Does the Demolition of a Marcel Breuer House Matter? 2022-02-06T05:00:00Z

Yet he was modest about the architect’s role in making cityscapes. Ulrich Franzen, Architect of New York Buildings, Dies at 91 2012-10-13T22:25:55Z

A modest Ludlow Street loft that seats fewer than 50 people on sofas and cozy armchairs, Spectrum has recently emerged as a hotbed of new-music activity, showcasing local artists and distinguished visitors. Music Review: Piano by Jacob Greenberg and Reinier van Houdt at Spectrum 2014-03-26T20:59:42Z

Il Magnifico is now buried here too, under a modest altar adorned with Michelangelo’s Madonna and Child, flanked by saints that also had their toes nibbled by cleansing bacteria. Send in the Bugs. The Michelangelos Need Cleaning. 2021-05-30T04:00:00Z

There’s no intrinsic reason why this combination of documentary and fiction should be harmful or deceptive, any more than interventionist approaches to archival footage are intrinsically less valid than modest ones. “Rolling Thunder Revue,” Reviewed: Martin Scorsese’s Slippery Chronicle of Bob Dylan in Concert 2019-06-14T04:00:00Z

Its setting is a modest house in a small, coastal Japanese town. What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘Wu-Tang: An American Saga’ and ‘Our House’ 2019-09-04T04:00:00Z

As the months wore on, though, Daley's role on Capitol Hill became less and less prominent and he focused on more modest accomplishments. Daley resigns as White House chief of staff 2012-01-10T02:47:00Z

Lanky and spry, he sometimes flexes his muscles or engages in modest calisthenics as he relates his story. | 'Absolution': One Man?s Wrathful Vengeance 2010-09-16T04:30:00Z

Stravinsky’s Mass is modest and elegant, in lucid colors, while “King David” is a sprawling Technicolor spectacle. Music Review: Manhattan School of Music in ‘King David’ and Stravinsky’s Mass 2014-04-07T20:32:11Z

Pinterest also saw modest search growth in men’s luxury watches and trendy watches – both of which are up six-fold. Pinterest says these style trends will be big in 2022: Pearls, mullets, checkboards and more 2022-01-18T05:00:00Z

For the next few years, while she was studying journalism at DePaul University, Trifilio continued writing sharp, hooky power-pop songs and uploading them to a modest but growing online fan base. Beach Bunny Is Building an Indie-Rock Career in a Time of TikTok 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z

The impeccably preserved upholstery could attract someone furnishing a new location, but the housing market is doing badly, which makes such a price remarkable in its modest way. Auctions: Seesaw Bidding Early in the Season 2011-09-09T11:00:09Z

There will be a 2011-12 season, Mr. Steel asserted, though once again a limited one of just five full productions, including two smaller-scale operas in modest stagings. Critic?s Notebook: Move From Lincoln Center Could Fortify City Opera?s Identity 2011-05-22T17:13:34Z

The modest detective drama “Grey Lady” feels as if it might have been adapted from a mass-market paperback. “Grey Lady”: A moody detective drama explores off-season Nantucket 2017-04-29T04:00:00Z

Asian markets ended mostly lower, but the losses were modest. Stocks start day higher, up more than 100 2011-08-11T13:58:00Z

This may all sound like peripheral information, but it’s impossible to ignore as it places the audience in a hall of mirrors that refracts and amplifies the new play’s modest charms. Review: ‘Gently Down the Stream,’ a Romance and a Gay History Tour 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z

“The contribution is modest,” said Ms. Sweedler, “and the influence they wield on the program is nonexistent.” Oligarchs, as U.S. Arts Patrons, Present a Softer Image of Russia 2019-10-06T04:00:00Z

Ferrier rose to fame from modest roots, the daughter of a Lancashire village schoolmaster. Kathleen Ferrier and Her Centennial CD 2012-07-08T02:54:24Z

The poignancy of Abounaddara’s work is derived partly from the group’s modest means of creation. New Museum Puts Spotlight on Art From the Arab World 2014-07-15T04:00:00Z

A movie is unlikely to change that, and “The Big Short,” in many ways a startlingly ambitious film, is modest about what it can do. Review: In ‘The Big Short,’ Economic Collapse for Fun and Profit 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z

Always modest and self-effacing, he was never wholly comfortable with such attention. Lanford Wilson obituary 2011-03-25T19:05:27Z

Be modest about what you are trying to achieve: it is unlikely that your work really "radicalises the ontology of art" so why say it does? Writing an artist statement? First ask yourself these four questions 2013-04-15T11:56:25Z

Sara seems to have been modest to excess regarding what she called "my little weak poetic faculty". Poem of the week: Time's Acquittal by Sara Coleridge 2011-01-10T10:49:35Z

Not the special effects and undies on the outside bit, but that notable amounts of his CV are now comprised of unoriginal concepts: more modest franchises than Batman or Superman but franchises nevertheless. Kevin Smith: 'It's not just dudes who want to see characters in tights' 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z

After all, what good were all these other miracles in sobriety if I couldn’t support my family, have kids one day, maybe even buy a modest home? My own sober miracle 2013-01-12T16:00:00Z

“I never thought I would get paid,” added Hillman, a friendly, modest man of 76. Chris Hillman’s musical life from Bryds to Burritos and more 2020-12-08T05:00:00Z

Obama told me that he was quite conscious of the great tradition of African-American memoir and knew that he had a more modest story to tell. The invention of Obama 2010-04-23T23:06:00Z

Gentle and modest, he shuffles in repetitive loops through his tangled yard, a child’s wonderland of miniature railway cars and oversized sculptures. Review: ‘Dark Star’ Peers Into H. R. Giger’s Creative World 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z

The offices of Philip Chan's firm are not far removed from this frenzy, occupying the second story of a modest stucco building a few blocks from the historic Santa Anita Park racetrack. How Arcadia is remaking itself as a magnet for Chinese money 2014-12-03T05:00:00Z

The pizza, baked in a wood-burning oven, is delicate, with crispy crust and quality toppings served in modest quantities that are meant to be tasted, not scarfed. Pizzeria 22 in West Seattle: a little bit of Italy 2012-02-16T21:35:07Z

It has had modest success, drawing more than 40 million streams on Spotify. How BMG Secretly Signed a Rapper Dropped for Antisemitic Lyrics 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z

Nearly all of them are products of modest upbringings. "Breaking Big" corrects the myths that make Kylie Jenner a "self-made" success 2018-07-22T04:00:00Z

Real estate is pricey in Seoul — and most galleries are modest by Chelsea standards — but people find ways to make it work. Inside South Korea’s Art-Mad Capital 2023-01-05T05:00:00Z

The following morning, their modest caravan of two SUVs travels north over the prairie, into the heart of America. Mr. CrossFit vs. Big Soda: A profane fitness guru’s wonky war with the soda industry 2018-06-03T04:00:00Z

They do a lot of that, and this movie — based on the real-life escapades of literary forger Lee Israel and her accomplice, Jack Hock — is admirably modest and specific in scale. The Best Movies of 2018 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z

It is already visible in virtually every high-end restaurant in Spain, and even in modest cafes and tapas bars. After El Bulli, Spain Looks Forward 2011-06-15T03:00:12Z

He added that the movies was a "modest disappointment, not a major one." Analysis: Fox wounded, but not because of News Corp crisis 2011-09-30T21:51:53Z

A drive down the main arcade on Ojai Avenue is worth it, but I ended up in a more modest section of town on El Roblar Drive looking for dinner. Just 11 Miles Off Coast, California’s Galápagos 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z

If it’s a token of artistic independence, it’s a modest one. New York Jazz Clubs Double as Record Labels 2014-11-11T05:00:00Z

"I don't really know what's going on," confides the modest Liverpudlian. Queens Of The Stone Age: Josh Homme comes back from the brink 2013-06-01T05:00:01Z

Like so much else in his “Ring,” conducted by Kent Nagano at the Bavarian State Opera here, it is a simple, modest gesture. Music Review: A ‘Ring’ Fit for a Time of Austerity 2012-07-17T12:00:00Z

Their children are homeschooled, maintain modest dress and avoid sources of entertainment their parents deem inappropriate. Who Are the Duggars? Meet the "19 Kids and Counting" Family 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z

Nondescript main streets in modest nautical towns unfurl past pale clapboard houses. In Nova Scotia, Homes as Wild as the Landscape Around Them 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z

The start of the finale of the Concerto No. 17 was modest, propulsive, fluent: qualities that also characterized the Philharmonic’s performance, between the two concertos, of the overture to Mozart’s “The Magic Flute.” Lang Lang Shares the Spotlight With the Philharmonic 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z

They were not speculators and were unwilling to sell, even though they were often of modest means. Special Report: Art in Perspective: Market Surges for Works by 20th-Century Prague Artists 2011-03-03T12:23:45Z

The V&A's investment in the project is now much greater than goodwill, modest loans and the loan of temporary travelling exhibitions. Dundee V&A will not open until 2015 at the earliest 2013-01-08T18:25:42Z

Like the more modest bungalows on Oglesby, the elegant houses and grounds of the Highlands have become harder targets in the years since I left home. The Unexpected Power of Your Old Neighborhood 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z

And he affectingly conveyed the emotions of a monarch who finds himself discombobulated by his yearning for a winsome, modest young woman. Review: A ‘La Donna del Lago’ With Melting Tenderness at the Met 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z

Hendrix was buried there, originally with a modest grave, because his father, the late Al Hendrix, couldn't afford any other cemetery. Vision for Hendrix Park as vibrant as namesake 2011-08-15T04:01:24Z

Recently renovated, the two-story house is clad in vertical wood slats that echo the original design, its front façade marked by modest windows overlooking the grounds. Truman Capote’s Former Hamptons Home Off the Market 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z

He’s a modest vocalist but still a strong one, without a signature tone to help him stand out. Critic?s Notebook: Eric Church and Jason Aldean, Country Music Outlaws 2012-03-28T23:11:05Z

This novel about a modest life in the rural Midwest serves as a luminous history of 20th-century America. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z

Lively and floral, with modest mineral and citrus flavors. Chardonnay, the Oregon Way 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z

This fall’s most intriguing openings range from the modest to the luxurious. The 2017 Fall Restaurant Preview 2017-08-29T04:00:00Z

And with it premiering the next day on Amazon Freevee, an ad-supported streaming platform few were familiar with, expectations for the show’s success were modest, if not outright low. Their Show Flew Under the Radar. TikTok Blew It Up. 2023-06-08T04:00:00Z

The Trinidad Theatre, named for the site’s neighborhood, is a modest black box that seats about 100; so is the in-the-round venue upstairs. Fringe festival’s new cry: Eastward Ho! 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z

But its goals are so modest, so tiny, so timid that fulfillment is exactly what it does not provide. | 'Letters to Juliet': Amanda Seyfried Helps Reunite Lovers in Verona 2010-05-13T21:17:00Z

This doc runs through it all in fine fashion, although there's the odd moment when you wish Alpert were pushed further in interview, if only because he's the most unassuming and modest pop star imaginable. New Tricks 2010-09-17T05:45:00Z

As I lay down, I had to keep my knees bent; I would evidently endure eternity in modest discomfort. I?m Not Really a Corpse. I Just Played One Onstage. 2011-03-04T00:24:08Z

He entered mainstream politics and 25 years later, having charmed the country with his modest way of living and his bracingly spontaneous campaign style, he was elected Uruguay’s 40th president. A Political Prisoner Restores His Mind by Talking to a Frog 2021-08-03T04:00:00Z

From the outside of this modest three-story building, you’d never imagine the extent of what goes on in what you might call the flavor factory inside. In the Netherlands, a foray into cocktail history 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z

Her Twitter account, a funny, cranky and political corner of the social-media universe with a modest 18,300 followers, kept her connected. How Emily Nunn Turned Salad Into a Soapbox 2022-03-22T04:00:00Z

The American Queen, too, has had assorted incarnations, as Mr. Vasconcelos recounted one morning in a talk he gave in the boat’s Grand Saloon, a modest theater where something always seemed to be going on. The American Queen Paddle-Wheeler Cruises on the Mississippi 2012-06-01T19:22:58Z

So, charging a modest fee for admittance, they started opening their houses to the public. ‘Downton Abbey’ and the History of Difficult Royal Visits 2019-09-13T04:00:00Z

At the same time, with maximum faith in the ability of modest objects to carry meaning, he extends the tradition that began with Duchamp’s deadpan ready-mades. Danh Vo: An Artist at the Crossroads of History and Diary 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z

In 2010 the number of international visitors was up 300 percent from four years earlier, according to local government statistics — although the total number was still a modest 4,100 people. Next Stop: Off Tanzania, Serene Mafia Island 2012-01-27T18:02:32Z

Later that evening Nek Su and I eat dinner together in his modest kitchen – a meal of sweet lip fish, samosas and vegetables. History, harmony, and the only Muslim island in Australia | Ben Stubbs 2017-01-28T05:00:00Z

And worldwide, there’s a modest community of divers who live for the fleeting moments of the hunt. Off the North Carolina shore, a deep dive into history 2020-09-17T04:00:00Z

Scott described the film, which he designated a Critic’s Pick, as “relaxed, reflective and sweet, a romance shadowed by the complexities of history, race and politics that manages to be both modest and ambitious.” What’s on TV Monday: ‘My Brilliant Friend’ and ‘Cane River’ 2020-05-04T04:00:00Z

They had developed a modest following, but that song changed everything, as they found out when they arrived in Ohio to play a show. Jim Seals, Half of a Popular 1970s Soft-Rock Duo, Dies at 79 2022-06-07T04:00:00Z

This is a £1.5m project and it's on a more modest scale. Gallery opens in old Tetley brewery 2013-11-28T06:42:40Z

All that, and they are so much better for you — chock-full of produce, made with whole grain instead of refined, oil instead of butter, and a modest amount of added sugar. Make your mornings glorious with these easy, healthful muffins 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z

Inside the family’s modest, gracious house, the film relaxes and slows down, and Mr. Daniels reveals himself, once again, to be singularly adept at capturing the informal rhythms of leisure. Movie Review: ‘Lee Daniels’ The Butler’ Stars Forest Whitaker 2013-08-15T16:52:46Z

Fox's "The Following" finished a modest 15th place initially, but its audience jumped by 45 percent over the next week, enough to lift the show to fourth place. Harder and harder to measure TV viewership 2013-02-25T14:37:10Z

“There was magic in that modest farmhouse. Lunch was always a big production at Les Lalanne, and there was always something new and incredible to see in their studio.” Bronze Beasts Blur Line Between Furniture’s Wild Side and High Art 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z

There's one spectacular exception to Fincher's otherwise modest approach: the rowing sequence. 5. "The Social Network" 2010-12-30T23:01:00Z

Enjoy the views riding a chairlift up the off-season ski mountain and the modest thrills speeding down on a plastic sled. Where to go in Wyoming for a postcard-perfect cowboy summer 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z

But this new owner, local billionaire Glen Taylor, made only modest cuts, with the goal of trying to sustain a paper worth subscribing to, according to publisher and CEO Mike Klingensmith. Heath Freeman is the hedge fund guy who says he wants to save local news. Somehow, no one’s buying it. 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z

The back room serves as a modest dance floor on weekends. An Astrology-Themed Brooklyn Bar Filled With Art 2017-12-27T05:00:00Z

Seaman, who has worked at Storm King for almost 30 years, is modest about the role he and his crew play at Storm King. Who Mows the Lawn at Storm King, New York’s Largest Sculpture Park? 2019-07-12T04:00:00Z

It was there that Earl Henry Hamner Jr. grew up in such modest circumstances that his family owned few books other than the Bible and had no telephone. Earl Hamner Jr., 'The Waltons' Creator, Dies at 92 2016-03-25T04:00:00Z

They work on them year-round, each put together quickly, with a modest budget of a few million dollars, and then they debut a new one almost every night in December. We can’t take any more of 2017, so we’ve turned to the Hallmark Channel in desperation 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z

The centre, which opened in 2013, seems to be having some modest success. A tour of a changing capital 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z

Even Cruise's Nazi Germany drama "Valkyrie," which arrived with modest expectations two years ago, did better with $21 million in its first weekend. 'Toy Story 3,' Sandler are hot, Tom Cruise not 2010-06-27T20:16:00Z

They were visiting from Orange County in hopes of seeing a modest bloom. ‘Do Not Touch the Flowers!’ One Family’s Eco-Adventure in the American Southwest 2020-03-16T04:00:00Z

Adams and Waltz were cast and the film, reportedly made for a relatively modest $10 million, came together. At 87, ‘Big Eyes’ artist Margaret Keane gets her Hollywood break 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z

After a modest art-house release two years ago, "Middle of Nowhere" is finally coming to DVD. 'Gone Girl' a refreshingly adult tale of sex, violence and deceit 2015-01-10T05:00:00Z

The modest crop duster faces two problems, sizable ones at that: he's not built for racing and he is terrified of great heights. Disney's animated adventure 'Planes' enters tailwind of 'Cars' 2013-08-09T20:04:11Z

In one sat a Japanese family, wearing modest bathing suits. In a Rented RV, Roaming Western Roads 2012-05-20T04:47:18Z

He says he never looked for another job, though his salary was so modest he could not support his family without his wife also working. Loyalty takes butler from poor Nepal village to NY 2010-06-02T12:41:00Z

Our family’s only debt is a modest mortgage and an even more modest car payment. Motherlode Blog: The Price of a Child I Wouldn’t Let Go 2014-02-23T13:40:50Z

Unlike many of his peers, the Captain, alter ego of a scrawny “kid from Brooklyn” named Steve Rogers, is endowed with fairly modest powers. | 'Captain America': Hey, Brooklyn, Where Did You Get Those Muscles? 2011-07-21T12:00:01Z

If I redirect the conversation to the other person’s life after a modest non-answer, I’m being “secretive.” Carolyn Hax: Readers’ turn to offer wisdom while the columnist’s away 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z

L&D's is a modest set-up, but their permanent home suits them well – at one point they worked out of a room so small that it was subsequently converted into a toilet. Peter Robinson's Radio Daze: L&D Hospital Radio 2012-08-24T23:05:00Z

A short king isn’t just any male-presenting person of modest stature—it’s someone who has the strength of character to flourish despite contradicting conventional male beauty standards. In praise of short men: will the rise of 'short kings' spell the fall of toxic masculinity? 2019-06-21T04:00:00Z

The walled garden at the Bell-Grant residence in Charleston is lovely but modest compared with others in the region. The Bloomsbury Bohemians in the British Countryside 2017-05-09T04:00:00Z

Indeed, the piece’s comparatively modest Classicism defies showiness, with demands that are more intellectual than athletic. Review: Lang Lang Returns, Rehabilitated and Almost Reformed 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z

Nine stories of India, each of a religious worshipper, many of modest lower-caste backgrounds in the furthest corners of the country. Facts rule: 8 great nonfiction books 2013-06-14T17:29:09Z

From a modest but complicated task came a dramatic innovation. The Chapter: A History 2014-10-29T04:00:00Z

In the 1950s and ’60s Mr. Kastle enjoyed a modest reputation as a composer of melodic, romantic operas and as a musical director of works for the stage. Leonard Kastle, Composer and Filmmaker, Dies at 82 2011-05-22T02:23:04Z

Moving, amusing and truthful, the film is a modest, not unduly sentimental work that touches in a light but far from slight way on subjects that will eventually be faced by all of us. Quartet – review 2013-01-06T00:08:41Z

So far, sales of the new edition have been modest — about 24,000 copies are in print — but it seems to have found an audience among women yet to embrace the organic, clean-food movement. Peg Bracken?s Cookbook Returns, Canned Soup and All 2010-08-18T22:03:00Z

Client by client, he built his own modest, family law practice. My father, his honor: Losing his prestigious job likely saved his life 2019-06-15T04:00:00Z

Broadway of late has had a modest record minting male musical theater stars. He?s Not an Impostor; He Plays One Onstage 2011-03-20T02:26:58Z

In 1985, after a modest campaign to identify America’s cowboy poets, Cannon and several others established the inaugural Cowboy Poetry Gathering. My Cousin, the Cowboy Poet 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z

Mr. Hegarty himself was a modest figure within the larger tableaus, sometimes very still, sometimes gesturing. Music Review: Antony and the Johnsons at Radio City Music Hall 2012-01-28T01:02:07Z

The Turner Prize has lost much of its capacity to shock, but it can still deliver modest surprises: Critics and bookies were caught off guard in December when the 2013 honors went to Laure Prouvost. Art Review: Laure Prouvost Exhibition Opens at New Museum 2014-02-20T23:19:30Z

The caves in the other group, the southern group, are more modest in scale. Art Review: ‘Echoes of the Past,’ Chinese Buddhist Cave Art, in New York 2012-09-13T21:22:46Z

So bands and smaller labels are left to decide whether to spend a modest fortune in the hopes of cutting through the corporate noise. Few Dollars, but Maybe Career Sense, for Struggling Bands at SXSW 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z

The modest two-story, 1950s building used to be a neighborhood bank, and it still looks it, blending right into a raucous, fine-grained urban melee that would gladden the heart of Jane Jacobs. Swiss Institute Has a New Home Ready-Made for Art 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z

Following in his father's footsteps, he already has a modest Internet Movie Database footprint, including a role in "Scouts vs. Zombies," due out in October. Premium genes: Meet 9 celeb scions fashion brands are banking on 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z

It's an artsy record but it's also very simple, with lots of repetition – I like repetition – and it's funky, but in a modest way. Robyn: Soundtrack of my life 2010-09-25T23:06:00Z

It’s a modest show: not many more than 50 comics, from the 1940s to the present, each presenting Tibet in its own way. Exhibition Review: ?Hero, Villain, Yeti: Tibet in Comics,? at Rubin Museum 2011-12-29T23:59:17Z

Out of this modest material she translated her stand-up sensibility into a relentlessly funny, elaborately inventive world. Critic’s Notebook: Maria Bamford’s ‘Special Special Special!’ Online 2012-12-17T05:09:03Z

Through the generosity of family and friends, a modest library of children’s books filled our shelves, including four copies of “The Very Hungry Caterpillar” and three copies of “Goodnight Moon.” Where Are All the Wild Things, Daddy? 2021-06-18T04:00:00Z

The Pearl Theater’s modest staging of “The Misanthrope,” a satire of polite society in which power plays and cruel gossip are the background to an unlikely romance, does not suffer from this crisis of confidence. | 'The Misanthrope': Pity Moli?re?s Poor Sap, Falling for All That He Despises 2011-01-24T22:09:08Z

Given that embedded bigotry, Scott’s modest crusade for social enlightenment may be naive, but it couldn’t be more relevant. Review | Stephen King’s Halloween book is shockingly . . . heartwarming? 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z

The orchestra is a modest institution devoted to a single discipline that performs in a variety of places, like Carnegie Hall and Caramoor. Brooklyn Academy of Music Chooses New President 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z

In its modest way, this marked the return of Jean Simmons, a prodigious daughter. 2010-01-24T20:25:00Z

What makes the modest ambition of “Conan” so strange is that Mr. O’Brien has one of the most inventive comic minds of his generation. Critic’s Notebook: Gee, Conan, That Joke Seems Familiar 2012-11-09T23:47:19Z

Its relatively modest scale — it is 76 feet tall at its highest point — fits nicely with both a row of brick academic buildings to the north and the houses to the south. Architecture Review: A Unified Home for Arts Education, With a Split Right Down the Middle 2011-03-09T23:05:21Z

The Broadway production will be capitalized at a relatively modest $5 million. 'Fun Home' Will Reach Broadway Just Before Tonys Deadline 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z

Sri Lanka, however, does require appropriate dress when visiting temples or holy sites, with some providing more modest attire for tourists wearing too little, The Guardian reports. Sri Lanka tourism department removing ‘improper’ bikini warnings from popular beach 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z

The characteristic Son Volt quality of folk meets rock and roll — back porch picking infused with Sun Studio raucousness under modest and heartfelt vocals delivering infectious melodies — is ever-present on “Union.” Son Volt's Jay Farrar is "singing about the dark times" on "Union," the new protest album 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z

The dining destination in question, After Peacock Room, hasn’t exactly made itself easy to access since its debut as a modest cafe last March. After Peacock Room review: Edible art emerges in a small Georgetown space 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z

Although the early reviews of the film have been generally positive, its opening weekend box office haul is expected to be a modest $17 million, according to boxoffice.com. Evil frog spawns international mayhem in 'Muppets Most Wanted' 2014-03-18T19:03:28Z

“That’s not an excuse” for a modest food scene, “ just reality.” Helsinki’s food scene, coming on strong

Fantastically amiable, modest, and unshowy, there is something gallant about her, too, as though, deep inside, she is always braced for adversity. Rachel Whiteread: 'I couldn't say no. It felt right to do this one' – interview 2012-07-07T19:19:01Z

She embarked on the arduous task of transcribing each story using brightly colored pens onto modest, white panels according to a predefined system. Ginny Bishton at Richard Telles: Short stories rewritten, on the wall 2015-05-03T04:00:00Z

Ms. Roberts’s kitchen is on the parlor floor, and rather modest, though she is installing Sapele mahogany counters. So You Want to Blow Out Your Brooklyn Brownstone 2019-05-01T04:00:00Z

Cable TV channel Lifetime said Monday that a modest 3.5 million Americans watched the film, which premiered last weekend. Lohan arrested in NY, charged also for California car smash 2012-11-29T21:30:34Z

The modest American four-square home in Hope, Ark., where the 42nd president lived his first four years will become the latest National Park historic site on Sunday. In Transit: Clinton's Boyhood Home Becomes Park Service Site 2010-12-30T21:54:00Z

It's a modest session, perhaps too close to classic Coltrane materials of the 1960s. Nat Birchall: Guiding Spirit 2010-05-20T21:30:00Z

I found it developed a great expression of fruit and spice several hours after opening — so here’s a modest wine worth decanting a few hours before dinner. Hang on to the summer with this fruity, spritzy $11 rosé 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z

He later admitted that my modest pioneer dress had made him think of me as a “good Christian girl,” and he was happy to find out otherwise. Modern Love: A Love for the Ages, but Which One? 2011-05-12T21:31:23Z

Available for a modest price without which the investment in knives is wasted. These Are the Only Kitchen Tools You Need 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z

New Chamber Ballet, Miro Magloire’s intimate ensemble, returns to its modest, low-tech home in the City Center Studios to present his new work to an original composition by the composer Michel Galante, a frequent collaborator. 10 Things to Do Now in NYC 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z

Since 2016, after a brief retirement from moviemaking, he has found a new auteurist groove with modest resources, fast shoots, boundless energy and a striking lack of preciosity about the medium. ‘KIMI’ Review: Sure She’s Paranoid, but Something Really Is Out There 2022-02-09T05:00:00Z

In modern times, it was championed in the UK and the US by Italian immigrants attracted to the gelato trade for its low running costs after the modest initial investment in equipment. Scoop of the year – my time studying at Gelato University 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z

As only the sixth hip-hop artist to join the hall of fame, Tupac Shakur also builds on the hall’s modest representation of rap music. Pearl Jam, Tupac Shakur and Joan Baez Will Join the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 2016-12-20T05:00:00Z

It’s a modest novel, elegantly worked, with a nice chilly twist at the end. Anne Rice's 'Prince Lestat,' and More 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z

Hamilton was always interested in the possibility of rewarding the elite without undermining the democratic spirit, and he was not a modest man. Museum Review: Alexander Hamilton?s Renovated Grange - Review 2011-09-15T22:35:12Z

So R.E.M.’s early video attempts were modest little art projects that Stipe oversaw. R.E.M.'s New Business Plan: Cashing In on ’90s Nostalgia 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z

Leila: Yes I am a bit of a goddess / Though I'm not very modest / But even a virgin / Has feminine urgings. Digested opera: The Pearl Fishers 2010-06-18T09:56:00Z

When other men told stories about the war, this modest major listened with a polite smile. How the Soviet Literary Establishment Censored Vasily Grossman 2019-06-19T04:00:00Z

Forty-five minutes is quite modest, and you've been accommodating with the time. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: A cautious, practical person contends with ‘tremendous wanderlust’ 2021-07-31T04:00:00Z

Day actually often played a wife and mother, or a sensible modest person. Doris Day: the wholesome face of postwar American optimism 2019-05-13T04:00:00Z

“It is difficult to understand how a modest delay in February would impact a run that was scheduled for late October.” Leaving Neverland: first trailer for 'devastating' Michael Jackson documentary 2019-02-19T05:00:00Z

But with a modest budget of under $30 million, "Entourage" doesn't necessarily need a big opening. Can 'Entourage' make a successful leap to the big screen? 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z

They are clad head to toe in black, buttoned to colllar and cuff, a modest selection of bling around their necks. From Viva Brother to Lovelife 2012-08-13T15:02:00Z

The modest museum, which focused at first on Vietnam vets but has since expanded, includes paintings, prints, drawings, poetry, photos, sculpture, collages and video. Vets preserve memories of war with their own art 2012-11-10T17:08:10Z

It’s called “New Year’s Day,” and it’s a modest ballad about that gust of clarity that always seems to arrive the morning after. Review | It’s Taylor Swift’s world. The rest of us just go insane in it. 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z

Despite the energetic and witty performances and the finely honed aesthetic of Aleksandra Pavlovic’s set design, this remains a modest production that operates within a small web of themes and motifs. A Splashy, Messy All-Naked Revue 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z

Bogarde became a star in the 1954 “Doctor in the House,” a modest comedy about the misadventures of a band of medical students. DVD: New on Video, ?Strike? and the Works of Dirk Bogarde 2011-08-27T03:43:02Z

In any case, six are way too many for Richard Greenberg’s hermetic family comedy, a modest story inflated to unwarranted size by what appears to be dramaturgical panic. Review: In ‘The Perplexed,’ Moral Gridlock on Fifth Avenue 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z

More modest but equally affecting are sculptures painstakingly knitted from copper wire. Marisa Merz retrospective at the Hammer gives an overlooked female artist her due 2017-07-15T04:00:00Z

“Photography Into Sculpture” was a modest exhibition that got mixed reviews and was not seen as defining a movement. ‘The Photographic Object, 1970’ Revisits a Renowned Show 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z

In the op-ed pages, citizens offered modest proposals for what to do with these structures. Voyages: My Debt to Ireland 2012-02-10T20:35:10Z

She is so restrained that some conservative religious women have, for years now, seen her as a style model and a paragon of modest dressing. Olivia Palermo Got a Lot Out of That Internship 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z

This was Sonatas and Interludes at a makeshift concert in the Blue Ridge Mountains, on a makeshift stage with a modest piano and before an audience of the tiny college's student body and faculty. How John Cage made performance the true heart of Black Mountain College 2016-04-09T04:00:00Z

To start the new year off right, here’s a sauvignon blanc from the Loire Valley that sports a modest Touraine designation but tastes more like a pricier Sancerre. This sauvignon blanc tastes like a splurge, but doesn’t cost like one 2020-12-31T05:00:00Z

In the artist’s ninety-fourth year, two institutions on opposite coasts are hosting modest presentations of her career, which began in fervor in 1960, more or less. MOMA’s Heady Introduction to Betye Saar, “The Conscience of the Art World” 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z

The other day, Scott Wiener, a city supervisor, recounted for me the saga of this relatively modest project at the heart of the formerly grungy, now fashionable Mission District, which he represents. San Francisco Repurposes Old for the Future 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z

Miss Sloane is an evening out for adults, the sort of modest but hardy pleasure that shouldn’t be taken for granted these days. Review: Jessica Chastain Dazzles in Miss Sloane, an Elegantly Scripted Drama for Grown-ups 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z

However, they are certain there is a modest effect caused by tobacco alone. Smoking tobacco might increase risk of schizophrenia, say researchers 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z

The commercials, which help cover the modest production budget, are mainly for pot-smoking paraphernalia, like a ketchup-bottle-shaped device called the Buddy Power Hitter. Talk show host's stoner dream comes true, and it's high time 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z

In truth, only in Manhattan could such a modest hill pass for “great.” Over Headphones and in a Truck, the Philharmonic Stays Alive 2020-09-14T04:00:00Z

Unlike the one at 91st Street, which becomes a wine bar at night, the latest will morph in the evening into a beer pub with 10 taps and a modest wine list. The Fall Restaurant Preview 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z

That might sound deceptively modest until you consider the success rate of the titles in question. Rondi Reed: The ultimate role player 2011-05-18T22:33:00Z

The payment was described as a “modest fee” in an email she received from the publisher. Want to Write a Cookbook? Don’t Count the Money Just Yet 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z

Nonetheless, when these films are tightly budgeted, the popularity of the mixed martial arts stars alone practically guarantees a modest profit. Breaking Into Movies via Mixed Martial Arts 2013-01-25T23:52:32Z

But in the record of 20th-century stage and film history, his modest place in the Beatles’ movie canon pretty much defined him. Victor Spinetti Dies at 82; Actor in All 3 Beatles’ Films 2012-06-20T03:42:37Z

For the next seven decades Roanoke thrived as a rail town, and many neighborhoods still feature the modest, tightly spaced housing of 20th-century working-class America. In Roanoke, Va., discovering a gateway to outdoor adventure 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z

She doesn’t want a rupture; as the production ascends from a modest folk-rock strum to a big harmony chorus, she only hopes honesty will clear the air, so “I can love you better.” A Lost (and Found) John Coltrane Recording, and 9 More New Songs 2023-06-02T04:00:00Z

In precise yet modest photographs, he pictured the archipelago as a string of mundane details in awkward suspension that crystallized the everyday into ghostly portraits of self and nation. What to See Right Now in New York Art Galleries 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z

He was serious about his work, but modest about his accomplishments. A mother lode of Huell Howser memorabilia 2014-05-24T04:00:00Z

Now, an estate of low-rise, modest homes stands on the site, with a large playground tucked away behind some back yards. Relatives seek truth about Irish babies 'discarded like litter' 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z

That means you sleep in clean but basic hotels and eat in modest restaurants or on your own. The Getaway: Tours for the Younger Traveler 2014-01-14T20:22:51Z

Crab noodles were freed from their modest cardboard container and ensconced in a pink Daybreak serving bowl; bok choy was dished with a matte black serving spoon. Disrupting the Dishes 2018-05-05T04:00:00Z

Fleet Street was a step up for Cobain, but Mr. Bell said that the modest, century-old house with red vinyl siding and newspapers covering the windows seemed mostly empty. Footsteps : Chasing Kurt Cobain in Washington State 2014-03-25T21:43:53Z

It got something fabulous when, a century or so ago, a modest Dutch textile manufacturer began sending brilliantly colored and patterned fabrics its way. Philadelphia Offers a Full-Fledged Summer of African Art 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z

When O’Reilly was under fire in 2015 for serial exaggerations about his exploits as a reporter, his ratings got a modest bump. Is this the end of Bill O’Reilly? That’s a complicated question. 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z

There isn’t space to list them all, but here’s a modest sampling: “I don’t think M. ought so often to speak ‘drily.’ Review: Ian Fleming’s James Bond Letters in ‘The Man With the Golden Typewriter’ 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z

A modest industry of medical speculation has grown up around the subject, evidence of our fascination with what cut down great creative artists in history. After Mozart?s Death, an Endless Coda 2010-08-24T17:50:00Z

Executed in colored pencil, they are modest, completely riveting and highly unstable. Best Art Exhibitions of 2021 2021-12-07T05:00:00Z

His latest drawings favor gentleness and modest size while an extraordinary variety of texture, space and light affirm his abiding interest in process and materials. Museum & Gallery Listings for Oct. 23-29 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z

A modest woman, a committed Mormon, she loved books, had always conjured up stories, but had previously thought the idea of writing anything herself would be presumptuous. Stephenie Meyer on Twilight, feminism and true love 2013-03-11T06:00:03Z

But it did nothing to cut the chill in the bathroom, which was an outhouse a modest walk through the trees. Going Backcountry, Three Ways 2013-05-17T18:47:13Z

During the 1930s, Orwell had modest success as an essayist, journalist and novelist. Orwell’s ideas remain relevant 75 years after "Animal Farm" was published 2021-08-28T04:00:00Z

There was little of what has become known as “modest” fashion — chic yet conservative designs, often with long sleeves and ankle-length hemlines. Saudi Arabia Just Had Its First Fashion Week 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z

College coaches, especially in sports played by the wealthy, often supplement their modest salaries by taking outside pupils. The Unseen Student Victims of the “Varsity Blues” College-Admissions Scandal 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z

Dan, for instance, requested a modest fantasy: a picture of a “black female with hazel eyes,” with “orange and blue in the sky” and a Mercedes-Benz of “powder blue.” Photo Requests from Solitary Confinement 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z

The band takes pride in being proficient but not flashy, and even the album’s most elaborately multitracked and programmed arrangements come across as modest. 2010-02-06T00:53:00Z

With a farmer’s diligence and a detective’s ingenuity, the painter Thomas Nozkowski marked out and cultivated a deceptively modest territory for nearly five decades. Thomas Nozkowski’s Final Statement 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z

So my initial objective was modest: to trace the path backward, from Pennsylvania to Sicily. Digging Up Family Roots in Sicily 2013-08-16T16:15:11Z

She lives with her fellow campaigner and partner of 19 years, Nina Lopez, in a modest flat in London. A life in writing: Selma James 2012-06-08T21:45:05Z

Alison is a local who works in a diner and lives in a more modest but still enviable beach house inherited from her grandfather, a fisherman. ‘The Affair’ on Showtime Stars Dominic West and Ruth Wilson 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z

About a decade ago, Nagle was an aspiring writer with a modest résumé. 'The Good Lie's' Sudanese survivor actors revisit searing war horrors 2014-09-27T04:00:00Z

Muniz is a gifted, modest and altogether delightful man, and his project is both aesthetically fascinating and philosophically stimulating. Waste Land ? review 2011-02-27T00:05:33Z

He took over the studio in 2015, setting in motion a grueling turnaround effort and finding modest hits like “The Shallows” and “Baby Driver.” ‘Spider-Man’ Still Has Box Office Bite, to Sony’s Relief 2017-07-09T04:00:00Z

His trim gray suit and chunky gold wristwatch go nicely with the black Mercedes-Benz sedan parked in front of his mother’s modest Baltimore house. Movie Review: Sheldon Candis’s ‘Luv,’ About Becoming a Man 2013-01-17T22:51:52Z

"The Great War," a modest, handcrafted multimedia gem, provoked such disproportionately big and chilling thoughts. 'The Great War's' portrayal of WWI battlefield horror proves ingenious 2015-04-19T04:00:00Z

Wilco’s “Cruel Country” makes a modest first impression for a magnum opus. Wilco Makes an Understated Magnum Opus 2022-05-26T04:00:00Z

The great natural monument, lichen dappled and framed within a modest clearing, always surprises me when I approach it. Personal Journeys: Walking Martha?s Vineyard 2011-08-12T18:55:00Z

But it is modest progress, for the sense of Islam as a monolith lingers, in places both expected and unexpected. Mohsin Hamid: 'Islam is not a monolith' 2013-05-19T19:00:07Z

For Food Network viewers of his generation, cooking represented not just a way to earn a modest but steady living, but also a potential path to stardom. Vice Bets on an Unlikely Food Star: Action Bronson 2016-02-16T05:00:00Z

Clegg lets these modest, wounded people pace back and forth across the graves of their loved ones. Bill Clegg’s ‘Did You Ever Have a Family’ navigates grief and recovery 2015-09-01T04:00:00Z

Early tallies for the 2011-12 year show a modest dip in borrowing over the previous year, but the data is incomplete and won’t be fully updated for months. Are student loans the new subprime mortgages? 2012-10-07T14:00:00Z

Its dark, earthy fruit flavors are interlaced with savory, meaty herbal tones that make it versatile with many foods and give it a complexity that belies its modest price. 20 Wines for Under $20: The Spring Edition 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z

If the museum does survive, it will clearly be in a more modest form. American Folk Art Museum Weighs Survival Strategies 2011-08-24T22:31:45Z

The Egg's modest size and fun, curvy lines make this a great venue for children's theatre. Alice Through the Looking Glass ? review 2010-12-17T22:30:01Z

In fact, the country is packed with small shops, eateries and bars that are modest, homey and agreeably low-tech. Fawning over fauna: A guide to Tokyo’s menagerie of animal cafes 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z

The film was well received by horror audiences and is considered a modest success. Sundance Sensation Robert Eggers Is Going To Remake 1922's Vampire Classic 'Nosferatu' 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z

Even though it was filmed in 3D -- rather than converted in post-production -- the film cost a modest $19 million to make. "Jackass" daredevils top box office for third time 2010-10-18T01:58:00Z

Against dark backgrounds, brushstrokes by turns delicate, dimpled and confidently supple coalesce to describe modest bouquets of moss roses, lilacs and plump peonies. Review | Édouard Manet spent his final days in excruciating pain — and creating his most thrilling art 2019-06-05T04:00:00Z

Despite the production’s stage-filling sets and its willingness to tinker with details of plot and character, the overall impact on Saturday was modest. Review: Cheers, but Modest Impact, for Revisionist ‘Tristan’ 2015-07-26T04:00:00Z

The most scenic spots are more for weekenders and vacationers these days than modest locals. In Certifiably Happy Norway, a Cranky Traveler Finds Some Bliss (Within Reason) 2017-12-30T05:00:00Z

Mr. Sharif’s movie roles became increasingly wobbly and beyond his admittedly modest range. Omar Sharif, international heartthrob of ‘Lawrence of Arabia’ and ‘Doctor Zhivago,’ dies at 83 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z

Sunk into the desert floor in the southern Mojave, it's 5 feet deep and measures a modest 11 feet by 5 feet. The swimming pool, symbol of Southern California, takes a dip 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z

But on the whole, the city is admirably modest about its stardom, with hardly any visible attempts to cash in on its role as King’s Landing. The fantasy world of real-life Dubrovnik, Croatia

However, growing youth unemployment, soaring house prices and the global pandemic have reversed the modest reduction in inequality experienced in recent years under the progressive Moon Jae-in Government. "Squid Game": The real debt crisis shaking South Korea that inspired the hit TV show 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z

This is on a certain level a modest book, one that isn’t going to drive other young short story writers into the shadows. ‘Lot’ Offers a Fictional Look at a Vibrant, Polyglot American City 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z

When you watch someone excelling at something – anything – while being so modest about it, they’re hard not to like. ‘I was pretty much mute at school’: how Bake Off’s Kim-Joy found happiness 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z

They are, indeed, under water, carrying debt on their modest house in Philadelphia that is much larger than its post-real-estate-bubble value. | 'Warrior': ?Warrior,? Directed by Gavin O?Connor - Review 2011-09-08T16:26:17Z

“Be More Chill,” a modest teenage sci-fi rom-com, turned up on Broadway in February as an overproduced, overamplified exercise in frantic excess and recently had to announce the end of its short life there. Review | I enjoyed ‘Be More Chill’ this time. And no, that isn’t the wine talking. 2019-07-23T04:00:00Z

To those of us watching in our modest multiplex seats, he is a movie star. Movie Review: ‘The Great Gatsby,’ Interpreted by Baz Luhrmann 2013-05-09T12:00:01Z

It is also, within its very modest means, formally audacious. Xavier Dolan’s ‘Mommy’ Depicts a Clashing Mother and Son 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z

"The modest fashion line is actually very new." Turkey's first International Modest Fashion Week has opened in Istanbul, gathering designers and models of conservative wear from around the world 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z

He said the architect’s politics were well known and the museum never intended them to be the focus of the fairly modest exhibition. Le Corbusier’s Architecture and His Politics Are Revisited 2015-07-12T04:00:00Z

It was a work about the environment and resources and world hunger, and it offered not only protest, not only beauty, but also, in its own modest way, a solution. Review | Neglected visionary Agnes Denes altered our landscape with her art. At 88, she’s finally getting her due. 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z

Yet even this relatively modest proposal seems detached from the practical realities of this heavily used but minimally maintained park. Review | In the galleries: Artists examine the divide between people and their surroundings 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z

In Milan’s Chinatown, Corey’s Soul Chicken appears at first to be nothing more than a modest cafe occupying the ground floor of an unassuming gray building facing a pleasant pedestrian zone. Buffalo Wings, Milan Style 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z

And so did three more of Hollywood's top actors - Robert De Niro, Michael Douglas and Kevin Kline - in what turned out to be an embarrassment of casting riches for a film of somewhat modest means. Buddy comedy 'Last Vegas' hits jackpot with senior star wattage 2013-10-31T12:02:24Z

It’s little more than a modest scattering of recipes and dining recommendations for South East London. ‘Chinatown Kitchen,’ reviewed: I kept going back for more 2015-08-31T04:00:00Z

Describing his own career, he said, “It’s modest, but to be at my age and have lived my whole life being an actor is a kind of a triumph.” Wrestling With His Past. And an Animatronic Shark. 2023-07-25T04:00:00Z

Despite ecstatic reviews, "Cosmos" has generated a relatively modest audience of about 4 million viewers in a tough Sunday time slot opposite "Game of Thrones." 'Cosmos' co-creator Ann Druyan looks back in wonder on her odyssey 2014-06-07T04:00:00Z

But like Portland, Ore., or Austin, Tex., it’s also a town many times more creative and cosmopolitan than its modest population and municipal troubles suggest. 36 Hours in Providence, R.I. 2012-07-11T21:32:20Z

She grew up in a modest hotel run by her parents in a French seaport village, sharing a room with her younger brother. Still the Boss of Le Bernardin, Maguy Le Coze Strides On 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z

Chamber Orchestra is a relatively modest organization that spends a little less than $4 million annually. L.A. Chamber Orchestra names Scott Harrison as executive director 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z

These storefronts and two more are sheltered in five contiguous sheds, modest quarters that share a false facade above the windows. A rare look at Fourth & Pine way back when 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z

"Superman's mythical origins are rooted in the timeless reality of a spiritual superhero who also lived a modest life until extraordinary times required a supernatural response," the notes read. Man of Steel marketing campaign seeks to align Superman with Jesus 2013-06-19T10:58:30Z

A modest man with immoderate talent, he inspires a rare concentration in these players. Review: Manfred Honeck Coaxes a Burnished Sound From the New York Philharmonic 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z

“He’s the best, and just the most amazing, creative, modest genius I ever met,” she gushes. T Magazine: Ruby Aldridge, Runaround 2011-10-14T14:38:38Z

Her observation of the fragility and loveliness of daily life is so sharp and her commentary so droll, trenchant and precise that the modest world she describes becomes almost numinous. Review | ‘Brood,’ a quiet meditation on the small stuff, makes for a perfect pandemic read 2021-03-04T05:00:00Z

Each sentence in Raman’s supple translation is modest, sculpted and clean, but behind each you sense a fund of deep wisdom about the vagaries of the rains, politics, behavior — human and animal. One of India’s Most Original and Controversial Novelists Returns With a Powerful Parable 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z

In the right-hand corner is Kinky Boots, based on a modest 2005 British movie, with 13 nominations. Tony awards 2013: Matilda and Kinky Boots slug it out 2013-04-30T15:49:52Z

A more pragmatic solution for skeptics is to administer Nabokov in modest doses, a page or two at a time, before working up to full chapters. The Essential Vladimir Nabokov 2023-10-15T04:00:00Z

She comes from a family of modest means. In Praise of Doris Burke, Basketball’s Best TV Analyst 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z

“Balance and modest extraction are crucial to guard the nobility of the wine.” The Wines of Irouléguy, in French Basque Country 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z

The resort offers modest luxuries — air-conditioning, fresh Italian pasta in its central lobby restaurant, which fronts a pool and a line of bungalows — though no Internet or phones in the rooms. Next Stop: Indonesia’s Karimunjawa Is a Watery Wonderland 2012-05-25T19:27:33Z

“But I don’t want to be falsely modest either, because to not recognize that there must be some skill set at work is silly as well.” Winning a BAFTA? Just One of Joanna Scanlan’s Career Surprises. 2023-01-20T05:00:00Z

"I'm a modest dresser, so I was looking for something that wasn't strapless." Emmy fashions lean toward bright colors, simple lines 2011-09-19T03:43:05Z

In 2016, Singapore made history when two modest food stalls – one serving chicken rice and the other pork noodles – were among dining venues featured in the Singapore guide. Thailand reaches for the stars with new Michelin Guide 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z

An adorable, brilliant, modest, hilarious, innovative and irreplaceable comic master. Tributes pour in for Oldham's funniest son, Eric Sykes 2012-07-04T12:26:00Z

That is very, very rare in my modest experience of these things, but that is a great thing and his attitude is to be widely commended to everybody. The Old London Underground Company haunts City Hall 2010-06-15T14:08:00Z

His modest home was recently renovated and turned into a museum, Muhammad Ali Childhood Home. What to See in Muhammad Ali’s Louisville 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z

But change is relative, and if Mr. Pereira’s innovations at the venerable festival look significant, it is partly because those of his immediate predecessors were modest. Music: New Director of Salzburg Festival Plans an Adventurous Course 2011-08-31T11:00:06Z

By spring I'd arranged to give him to the Toronto Zoo, a modest operation back then. Wings of desire: why birds captivate us 2013-07-27T07:00:07Z

And the car — a modest hatchback I vowed would never be used to haul lime, hay bales, tools, buckets of manure or plants — is now, indelibly, a gardener’s car. For the gardener, cleanliness is next to . . . impossible 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z

Set the hose stream on a modest flow. Perspective | Your plants are parched. How you water makes all the difference. 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z

In her book, Ms. Brantmark extols the behaviors of a modest Swedish life: sleeping naked, buying secondhand furniture, crafting, eating lots of herring. Hygge Gets Heave-Ho as Swedes, Norwegians Join the Fun 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z

The film has modest box office appeal but will have to overcome mixed reviews. 2010-01-22T03:30:00Z

“Noah” ultimately took in about $362 million around the world, a relatively modest return, given its production budget of about $125 million and a commensurately large marketing expense. 'Exodus: Gods and Kings' Portrays the Deity as a Boy 2014-11-28T05:00:00Z

A few days ago, a fifty-per-cent-off clearance-sale sign appeared in the window of St. Mark’s Bookshop’s modest storefront on East Third Street, near Avenue A, and this time it is really the end. What Went Wrong at St. Mark’s Bookshop 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z

It was made on such modest means so many years ago. ArtsBeat: Just So You Know: 'John Dies at the End' 2013-01-24T19:00:30Z

The Vatican says that Francis himself, lodged far from the Vatican’s palatial papal rooms, is driven in a modest compact car. Fashion and the Power of the Pulpit 2013-07-15T12:12:14Z

The replica house, a wooden structure with red paint, is modest by today’s standards. Two Virginia estates central to George Washington’s life share little common ground 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z

It’s a waltz that leaves her deliberately exposed; most of it is accompanied only by her own “spindy” plucking on a mandolin, joined occasionally by a modest string arrangement. Review: On the Debut Album by Mothers, Austere Honesty 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z

Mr. Tune’s voice is modest by the stentorian requirements of Broadway. Review: ‘Tommy Tune, Tonight!’ Is the Musical Autobiography of a Showbiz Trouper 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z

In contrast to the gleaming torso he displayed in the past, D’Angelo was a relatively modest presence in a derby hat and loose-fitting clothes Thursday. Concert review: Mary J. Blige and D'Angelo at the United Center 2012-09-14T07:07:00Z

A community of the wise and thoughtful, these conscientious commenters are often far too modest to attach their real name to the pearls of insight they donate to the internet's treasure chest of opinion. David Mitchell: are smug Apple users losing their cachet? 2010-06-05T23:06:00Z

But the Colonel Harland Sanders Cafe and Museum is a modest must. Journeys: In Kentucky, Fried Chicken History 2012-08-24T18:21:19Z

He was exceptionally modest, describing himself as “a 260-pound Woody Allen.” Actor James Gandolfini, who created Tony Soprano, dies in Italy at 51 2013-06-20T03:08:11Z

Despite her natural simplicity and modest stage demeanor, there’s something heroic in Oppens’s musical persona. Ursula Oppens shows why she’s a champion of American piano music 2016-02-05T05:00:00Z

Mr. Lambert, who wrote the screenplay with Michael Dowling, aims for a modest, old-fashioned yarn about a time when people believed in the news media. Review: In ‘Brave New Jersey,’ a Martian Invasion That Wasn’t 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z

In my investment firm, when we like a security after careful analysis, we buy a modest quantity. Roy R. Neuberger Dies at 107; Applied a Stock Trader?s Acumen to Art 2010-12-25T04:31:59Z

No matter the origin or the purpose for eating it, though, the modest pudding's legacy and importance is undisputed. The magical, reliable allure of rice pudding 2023-09-27T04:00:00Z

The exhibition is being planned for a relatively modest 850-square-foot gallery on the third floor of the building. After Criticism, Film Museum Will Highlight Hollywood’s Jewish History 2022-03-21T04:00:00Z

Yet even the CBO’s modest cost savings projections are likely overstated.” FTC Commissioner: Accountable Care Organizations Will Likely Lead to 'Higher Costs and Lower Quality Health Care' 2011-11-21T23:24:34Z

Mr. Besson was editing “Anna” at the time, and Ms. Van Roy had a modest role that could easily be cut. An Influential French Director Is Accused of Sexual Abuse. The Reaction Has Been Muted. 2018-07-30T04:00:00Z

Maybe she just made me seem more wonderful because she wrote it and I didn’t have to be modest for myself. Date Lab: So, his Mom picks his date. How’d that go?

He lived alone by choice, in a modest farmhouse, where he spent hours each day designing, sketching and folding. Eric Joisel, French Sculptor of Origami, Dies at 53 2010-10-20T04:06:00Z

Coe even makes a cameo appearance in the second episode - though he's modest about his acting impact. Olympic satire 'Twenty Twelve' hits close to home 2011-04-07T11:46:05Z

The Northern Ireland conflict was difficult enough to understand while it was happening, but it always possessed a broader symbolic importance than its modest scale demanded. Inside the Troubles of “’71″: This Belfast war thriller is (almost) an Iraq war movie in disguise 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z

Hard to believe she would blend in, even in Cambridge, other than due to her modest presence. In Julia Child’s Provençal Kitchen 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z

Seventy per cent of the population considered itself working-class and it now voiced modest aspirations with hugely radical potential. The Spirit of '45: where did it go? 2013-03-02T16:00:02Z

The group was headlining a triple bill — with the band Low and a solo-piano set by Eluvium, a k a Matthew Cooper — that elevated modest brooding to monumental scale. Music Review: Guitar Rock, Stretched on the Canvas of a Big Stage 2011-04-07T21:56:34Z

In the village below, you’ll find a lovely but sleepy base area of brightly painted frontier-style buildings that house a modest spa, an enticing bakery, several restaurants and — not much else. 12 Months of Skiing, From Chile to China 2012-12-07T17:07:45Z

It was no modest entrance: Carsen greeted the piece’s messiness with a spectacle of smoothly shifting registers of sincerity and sarcasm. Robert Carsen Is Opera’s Most Reliably Excellent Director 2021-08-09T04:00:00Z

Far from the soaring ceilings of Eleven Madison Park, a modest storefront on Flushing’s Main Street houses Fang Gourmet Tea, long a gathering spot for Chinese tea aficionados. New York’s Tea Lovers Find an Expanding Dating Pool 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z

After a brief interrogation, father and daughter are relocated to a modest house adjacent to a tree farm. Review: ‘Leave No Trace’ Is a Very American Story About Survival 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z

The second floor includes her unprepossessing but charming early sculpture: the “Bottle People Series,” modest glass bottles humanized with headdresses and such, made in 1997, while she was at The Cooper Union. Wangechi Mutu: An Imagined World Made Possible 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z

Being bold and modest at the same time is tricky, but Parquet Courts did just that Saturday night at the Black Cat. Sounds of Parquet Courts echo those of its myriad predecessors, influencers 2015-02-08T05:00:00Z

From modest beginnings the music unfurls to become ever more complex, rich and rewarding. Steve Reich, London Sinfonietta; Mitsuko Uchida; Tallis Scholars – review 2013-03-10T00:06:07Z

But exploding Ernst's modest floorboard drawing to monumental scale does say something about the technique's relative enormity in subsequent art history. 'Apparitions' at the Hammer explores low-tech art in a high-tech world 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z

I’m sure we had the most modest tax returns of anybody in the place, but we were treated well enough. My Upper East Side Story: Pizza, Schnitzel, a Piano Bar 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z

Amy Kaufman describes this as "only a modest box office success ... a healthy sum ... but not blockbuster money." Feedback: Cats and dogs making the scene 2015-05-16T04:00:00Z

But one day I was looking through the family photograph album, a modest little book with tiny black-and-white photographs from the 1920s and ’30s. Solving the Mystery of a Mother’s Brief Disappearance, 90 Years Later 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z

The drawing was bought in the 1950s by Reading's professor of fine art who had a modest budget to buy drawings to use for teaching purposes. Rubens drawing emerges from Reading University store cupboard 2013-05-28T16:19:23Z

You carve a modest piece out of a vast, new land, and then you see someone on a TV screen whose arc feels proximate to yours. A YouTube Journey Through Rap Tributes to Soccer Stars 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z

Updike dismissed it as ‘entertainment, not literature, even literature in a modest, aspirant form’. Tom Wolfe vs. John Updike, Norman Mailer and John Irving — and other timeless literary feuds 2019-06-23T04:00:00Z

Its special effects are pretty minimal, its scope is modest, and it is, in the end, more touching than terrifying, intent on jolting its audience not with dread but with compassion. Review: In ‘When Animals Dream’ a Teenager’s Secret Is a Revelation Even to Her 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z

A pale white nun emerged from a modest building. High in the Mountains and Monasteries of Georgia 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z

For a quieter, more modest cultural fix, try the museum and chapel at the San Fernando Rey de España Mission, one of the most impeccably preserved sites from California’s Spanish colonial era. Cultured Traveler: Los Angeles? The Valley Is Way Cooler 2012-07-19T20:12:06Z

Whereas with “Cabin in the Woods” the budget is lower and I would assume the expectations are more modest. “Snow White and the Huntsman”: A would-be fantasy classic 2012-05-30T23:00:00Z

For opera fans missing the thrill of new stagings and premieres, Philadelphia’s modest but steady diet of virtual content — more than merely a pandemic substitute — promises to be one of the best bets going, worldwide. Prompted by the Pandemic, Opera Philadelphia Innovates Online 2021-01-22T05:00:00Z

In addition to sending me to my modest comics library, her references to visual culture also sent me racing down a nice twisty rabbit hole. The Hand of the Comic Artist 2017-12-11T05:00:00Z

The latest numbers from the Congressional Budget Office, which does so adjust, show only a modest increase in middle incomes from 2000 to 2013. Getting Better All the Time? 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z

In 2009, after the filming of Benda Bilili! was completed and just before the band's UK debut at the Barbican, I made a more modest report on the band for television. From street to screen: the story of Staff Benda Bilili 2011-02-24T22:00:01Z

Pandemic-driven disruptions in the global supply chain have made even modest chest freezers scarcely obtainable since last spring. In the Kitchens of the Rich, Things Are Not as They Seem 2021-08-31T04:00:00Z

This modest vegetarian cafe, established in Ithaca’s hippy heyday, has been called one of the most influential restaurants in the country. The best towns and small cities in the US: Ithaca, New York state 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z

The recipe doesn’t veer far from Grandma’s, except that rather than refined sugar I use a modest amount of maple syrup, which adds a lovely layer of flavor. This maple-kissed banana pudding will remind you of the simple pleasures of childhood 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z

Produced by Ms. Merchant, the music is modest but not austere; strings and horns arrive unobtrusively. Critic’s Notebook: Albums by Natalie Merchant, Tori Amos and Sarah McLachlan 2014-05-07T21:46:14Z

One of the quiet charms of “Duck Butter,” a sweetly funny, sometimes tough little movie about a woman on a journey into self, is how its modest scale works in its favor. Review: ‘Duck Butter’ and the 24-Hour ‘for Real’ Relationship 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z

“I can’t remember exactly when I bought it, but it was for a very modest sum,” he said. Inside Art: Elevating a Nobody to Somebody 2011-03-24T21:45:14Z

Joo, modest and loyal, is careful to avoid the temptations that lie in his path at every turn. Movie Review: ‘The Taste of Money,’ Directed by Im Sang-soo 2013-01-25T01:23:02Z

Despite all the online hype, “Sharknado” was watched by about 1.37 million viewers, according to Nielsen, only a modest improvement over the channel’s usual Thursday night performance. ‘Sharknado’ Tears Up Twitter, if Not the TV Ratings 2013-07-12T22:19:18Z

The paloma is a modest and simple drink, sort of like a rum and coke. Happy Hour: Seattle bars welcome The paloma from down south 2011-05-17T21:19:05Z

Robbe-Grillet calls for the creation of a new form of fiction that reflects the "more modest, less anthropomorphic world" we live in today – one which is "neither significant nor absurd," but simply is. In theory: Towards a New Novel 2010-05-13T15:17:00Z

"Crazy Heart" is exceptionally modest in both its ambitions and its scope, which may be why I've already heard some fellow critics grumbling that there's no there there. 2009-12-16T01:15:00Z

The looping, spellbinding music produced by her windup toys became a fitting tribute to the modest, repetitive and yet quietly heroic work of women. Phyllis Chen Performs With Toy Pianos and Music Boxes 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z

There was Ms. Reeves, stopping by Hitsville U.S.A., the astoundingly modest row house in which so much great Motown magic was born. Books of The Times: ‘Ready for a Brand New Beat’ Looks at a Martha Reeves Oldie 2013-07-04T22:52:12Z

In a nearby part of Allman Town that his mother calls “the heart of the ghetto,” Mr. Allen was raised in a modest frame structure set behind a gate of corrugated aluminum. Jamaica Puts a Different Face on the Runways 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z

I have to be more modest now that I'm a mama," she says, "but I loved those days when I could really wear what I wanted to. Anna Netrebko: 'I can make Manon ... bad' 2010-06-17T21:10:00Z

The challenge was to come up with a modest spinoff project that would salvage some of his ideas and ultimately stand on its own. Film: Indie Filmmaker?s Seat-of-the-Pants Solutions 2011-02-12T06:33:51Z

I just hope you’re not suggesting it’s because men are naturally more modest and professional. @Work Advice: The case of the offensive cleavage 2016-05-31T04:00:00Z

Cuts to national arts institutions ended up being relatively modest as a result. Abroad: In Italy, a Political Opera About Opera 2010-12-10T19:15:00Z

Hawley House, a modest yellow fixture with white shutters and a front porch made for housing soul-touching conversations, is unique in its approach to recovery. A sanctuary for women in recovery 2017-08-28T04:00:00Z

But there’s something modest about Tank that can make his carefully studied songs feel slightly distant. Music Review: Suffering of a Noble, Romantic Soul Man 2010-12-16T06:30:05Z

“While the immediate jump in bookings is encouraging, the overall booking volume compared to the equivalent week in 2019 is modest,” said Olivier Ponti, the firm’s vice president of insights. ‘Fortress Australia’ has a new message: Come back 2022-02-18T05:00:00Z

The handsome, modest Como was the crooner king of variety TV, and once or twice in ’50s polls he topped President Eisenhower as America’s favorite person. Andy Williams: A Farewell Song for the "Moon River" Man 2012-09-26T22:34:50Z

It would not be rational of the coalition to make deep cuts into the relatively modest budget for arts subsidy in a place like the north-east. Arts funding cuts 'dangerous' for north-east England 2010-07-27T12:58:00Z

The resulting works are at once modest and poignant, rooted in time and place, but also deliberately open to other times, other lives, other possibilities. Review | This photographer transcends his medium — by turning day into night and past into present 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z

Then, in the 1970s, she reinvented herself again, performing a more modest pop-and-standards cabaret act in places like Cleo’s and the Rainbow Grill in Manhattan. Joyce Bryant, Sensual Singer Who Changed Course, Dies at 95 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z

The songs of “Joanne” are confident but modest at best, middling at worst. Review | Lady Gaga tries on yet another new hat at Capital One Arena — but it doesn’t quite fit 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z

A warm, overwhelmingly modest woman who, for many years, remained ignorant of her published work’s impact on the zoological community, she recounts without bitterness a career destroyed and a life’s dream derailed by academic sexism. ‘The Woman Who Loves Giraffes’ Review: Crackers for Animals 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z

The best rooms have migrated from below to above, the most modest from above to below. The dying world of “Grand Budapest Hotel” 2014-03-07T23:59:00Z

His songs were concise and thoughtfully distilled, modest in bearing but often a gutpunch in content and sly in delivery. Tom Petty, an Unfussy Rock Star Who Kept His Tenacity Under Cover 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z

His two books enjoyed only modest sales, and he is undecided what the next project might be. Gilbert King on His Pulitzer-Winning ‘Devil in the Grove’ 2013-04-24T21:49:56Z

So, a modest proposal: Let’s retire the term. Women don’t have “maiden” names: A modest proposal to retire the descriptor 2015-07-05T04:00:00Z

Gotham closed its 14th season this weekend with a modest, though rewarding offering: “The Tempest Songbook,” which opened on Friday at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Review: ‘The Tempest Songbook’ Closes Gotham Chamber Opera’s Season 2015-03-29T04:00:00Z

Their dreams are modest — they want to open a laundry — and are dashed before they even arrive. Review: ABC’s ‘Blood & Oil,’ Washing Away the Past 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z

Like many American institutions, the Library claims modest beginnings. Review | The Library of Congress: ‘The book Palace of the American People’ 2018-02-27T05:00:00Z

“The Nap” is less frenetically funny than “One Man,” and more modest in scale. Review: Great Pretenders Pocket Laughs in ‘The Nap’ 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z

Even so, it took Mr. Rozier, a single-minded director known for feuding with his producers, years to achieve even modest acclaim across the Atlantic. Jacques Rozier, Last of the French New Wave Directors, Dies at 96 2023-06-13T04:00:00Z

They are both modest observers of their own sorrow, rather than declaimers of it; their loss is secondary to the person they mourn, who remains the main object. Too much grief 2011-08-19T21:55:11Z

So she sees 3,000 in Bradford as a relatively modest challenge. Bollywood Carmen: Bizet goes bhangra 2013-06-05T19:00:01Z

"The Family Arcana" goals were modest: $2,800 to create and print decks of cards that would tell multiple variations of a strange story. A story in a deck of cards, 'The Family Arcana,' takes off at Kickstarter 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z

Unlike other Madison Avenue flagships, it is modest, quietly certain of itself. Is Bally More Interesting Than Gucci? Depends Who’s Tweeting 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z

Every month on the second Friday, the line forms outside a modest support building next to the Delta Flight Museum, near Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport in Atlanta. Stocking Up at an Airline’s Garage Sale 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z

Adele and I wrote that song in a small studio that is very modest, a homey place in Hollywood, called Harmony. Exclusive Premiere: Hear Dan Wilson and Kronos Quartet re-interpret Adele’s “Someone Like You”—”Everybody knew but me” it was a hit 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z

It is a testament to Aldridge's writing that she manages to create a convincing and expansive universe in such a modest space. A Trick I Learned from Dead Men by Kitty Aldridge – review 2012-08-03T21:55:03Z

The story tracks 20 years of eating disorders and anxiety, punctuated with fashion and modest adventure. Model Charli Howard: ‘They told me I was fat’ 2018-01-28T05:00:00Z

Given the film’s modest $75 million price tag, what could have been a financial disaster will make back its money in a matter of days. “Inferno” isn’t a box office disaster: Dan Brown’s overseas hit may be the future of movies, whether we like it or not 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z

Strangely, the film’s modest dramatic virtues work actively against the pleasure principle and diminish the film’s strongest elements. Bobby Fischer, “Pawn Sacrifice,” and Movies About Geniuses 2015-09-16T04:00:00Z

But if they were antsy about it, it didn’t show in their relaxed rapport and modest demeanors. They Put the Heart in ‘Heartstopper’ 2023-07-29T04:00:00Z

Most are precisely what Maltzan is riffing on at One Santa Fe: depressingly expedient stick-built apartment buildings, five or six stories of modest rental units above a concrete parking podium. Maltzan's One Santa Fe apartment complex plays with notion of density 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z

Over six eventful years, this modest musician successfully conducted the Count Basie and Duke Ellington big bands when Bennett guested with them, as well as the London and Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestras. John Bunch obituary 2010-05-03T19:59:00Z

Skin tones are warmed, in Greuze’s depiction of a young, pretty woman in “Wool Winder,” and also in three modest Goya portraits — otherwise mostly black, white and gray — that include a sweet, weak-chinned officer. 2010-01-08T06:23:00Z

“It’s modest, but it’s actually kind of hard to achieve,” he says. The Slackers are the ska stalwarts who keep on going 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z

And these are not modest buildings: The firm’s clients include Google, the Smithsonian and the chief developer at the World Trade Center site, Larry Silverstein. Building Type: Netflix bets on a new design series — and architect Bjarke Ingels 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z

But he quickly subverts the idea of the "poor short story" and its modest ambitions. Is the short story really the novel's poor relation? 2011-03-24T11:05:40Z

In its modest, mocking way, the movie showcases living dinosaurs in eager anticipation of their extinction. Movies 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z

Mr. Waititi likes to play with types of comedy, but he’s partial to modest exaggeration, whether he’s putting the joke across with slapstick, songs, caricature, lovingly deployed insults or a flurry of tableaulike images. Review: In ‘Hunt for the Wilderpeople,’ Lighting Out for the Bush 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z

This recording highlights the ingenuity of a modest but unmistakable innovator. The Best Archival Jazz Releases of 2018 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z

But after seeing the disappointing and overdesigned Twelfth Night and The Tempest by the RSC at the Roundhouse this month, I now have a modest proposal. No sets, please, for Shakespeare – or anything else 2012-07-04T13:07:54Z

These are works that are as modest as a cigar box decorated with a single ice cream cone and as grand as a painting of two life-size women in striped bathing suits. Art Review: Wayne Thiebaud Retrospective at Acquavella Galleries 2012-11-08T23:37:53Z

But most markets experienced a significant decrease in hotel prices in 2009, and analysts expect that any increases will be modest this year. | Practical Traveler: Strength of Dollar Lifts Interest in Travel to Europe 2010-04-13T20:34:00Z

If anything, and for once, Wright was too modest in describing his ambitions. The New York That Could Have Been 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z

Despite his role in changing American perceptions of race and opening the door to a new generation of Black actors, Mr. Poitier remained modest about his career. Sidney Poitier, Who Paved the Way for Black Actors in Film, Dies at 94 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z

Even in a modest collection, Mr. Lam brings something strongly feminine to life. Fashion Review: Carolina Herrera, Derek Lam, Diane von Furstenberg 2013-09-09T22:55:56Z

Many distilleries are located in modest buildings, the kind of timber homes often associated with Germany. Following a trail of schnapps through Germany’s storied Black Forest 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z

He was a modest, calm, reassuring man – a good listener and a good talker – someone you longed to be with. Geoffrey Burgon obituary 2010-09-22T18:10:00Z

Doing so isn’t so much about the brands that are featured in the magazine or the photographs of expensive frocks in modest settings. Samira Nasr, a fashion first at Harper’s Bazaar: ‘I just want to bring more people with me to the party’ 2021-02-19T05:00:00Z

Here it was Virginie Verrez, who brought the bundled brilliance of her voice to this modest part and otherwise put on a brave face as she was upstaged by soloists from the orchestra. Review: ‘Spanish Nights’ of Falla and Massenet 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z

But the theater’s modest scale certainly speaks to the diminished standing of the adult theater in contemporary society. The last (porn) picture shows: Once dotted with dozens of adults cinemas, L.A. now only has two 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z

Magic: The Gathering débuted in August of 1993, and had a modest initial print run of 2.6 million cards with fantasy illustrations to match. The Twenty-Five-Year Journey of Magic: The Gathering 2018-08-28T04:00:00Z

"The people I have spoken to are very modest about it, they just say 'I did my bit', but they were a very important part of the war effort, and they deserve recognition." Exhibition sheds light on wartime shadow factories 2013-07-15T12:59:51Z

Based solely on their earning power, a more “authentic” lifestyle would be a more modest one, but instead this looked as if they had traded a pair of golden handcuffs for a diamond bedroom set. Perspective | Meghan and Harry made a fairy-tale escape. They still seem trapped. 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z

Musically, the result is theatrical but modest and soft-edged, not recognizably sublime in any sense. Review: Elliott Carter Premiere and Levine Withdrawal With Met Chamber Ensemble 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z

What a stroke of genius – to begin the artistic ascent with a modest, domestic sparrow. Poem of the week: The Sorrow of Love by WB Yeats 2010-08-09T09:17:00Z

In their place are more modest projects, including a bus drivers' toilet in Dagenham. Schools, museums and public loo: 2010 RIBA architecture awards unveiled 2010-05-20T10:21:00Z

Arrangements were also a balancing act, employing modest instruments that would not overdramatize the songs. Music: Less Fleet, but More Mature, Foxes 2011-04-29T18:36:51Z

After starting out in the mid-1970s with a book that scored only modest sales, Patterson left a top job in advertising and now has 83 books published. Author James Patterson eyes movies, kids reading 2011-06-29T20:59:58Z

And his output at the age of 51 is comparatively modest: four novels, a memoir and a book of essays. Does Freedom reign? 2010-09-17T23:05:00Z

This is what Mr. Callahan does: put a big and mysterious idea in a modest place. Music: He Can Sing It, if Not Speak It 2011-04-10T02:00:17Z

Since then, I’ve been trying to learn Tagalog with very modest success. Motherlode Blog: When Not to Speak Your Second Language to Your Children 2014-04-14T16:00:10Z

He hustles him into the studio and a star of modest dimensions is born. Theater Review: ‘Soul Doctor,’ a Musical About Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach 2013-08-16T02:00:40Z

After all, Le Corbusier was known for his social commitment, planning utopian cities he believed would improve the lives of modest city dwellers. Chanel recalls Le Corbusier in glittering, snow-white and red collection 2014-07-08T04:00:00Z

Greenwood’s first soundtrack effort is modest in its ambitions but confident in its execution. Jonny Greenwood: First Radiohead, Now Orchestras and Film 2022-01-12T05:00:00Z

Try the breakfast burritos and the cream of red bean soup at this modest cafe in the Parker Ranch Store in Waimea. Aloha, partner: Riding the Hawaiian range 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z

The slick production sports an expanded, serviceable score by Howard Ashman and Jack Feldman, leaping and tumbling street dances and a modest array of atmospheric back projections. Cue the 2012 Tony Awards, and a stripped-down Broadway season 2012-06-07T21:40:41Z

As for addressing them on an individual level, this is my modest proposal: pretend the drag performer in question is the governor of a conservative southern state. Perspective | The right-wing drag panic is not about men wearing women’s clothing 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z

With all respect to Neeson, the star of this tough, modest movie brings a different kind of credibility. ‘Catch the Fair One’ Review: The Fight of Her Life 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z

With his judicious, thoughtful and balanced answers to difficult and often inflammatory questions, Hayes, a professor emeritus at Northwestern, has provided an intellectually searching and wide-ranging study of the Holocaust in a modest, didactic form. Two New Books Look at the Holocaust in Civic and Military Terms 2017-01-03T05:00:00Z

The decline is a lot more modest than the scale up. New "OK Boomer" book tries to heal generational rift between Millennials and Boomers 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z

Not only does Novikova retain a more modest purity of line throughout the turning arabesques, but her jumps are more like drifting thistledown, and the luminous shape of her arms more beautifully sustained. The Mikhailovsky Ballet and a tale of two Giselles 2013-03-25T15:15:16Z

Today, Kabul Dreams, as the band is named, is paving the way for a very modest but growing local rock scene. Afghan indie band rocks Kabul in post-Taliban era 2010-07-06T06:56:00Z

This modest, talented man didn't become a star and has been turned into one by rediscovery. Searching for Sugar Man – review 2012-07-28T23:05:46Z

How modest they seemed in that moment, Bond and his comrades, who were teenagers or barely in their 20s when they risked everything. Julian Bond had the long view of this journey toward justice 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z

Portions are modest, though many diners will find them adequate. Emerald City Fish & Chips serves up satisfying Southern-fried seafood and hospitality 2010-03-25T21:43:00Z

Here, most theater continues to happen online with a mix of taped older works and new projects that tend to be relatively modest in size but are getting conceptually more daring. Appointment Theater, Coming to a Screen Near You 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z

Mr. Hernandez displayed total concentration as he finished the sauce, offering his hosts modest servings of pasta, with a side salad. Webcast by a Hip-Hopper Who Cooks 2011-03-26T15:00:17Z

Attendance appeared modest on the grand opening day of the Frank Gehry-designed Guggenheim, which, with its sweeping metallic curves reflecting the murky waters of the Nervion River, is one of Spain’s most recognizable structures. With masks and thermometers Bilbao's Guggenheim welcomes back visitors 2020-06-01T04:00:00Z

Universal is anticipating a more modest opening of about $18 million. 'Ouija' likely to outspook Keanu Reeves' 'John Wick' 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z

The Delta is extremely flat, but the house and barn sit on a modest rise that affords a visitor a view of the surrounding farmland that just about anyone would find serene. The Freedom Trail in Mississippi Is a Chronicle of Outrage and Courage 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z

Now a major performance event, the Fort began in a Hilton Hotel suite in 2002 with ambitions that were more modest, yet still promotional. In Austin, Music Lovers Get Parallel Universes 2011-03-15T21:21:32Z

Even better, they draw viewers into the action, their modest dimensions pulling the rug out from under the idea that bigger is better and loudest is best. What to see in L.A. galleries: tiny paintings of breathtaking beauty, photographs of the super-smart 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z

They're lovely people, but not the students I'd have expected to go so far so quickly, because they were so understated and modest at school. Schoolteachers of rock 2010-04-25T20:30:00Z

But make no mistake, while its footprint here may be small, there is nothing modest about this spectacle. | 'Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame': ?Detective Dee? With Andy Lau - Review 2011-09-01T21:38:44Z

On the other hand, "42" outdid the usual expectations for baseball movies, which usually do modest business at best. '42' scores at home, Cruise dominates overseas 2013-04-14T19:56:12Z

He’s more attuned to gestures, Daumier-like faces, the breeze in the trees, the choreography of bodies and the many textured, outwardly modest details that make up a life. ‘Scarlet’ Review: A Father and Daughter Endure 2023-06-08T04:00:00Z

In Afghanistan, Trump sent a few thousand more troops in 2017, his own modest version of a mini-surge and they’re still there, even as peace negotiations with the Taliban have been abandoned. Killing me softly with militarism 2019-10-26T04:00:00Z

Where these throwback styles thrive is on the Internet, where dedicated if modest fan bases can champion all sorts of outsiders, even traditionalists. Music Review: Jay Electronica and Big K.R.I.T. Rap for Purists 2010-07-02T22:14:00Z

Thankfully, most of Plan Ett’s two floors are given over to items of modest size. Shopping Scandinavian design in Stockholm like a local — coffee breaks included 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z

“The Big Sick” plays both its comedic and more dramatic incidents nice and easy, with modest and generous laughs folded into an audience-friendly package. No Escaping Politics at the Progressive Sundance Film Festival 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z

Those of us who can recall every scene of “Local Hero” might hope that “Bill Forsyth Lifetime Achievement Film,” modest as it is, gets him out of that groove. Film: Bill Forsyth to Discuss ?Housekeeping? at Film Forum 2010-04-14T21:46:00Z

Drawing from folk rock and rustic country music, the album has conversationally catchy melodies; lyrics about hard times and modest yearnings; and cameos by Patty Griffin and Alison Krauss. Oct. Fall Pop Music Preview: An Abundance of Rhythms and Styles 2013-09-09T16:03:09Z

That hasn’t stopped his accusers from continuing to speak out, and to demand even modest restitution. Janice Dickinson on Bill Cosby: I want him to acknowledge he raped me 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z

Snow White, rather than try to beat her in the contest of appearances, must create a new game, based on a different meaning of “fairness” and on her own modest, real-girl appeal. Movie Review: ‘Snow White and the Huntsman’ With Kristen Stewart 2012-05-31T17:47:53Z

However, given each episode's modest 30 minutes or less runtime, asking to take in "Normal People" sip by sip isn't unreasonable. "Normal People" takes a common teenage love story and matures to a rated-M, sex-driven heartbreak 2020-04-29T04:00:00Z

Why did a celebrity like Armstrong choose to live the last three decades of his life in a modest house in the working-class Corona neighborhood? 36 Hours in Queens, N.Y. 2012-12-20T17:55:09Z

I'm a pretty modest person in some ways. Mimi Lipson on her debut collection, 'The Cloud of Unknowing' 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z

"Wounded Rhymes" was a modest popular hit, hitting No. 36 on Billboard's album chart upon its February release. Lykke Li's second album blends youthful vulnerability and mature sound 2011-05-19T19:59:17Z

Various bits of nautical décor set off an otherwise modest room. Buttery Lobster, Without All the Work (or the Bib) 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z

Aloe Blacc played most of the album at Le Poisson Rouge on Thursday night, in a generally modest show with only the occasional sly nod to the present. Music Review: The Old-School Style, Unafraid to Be Imperfect 2010-11-19T22:45:00Z

Although it’s a modest size, it is a tough climb to the summit, but climbing skills are not necessary. Top 10 active volcanoes to see up close 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z

The wins capped an unlikely run for "Gentleman's," which after out-of-town tryouts in Hartford and at San Diego's Old Globe opened to modest box office in September — but gained momentum as the Tonys came closer. 'Gentleman's Guide' kills at Tony Awards, claims four 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z

Brave, suffering a modest drop of 9% from the previous weekend, convincingly held on to the top spot, and, including the Monday holiday, has achieved a healthy £14.4m. The Imposter proves its worth, while Keith Lemon commands respect 2012-08-29T11:45:09Z

“I wanted to create a brand that you couldn’t tell was modest clothing for Mormons,” France says. Queer Eye's Tan France: ‘The word gay was never mentioned in my parents’ home’ 2019-03-09T05:00:00Z

Now the trio plays this fairly modest anniversary show, not too far from its native Long Island. Pop & Rock Listings for July 11-17 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z

Another company, Bralessly, targets women “who want to be comfortably braless and still be modest.” The pandemic bra revolution: How to find a comfortable one, or go without 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z

Black Sabbath’s last album, 13, was released in June 2013 to modest reviews. Black Sabbath's Last Album to Drop in 2016 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z

Whether he was an accountant or a convict, he had evidently also worked for Kiev Thought, if only in a modest capacity. Stepping Across the Ice: Teffi (1872-1952) 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z

As all-encompassing as it is, the waiver is a modest precursor of the legislation now making its way through Congress. Border fence’s devastating toll 2012-09-18T22:00:00Z

Simon & Schuster is publishing 23,500 copies of the book, a modest number for an author whose previous three books collectively sold more than 350,000 print copies, according to Nielsen. A Fraud? Jonah Lehrer Says His Remorse Is Real 2016-07-11T04:00:00Z

He never had a hit record, but he commanded a loyal audience that ensured steady if modest sales for his albums and a durable concert career. John Prine, Who Chronicled the Human Condition in Song, Dies at 73 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z

She had taken to bed in her modest Alexandria, Va., apartment the night before, when it became clear which way the presidential election was going. This group trains women to run for office. Here’s how one outraged, post-Trump class fared. 2018-02-12T05:00:00Z

Over the years, Mr. Winchester has written almost two dozen books, whose modest topics have included the making of the Oxford English Dictionary, the explosion of Krakatoa and the creation of the first geological map. Review: ‘Pacific’ Is Simon Winchester’s Latest Big-Picture Book 2015-11-01T04:00:00Z

Ives’s Third Symphony is a generous work of modest proportions, inclusive in its embrace of hymns, folk music and dances, yet highly idiosyncratic in how they are put together. Music Review: Wayne Shorter and Orpheus Chamber Orchestra at Carnegie Hall 2013-02-04T23:17:19Z

The Long Boom was just that: a modest bonanza whose effects touched every back alley in Grub Street. The third age of Grub Street – and a new era for books 2013-03-04T15:43:30Z

Entry fees for the Book Show will also be more modest, starting at $35 for booksellers and librarians. Oprah Winfrey, Keanu Reeves to Participate in New Book Show 2021-05-10T04:00:00Z

If the spectacular horror of the self-immolations first attracted her interest, she finds, at least among her sources, demands that sound surprisingly modest. ‘Eat the Buddha’ Reports From the ‘World Capital of Self-Immolations’ 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z

Once again he did not know, which was modest of him. Michael Holroyd: writers in front of the camera 2011-08-19T21:55:13Z

The industry, which reported modest increases during the recent recession, is still growing, though the level has tapered off, Buckley said. Marvel head: Creativity will drive comics in 2012 2012-01-16T20:46:03Z

Mr. Scott wrote in The Times in August that the film, “at first glance a modest, ragged slice of contemporary life, turns out to be a remarkably subtle, even elegant movie.” DVDs: Sinister Doings in Losey?s ?These Are the Damned? 2010-04-04T03:00:00Z

At the time, the proposal was fairly modest: a building of perhaps 20,000 square feet would provide art and science programs for area children. Newtown expands scope of planned children's museum 2013-01-29T12:53:11Z

Most Broadway shows reported relatively modest sales at the box office last week, not a surprise in mid-to-late January when there are fewer tourists around to buy tickets. Strong Sales for 'Hedwig' on Broadway 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z

Invested in believing that she’s happy, and that her marriage is, too, Alice looks after Holly, sunbathes in the yard of their modest house and indulges in best-selling paperbacks. ‘Summer, 1976’ Review: The Path to Freedom Starts With a Friendship 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z

“It’s just a small piece, a very modest piece of hope.” In Brussels, Art Museum Brings Hope to Muslim Neighborhood of Molenbeek 2016-05-31T04:00:00Z

He was approaching the finish line on a post-production schedule that included developing a computer-generated character on a modest budget, and months of commuting to a London studio. Right Man to Handle an Irreverent Alien 2011-03-11T05:36:15Z

Just after noon on Tuesday, the line is modest compared with the block-long wait on most weekends. The Crumbs cupcake empire has been iced, but the cupcake rolls on.

“Old Houses at Night” evokes tumbling visions of modest hillside homes. ‘Drama and Design’ brings together works by regional artists Yvonne Twining Humber and Blanche Morgan Losey 2018-08-29T04:00:00Z

Though a decades-long civil war in Sri Lanka escalated tensions between Sinhalese and Tamil ethnic groups, here the two groups live peaceably in clapboard houses and brick town houses with modest, fenced-in front lawns. On Staten Island, Savoring Flavors of Sri Lanka 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z

This modest, quiet story — based on a magazine article published more than 20 years ago — could easily have turned into something preachy, sentimental and overstated. ‘A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood’ Review: You Are My Friend 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z

Lichtenstein comes across as funny and generous and modest; he does not fit into the "tortured artist" bracket, although his widow said he was like anyone in getting frustrated. Roy Lichtenstein outgrew term pop art, says widow prior to Tate show 2013-02-18T18:21:40Z

It was modest, uncluttered music, beautiful in its economy like a mechanical watch. The xx finds a quiet place in big-sound pop world 2017-04-19T04:00:00Z

When I press him he offers a modest definition. Oscars 2011: Will the Brits win big in the technical categories? 2011-02-27T00:05:55Z

“After Midnight” will cost approximately $6 million, on a modest side for a commercial Broadway musical. ArtsBeat: Cotton Club Musical Headed to Broadway With a New Name 2013-06-24T19:26:33Z

After 64 years in show business, Dooley is modest and philosophical about the past, and the future. After playing on-screen dad to Molly, Helen and Julia, Paul Dooley gets to play himself 2016-06-04T04:00:00Z

On the day we meet at his modest hillside home in Los Angeles, Mr. Van Sant wears a black Diamond Supply Co. skate T-shirt tucked into loose indigo Levis and pads around shoeless. Gus Van Sant’s Next Picture Will Be a Watercolor 2019-09-08T04:00:00Z

But though Ant-Man, which cost $130 million, may be a more modest bet for Marvel, it’s no less of a risk, already having survived lots of behind-the-scenes drama. Paul Rudd 'Never Imagined' Starring in a Marvel Film 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z

This is street food in Lebanon, but the Lebanese Bakery is not selling at a ludicrous price: most items on its menu sell for £6, which seems reasonable for a modest lunch or hearty breakfast. Manousheh: the Lebanese breakfast pizza that stole my heart 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z

Virginia saw similar growth in volunteering and giving, while Maryland’s rate of philanthropy increased at a more modest rate. An influx of wealth is transforming philanthropy in the District, but some are missing out 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z

“I like when the crowd gets awkward,” Mr. Oakerson says with a modest note of pride. Big Jay Oakerson, a Master of the Dirty Joke 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z

Many cardiologists caution that the benefits of fish oil, while real, are quite modest. What You Need To Know About Fish Oil 2010-03-09T21:30:00Z

In 2001, a review of Gurnah’s “By the Sea” in The Washington Post said the novelist had “created a remarkable voice, at once modest, dignified and sage.” Nobel Prize in literature awarded to Abdulrazak Gurnah 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z

But try one once, and it might lead you to consider a modest — and more easily managed — expansion. Perspective | The wheel hoe comes full circle 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z

It's a more modest prospect than some of the new programmes heading for 4 Extra, but still a welcome treat. Radio review: The Small House at Allington 2011-03-24T08:00:04Z

The book, which had a modest initial print run of 10,000 copies, went on to sell more than three million, according to its publisher, HarperCollins. How Hollywood and the Media Fueled the Political Rise of J.D. Vance 2022-05-15T04:00:00Z

That show, the sixth and final season of which ran on HBO earlier this year, was watched by relatively modest numbers, but has had an outsized influence on the culture. Adam Driver: ‘Compared with the military, acting isn't that difficult’ 2017-12-09T05:00:00Z

This is farming country, so flat that a modest little mound in the Nottinghamshire village of Gringley-on-the-Hill is a local landmark. On the Pilgrims? Path Through England and the Netherlands 2011-11-17T20:41:15Z

Even modest regional museums may have a bronze cast of one of the iconic statues, and new casts are still being made, and sold, by the Musée Rodin in Paris. Exhibit review: In Virginia, a Rodin show changes how we see the sculptor 2015-11-20T05:00:00Z

In interviews, however, she tended to be modest about her own accomplishments. Mary Rodgers, composer and daughter of Richard Rodgers, dies at 83 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z

Michael Penn’s first song in 15 years, “A Revival,” swells from modest parlor-piano hymn to robust chorus as it reflects, not so obliquely, on privilege, hubris, narcissism and the long-awaited restoration of a “commonweal.” Burna Boy’s Cry for Nigeria, and 9 More New Songs 2020-11-06T05:00:00Z

But even after 40 years, most members of this thriving industry are still just a few degrees of separation away from the modest building where it all started. The Place: dreams in a drill hall 2010-05-11T21:30:00Z

In fact, the McWilliams family was quite well off—Child’s father owned and managed a great deal of land; her mother was the heiress to a modest paper fortune. The Passionate, Progressive Politics of Julia Child 2019-03-26T04:00:00Z

He was also smart enough to keep his acting ambitions modest — he basically plays himself, a tough-talking Detroit kid who finds his voice, and his confidence, in the city’s underground rap battles. Stream These 13 Titles Before They Leave Netflix in October 2022-09-27T04:00:00Z

More modest, but equally beautiful wedding locations, he said, include Golden Gate Park in San Francisco or Griffith Park in Los Angeles. Update: In California, Opening the Door to Gay Marriage and Wedding Destinations 2013-06-28T17:11:09Z

Michel also painted, but only on board in modest sizes; she did not use canvas or begin to have solo shows until after Avery’s death . A Singular American Painter and His Perennially Disregarded Wife 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z

The film is mind-blowing in its ambition and strangeness, but also decidedly modest, as if it were one of those stones packed with information that we might someday learn to unlock. The Future of Movies Collides With the Past at the New York Film Festival 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z

From the outside, this modest grey box has a whiff of Portakabin, but inside you step back in time. Cape Cod's hidden modernist houses 2015-07-05T04:00:00Z

Only the wall text explains that these are professional singers and the series a modest protest against conservative restrictions that forbid women from singing in public, effectively silencing them. Art Review: Mideast Photography at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 2013-12-26T22:22:28Z

The effect of the show, which I saw as a work in progress during a recent rehearsal, is modest, and at the same time not so modest. Dancing to Robert Walser 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z

Silhouettes were modest, almost conservative, but colors ranging from barely there neutrals to electric blue and hot pink added youthfulness and sex appeal. NY Fashion Week looks to nighttime glamour for day 2011-02-11T21:14:25Z

Yet while critics trashed "New Year's Eve" and "The Sitter," a lineup of well-reviewed, seemingly must-see family films that include "The Muppets," "Arthur Christmas" and "Hugo" so far have done modest business at best. Movie audiences shrink below post-Sept. 11 level 2011-12-11T19:47:54Z

Ms. Letourneur’s device of bringing the three friends together at the beginning of the film to recall their misadventures, all while eating cupcakes and wondering whom to text, demonstrates Ms. Letourneur’s modest yet ferocious talent. Movie Review: Sophie Letourneur Directs and Stars in ‘Les Coquilletes’ 2013-07-16T23:01:04Z

The opening for "The Switch," which co-stars Jason Bateman, was in line with modest expectations. Sylvester Stallone stomps on box office rookies 2010-08-23T01:37:00Z

Its earlier years are still, fondly and not, branded as its granola period, a characterization that speaks to the kinds of modest, regionally minded movies that the festival often presented. At Last Back at Sundance, Filled With Rocky Relationships and Glorious Writers 2023-01-27T05:00:00Z

An hour later, customers were standing and waiting for one of the 33 seats in the modest corner establishment. Young wine pros pour their efforts into D.C.’s restaurant renaissance 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z

To wit, People likely will pay a separate but modest fee for any material it uses for iPad-based galleries featuring photos that don't appear in print. People magazine iPad app delayed by paparazzi 2010-08-18T07:53:00Z

The ability to create such events was possible only with "modest sustained investment in regional theatres". Danny Boyle accuses culture minister Maria Miller of 'outrageous' snub 2012-11-15T18:52:43Z

It would be equally fascinating with fine, though far more modest, bottles. A 150-Year-Old Wine and Its Descendants Reveal Their Secrets 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z

“Over dinner he was humble and modest, and we shared an interest in wine and food,” Mr. Nateman said. Two Chance Meetings, and a Romance Takes Flight 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z

The so far quiet and modest vibe of the show may shift as well. Television Review: ‘Family Tree’ on HBO, Directed by Christopher Guest 2013-05-10T21:37:04Z

This more modest style of dress has also coincided neatly with the #MeToo movement. Pioneer Women Are Roaming the City 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z

“I don’t mean to sound modest, but when I listen to it now, I feel like there’s too much of me,” he told me, in mid November, once all of the episodes had been recorded. In ‘Mandela: The Lost Tapes,’ a Veteran Journalist Finds Himself 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z

To a private dinner with the Macrons the night before, she wore a dark wool coat over a modest knee-length dress. Analysis | Jill Biden’s twinkling state-dinner dress revived a first lady tradition 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z

He remains as modest, kind and unassuming now as he was at age 24. Q. and A. With Ellie Kemper: Talking Kimmy Schmidt, Jon Hamm and Tarantulas 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z

But Alexander Heffner is, in a modest way, trying to do battle with our fractious world, as seen on TV. Civility? Depth? One host’s radical approach to TV talk in a troubled time 2016-11-27T05:00:00Z

Both studios said they were happy with the openings, which exceeded modest expectations, even if the movies are not destined for box office greatness. Clooney outdraws "Machete" at holiday box office 2010-09-06T16:45:00Z

At more upmarket auctions built around a theme, with an elegant display intended to stimulate buyers, prices remain modest for a whole range of decorative urban landscapes. The Beauty of the Modest Auction 2011-01-21T14:30:05Z

That’s why there remains an air of anticipation around this show — his first in the Los Angeles area since 2012 — despite its modest scale. Damien Hirst’s Post-Venice, Post-Truth World 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z

However representative of the average star-struck Italian, he is too modest a figure on which to hang the aspirations of a nation. 2010-02-12T00:06:00Z

But this modest degree of beaker boiling is not nearly energetic enough to turn the book into an action-adventure story on a par with Mr. Pearl’s earlier works. Books of The Times: ?The Technologists,? by Matthew Pearl, Is Set in 1868 2012-02-23T00:25:22Z

But in terms of what she brought to the table as a ballet trustee, perhaps her emphatically modest assessment, while it seemed scripted by a publicist, nonetheless held a kernel of truth. Romancing The Stars 2011-05-13T20:07:13Z

The anger and grief you feel leaving the theater constitute a kind of catharsis, a modest symbolic compensation for the failure of justice in the real world. Review: In ‘Deepwater Horizon,’ Oil, Fire and Greed 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z

Well, not so modest: The cost is $15,000 for two large gelatin silver prints. The Other Mapplethorpe 2016-04-16T04:00:00Z

Warm spices greet you at the double doors, which lead to a modest bar and provide your first glimpse of the dining room. Review | After more than 30 years, Bombay Club is as comfortable as ever 2019-06-27T04:00:00Z

“I believe I bring some intellectual firepower,” he said, moments before describing himself as “a modest man.” At 92, Still Grabbing the Brass Ring 2010-08-13T21:53:00Z

There was no one like me there except my then-boyfriend, who was standing next to me with his modest Afro as we waited for my college roommate’s wedding party. Black Travel Groups Find Kindred Spirits on Social Networks 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z

That slightly exceeded the studio's expectations, yet like most Eastwood dramas, it was a modest start. 'Paranormal' follow-up scares $41.5M out of fans 2010-10-24T19:46:00Z

Another study asked college students about their childhood experiences of parental nudity, and found “modest support that these childhood experiences are positively related to indices of adjustment”. Forget 'lewd behaviour' – is being naked around your own kids good for them? 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z

She talks fast, laughs loudly, and is uncharacteristically goofy for Bollywood royalty, throwing her hands about so much in a modest London hotel suite that her jewellery flies across the room. Bollywood rebel Kajol: ‘I never gave a damn what anyone said about me. I still don’t’ 2015-12-14T05:00:00Z

A few modest products here are fine, most are stretching an iota of scientific fact into overpriced miracle claims, while others are as medically verifiable as a leprechaun’s kiss. You had me at 'vagina rejuvenation': my weird day out at an anti-ageing exhibition 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z

And Mr. Stone managed to keep the weekly running costs unusually modest for Broadway, in the low- to mid-$200,000 range, while sticking with a marketing plan that emphasized the musical’s emotional punch. Broadway Musical ?Next to Normal? Turns a Profit 2010-03-29T04:47:00Z

What impresses most in the Ruhr is the monumental scale: Coal mines and steel works evoke nature’s creations rather than the more modest structures we encounter in cities today. Germany’s Ruhr valley beckons with converted coal mines and a unique industrial heritage 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z

As such they’re modest and ambitious, bold and shy, intimate and grand. Music Review: A winning set by John Fullbright 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z

Putin visits wounded Army soldiers, female workers on International Women’s Day, and even visited a former teacher, Vera Dmitrievna, in her modest home. The man who filmed Putin’s rise: “Compromises I made, we all made…led us to this deplorable... 2018-09-22T04:00:00Z

It is a historically fascinating and excellently produced show of works that mostly masked revolutionary intentions behind deceptively modest, small-scale pieces of assemblage, print making, performance and wordplay. Art Review: ?Fluxus and the Essential Questions of Life? - Review 2011-09-23T23:19:41Z

The large wall-hangings that resulted are the most impressive works in “June Wayne: Paintings, Prints and Tapestries,” a broad but modest survey at the Pasadena Museum of California Art. A survey of June Wayne at Pasadena Museum of California Art 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z

He is 46 now, with wispy red hair and soft eyes, and so modest that he squirms visibly when I ask him to pinpoint his place in Irish cinema. Lenny Abrahamson: 'Good guys can be complex too' 2013-01-03T17:00:01Z

It’s also disappointing when the film’s modest pleasures are scuttled by more sizable frustrations, and when a little movie with big talent behind it turns out to be suitable only for in-flight viewing. Jack Reacher: Tom Cruise Picks the Wrong Week for a Thriller About a Mass Killing 2012-12-18T14:00:44Z

He managed to achieve design work of the highest international level while emanating a modest but honest sense of his own worth, combined with a totally disarming humour. David Myerscough-Jones obituary 2010-05-04T18:01:00Z

They live in modest but clean apartments, often have outside boyfriends, come to work by taxi, and punch in on a digital clock like industrial workers all over the world. Male grooming: The movie 2012-05-18T23:15:00Z

But I suppose that even these modest activities indicate that I still have a bit of hope. Fake News, 1969: My Infamous Role in the Harvard Antiwar Protests 2019-04-07T04:00:00Z

In “Duck Butter,” Ms. Shawkat — who wrote the screenplay with Mr. Arteta — creates a character whose consciousness lurches into existence one modest and momentous encounter at a time. Review: ‘Duck Butter’ and the 24-Hour ‘for Real’ Relationship 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z

Mr. Sharp, now a frail 84 and living in a modest working-class neighborhood of Boston, is the quiet, self-effacing subject of this admiring film from the British director Ruaridh Arrow. Movie Review: Gene Sharp in Documentary ?How to Start a Revolution? 2012-02-24T00:04:58Z

"Food halls represent an opportunity for a restaurateur to set up for business at a relatively modest cost," said Rick Moses, the developer of Citizen Public Market, which opened in Culver City in November. Can food halls help diversify the post-pandemic restaurant industry? Yes, if done right 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z

Call it a modest epiphany, but Haire is delighted to stop getting paid. Seattle music’s champion of weird, Doug Haire, ends KEXP’s ‘Sonarchy’ 2018-02-19T05:00:00Z

Besides, Mr. Stone was being far too modest about what constituted a valid business movie. Film: When Did Gekko Get So Toothless? 2010-09-24T14:38:00Z

This chock-full boutique offers stylish jewelry, unusual accessories and gift items, all at modest prices. Old-Time California Lives in Pismo Beach 2010-04-08T21:49:00Z

Visits back and forth will be important, and your notes, cards and modest gifts will help to sustain the relationship between visits. Perspective | Ask Amy: If Hugh Grant says it, this word must be okay 2017-07-03T04:00:00Z

But a modern streetcar, using only a modest track buried a few inches into the asphalt, shares the road and flows with existing traffic. Critic’s Notebook: Imagining a Streetcar Line Along the Waterfront 2014-04-20T22:32:54Z

The invariably modest scale feels claustrophobic, despite the expansive subjects. Art Review: Testing the Waters of Abstraction 2011-08-04T22:02:30Z

The ratings for the premiere of “Devious Maids,” at 10 on Sunday night, were modest. An Emerging Hispanic Voice Defends Her ‘Maids’ 2013-06-24T22:13:04Z

One of three wide releases set to hit domestic multiplexes Friday, "Secretariat" totes relatively modest production costs and the grossly immodest marketing costs typical of any major studio release. "Life" a favorite to top weekend box office 2010-10-08T02:13:00Z

And we see them, again and again, in the modest exhibition opening at the New-York Historical Society on Thursday, “Remembering 9/11.” Exhibition Review: 9/11 Exhibition at New-York Historical Society ? Review 2011-09-07T21:28:42Z

You are white, Christian, of modest means, and getting along in years. Why Do People Who Need Help From the Government Hate It So Much? 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z

At the beginning, though, life was a bit more modest. AD Remembers: Deborah Duchess of Devonshire 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z

This was obviously a labor of love for Tengan and Kawakami, and viewers who are fortunate to see it and sink into its everyday rhythms will appreciate its modest charms. "Every Day in Kaimuki" filmmakers on questioning contentment: "Are you happy or is this just easy?" 2022-01-23T05:00:00Z

In the modest Los Angeles suburb of Bell, where one in five people live in poverty, someone broke into the band room and took two tubas. Banda black market suspected as Calif tubas vanish 2012-03-08T20:24:08Z

Julio Quintana’s “The Vessel” is a modest, but not maudlin, parable of hope about mustering the strength to vigorously plunge again into life’s uncertainties after a devastating loss. Review: ‘The Vessel’: Learning to Forge Ahead After Wrenching Loss 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z

Profile in Style | The Great American Designs of Tom Scheerer With his modest nature, Tom Scheerer often finds himself acting the role of bemused bystander in the opulent and self-promoting world of interior design. | The Great American Designs of Tom Scheerer 2013-08-21T13:00:58Z

But he takes modest comfort from the free press and the independent constitutional court, although even that independence is under threat. District Six revisited 2010-04-02T23:05:00Z

He said his nephew is a bit like himself, "not too pushy and he's modest about his stuff," so Jackson must ask him to play new songs each time he enters the studio. Alan Jackson gets personal in 'Thirty Miles West' 2012-06-08T19:51:54Z

Whether you have a modest apartment closet or a custom walk-in, these decluttering tips and tricks can help. Lifestyle - The Washington Post Rss Loading...

This year it surpassed a more modest $3 million goal, they said. Emerging from a long pause, the return of the Kennedy Center Honors is a breath of fresh air 2021-05-22T04:00:00Z

Back home, the film will do modest business along the lines of most of his comedies. "Dark Stranger" a serviceable Woody Allen comedy 2010-05-17T04:43:00Z

But with her beauty-queen background and her modest television résumé, she was criticized for lacking the traditional sportscaster credentials. Phyllis George, Trailblazing Sportscaster, Is Dead at 70 2020-05-16T04:00:00Z

Though the salary would have been welcome in a family of modest means, Roberta, with the support of her parents, turned it down: She had set her sights on opera and would not be deterred. Roberta Peters, Soprano With a Dramatic Entrance, Dies at 86 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z

Employment in Los Angeles County's creative industries rose by 6,000 jobs in 2013 after more modest gains the two previous years, according to the latest annual Otis Report on the Creative Economy. Producers make $102,860? Composers $63,560? Otis report on jobs and pay 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z

The agreement that was actually struck was more modest, but still extraordinary. The Flea Theater, Experimenting Again, Walks a New Tightrope 2022-03-07T05:00:00Z

The turnout for t e show's Dec. 2 premiere was modest. Bravo and E! networks take the plunge into scripted TV programming 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z

Sample language from the student manual: “girls have a responsibility to wear modest clothing that doesn’t invite lustful thoughts.” Science or sex: Which does the right hate more? 2012-06-24T00:00:00Z

I’m not averse to an adrenaline rush, but I like modest doses and no heights or danger, thanks. Indoor skydiving (in a wind tunnel) is for everyone at any age 2014-11-12T05:00:00Z

“Ssss” is a modest, genially impersonal effort: 10 instrumental tracks that don’t flaunt their authorship. New Music: New Albums From VCMG, Brad Mehldau Trio and Henry Cole 2012-03-12T22:32:55Z

He’s gone now, as is the modest frisson generated by his relationship with Hit Girl. Movie Review: ‘Kick-Ass 2’ Stars Chloë Grace Moretz 2013-08-15T22:04:11Z

"Winter's Bone" -- Debra Granik's devastating crime saga set in the Ozarks came out early in the year and did modest business. Winners and losers of today's Oscar noms 2011-01-25T17:20:00Z

Sure, it's too early to tell whether Love can build on her modest success and get a good third decade going. Album Review: Courtney Love's 'Nobody's Daughter' 2010-04-23T15:04:00Z

“Although technically a nude, the composition is tender and modest rather than erotic,” reads the wall label. Lucian Freud, Stripped of Fame and Scandal 2022-11-01T04:00:00Z

The modest but attractive common room and kitchen serve up free art books, magazines, espresso, juice and biscuits. Haute Hostels Put to the Test in Europe 2013-04-26T16:24:14Z

According to Mr. Kavanaugh, the budget was a modest $24 million or so, before taking into account tax credits from Massachusetts. ?The Fighter? Has a Long Count Before Its Release 2010-08-09T22:03:00Z

Today, Mr. Jones remains a modest, vigorous multi-instrumentalist and producer with a charmingly versatile hand: he can leap from producing for Willie Nelson to playing on the ska-punk band Rancid’s album “Let the Dominoes Fall.” Pop, Rock & Cabaret Listings for Feb. 20-26 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z

There are many indifferent sketches and doodles on paper and a smattering of modest, slapped together sculptures. ‘Bob and Roberta Smith: Art Amnesty,’ at MoMA PS1 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z

It didn't take long for "Unsolved Mysteries" to go from a modest success to a huge hit. A brief history of "Unsolved Mysteries" 2021-05-08T04:00:00Z

Other than that modest data - Vegans may take over the world - yay! Black Vegans Step Out, for Their Health and Other Causes 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z

In the backyard of a modest house with a thriving garden, a woman in a brimmed hat festooned with streamers bends over the flowers, tending to them silently. ‘Quince’ Review: A Mexican American Tale That Explains Too Much 2022-06-10T04:00:00Z

I meet MacDowell at her house, a secluded Spanish-style property that is modest by Hollywood Hills standards and homely, with a “Hello” doormat. ‘I’d ask my mum: why do you drink?’ Andie MacDowell on childhood and Hollywood 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z

He and Mr. Benezra, already planning a more modest expansion, swiftly explored the possibility of acquiring more space and reopened negotiations. Fisher Collection at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 2010-06-05T08:48:00Z

That was probably meant as a general comment on the contemporary jazz scene, but it also felt apropos of the reality for an attendee with even modest ambitions. Critic’s Notebook: NYC Winter Jazzfest Celebrates Its 10th Anniversary 2014-01-13T00:17:41Z

Between cuts and fundraising it was able to bring in through programming changes, the Nordic Museum ended the year with “a modest deficit of 1.5% of our original operating budget,” said Anderson. Lost income, empty galleries, a pivot to permanent collections: How Seattle-area museums are weathering the pandemic 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z

Despite the modest setting, the stars always came out. After 25 Years, the Curtain Closes on ‘Theater Talk’ 2018-09-16T04:00:00Z

Like me, he’s among those who think that, on a sunny summer day, the area looks more like the Mediterranean than modest Michigan. Sahara-Level Sand Dunes, Mediterranean-Blue Water: Welcome to Michigan 2019-09-04T04:00:00Z

And you might even give your reader a modest jolt of entertainment to brighten up their day. Your Guide to Not Using So Many Exclamation Points 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z

But her discussion is more modest and self-aware. Letters to the Editor 2020-09-18T04:00:00Z

Internationally, the film earned a modest $23 million from No. 1 openings in all 26 of its markets, including Japan, Australia, Britain and Brazil. "Tron" leads weak pack of newcomers at box office 2010-12-20T02:05:27Z

As the track expands from simple piano chords to surround him with Jacob Collier’s elaborate vocal harmonies, Stormzy’s voice stays modest, as if he’s still amazed to have found his “angel.” Bruce Springsteen’s Exuberant Soul Cover, and 10 More New Songs 2022-11-11T05:00:00Z

But the job fell through, and he returned to acting, moving into a modest house in Los Angeles' San Fernando Valley. Oscar-winning film star Ernest Borgnine dies 2012-07-08T21:17:56Z

In 2014, a museum opened in the basement of the synagogue, with a modest permanent exhibit detailing its history. New York City Museums Teach the History of Immigration 2020-03-10T04:00:00Z

The paintings are about 12 inches by 16 inches, modest in size compared with her typical works on canvas. What to see in L.A. galleries: World War II farm labor camp photography and more 2016-12-23T05:00:00Z

“Project Runway” returns Thursday for its 13th season with yet another Emmy nomination for best reality television show, respectable ratings and a modest list of upcoming celebrity guest judges. ‘Project Runway’ hasn’t launched a real star, but it is a lesson in fashion today

In their modest way American movies helped pave the way for the Obama presidency by popularizing and normalizing positive images of black masculinity. Film: Hollywood?s Whiteout Year: Few Blacks on Silver Screen 2011-02-12T06:53:01Z

His first walk attracted a modest crowd of about 20, which doubled by the following spring. You Could Be in a Gay Bar Right Now and Not Even Know It 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z

The choristers, facing Sachs and the audience, sing a stirring chorale in tribute to this decent, modest man, a cobbler, and hail him in full-voiced salutations. Crowds Define Opera. They’re Also Keeping It From Returning. 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z

"But the potential rewards are not huge and infinite, they're sort of modest and there are already quite a few players in the space." Amazon launches for-pay streaming music service 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z

Opening in most other international countries this weekend, Ghosts in the Shell took in a modest $40.1m. Boss Baby trumps Beauty and the Beast to top US box office 2017-04-02T04:00:00Z

On canvases like “Industrial Night” and “Orpheus” and some marvelous untitled ones, Lewis’s lines flicker — bolts of tensile energy amid clouds of atmospheric color — expressing a vision at once opulent and disciplined, modest and encompassing. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z

The superhero pic earned an estimated $52.4 million over the weekend, easily besting the modest new openers like “God’s Not Dead 2” and “Meet the Blacks.” 'Batman v Superman' Has Steep Fall at Weekend Box Office 2016-04-03T04:00:00Z

Instead it just seems modest: surely the last thing any one ever accused Shaw or “Saint Joan” of being. Review: In Shaw’s ‘Saint Joan,’ a Sane and Sensible Martyr 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z

With a healthy cume of £10.52m, the Disney animation still has another seven days of holiday takings ahead of it, and then a more modest afterlife after kids return to school. Die Hard 5 elbows Wreck-It Ralph out 2013-02-20T09:00:03Z

My dark sweater, I was sure, was modest, but without a yarmulke, I felt like an interloper. Lost in Jerusalem 2012-01-13T15:42:55Z

Organizers expect to pull in a more modest amount of about $500,000 from U.S. donors for Obama's campaign, with many flying in to Geneva from around the world. Clooney aids Obama campaign with Geneva fundraiser 2012-08-27T12:30:14Z

An avid basketball player and golfer, it was said he eats modest portions. White House adviser spills secret: Obama loves pie 2010-04-24T06:31:00Z

The type of red that could be served in a carafe in a modest Paris hole-in-the-wall to wash down the inexpensive but delicious plât du jour. At just $13, this zippy Spanish white is a jolt of energy to your palate 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z

After landing in Marrakesh, I took a three-hour bus ride to Agadir, a coastal getaway of modest beaches, golf courses and resorts. Morocco, From Coast to Desert 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z

Eventually, Zuckerberg said, he hopes it will be used by 20 million to 30 million people — a modest slice of Facebook’s 2 billion or so users. Perspective | Facebook launches a charm offensive — and vows to pay (some) news organizations for their journalism 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z

Source: The first three novels of Daniel Handler’s 13-book series Post-Mortem: The movie was a modest success in America and overseas, earned positive reviews, and even took home an Oscar for Best Makeup.  Failed Franchises: 10 Movie Series That Weren’t 2013-11-07T10:45:16Z

There will be a full-scale environmentally friendly eco-house sponsored by Prince Charles, and a more modest show house modeled on the row houses made famous by the long-running soap opera “Coronation Street.” In Transit: At London Show, All About the Home 2011-03-10T11:00:29Z

Complimentary coffee and tea is always available; and at Prospect, the inn’s sole restaurant, a modest breakfast selection — pastries, oatmeal, smoked salmon — is offered. A Catskills Inn Gets a Modern Makeover 2017-12-23T05:00:00Z

It rises from a modest ridge above the farming village of Wachendorf. The Ascension of Peter Zumthor 2011-03-13T05:00:20Z

The group gave a triumphant performance at the Monterey International Pop Festival in 1967, but its first album, hastily recorded for the small Mainstream label and released that year, was only a modest success. Sam Andrew, Guitarist for Big Brother and the Holding Company, Dies at 73 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z

For one, he liked to say that he only learned six chords — a self-effacing explanation of his music’s modest melodic range. Eavesdropping on Leonard Cohen’s conversations with the void 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z

They've amassed a relatively modest $1 million budget for the mini-season and brought it off with a fairly lean staff and a dedicated ensemble of noted local actors and other artists. Intiman's 2012 revival season: the pluses and the minuses 2012-08-17T16:43:32Z

Vance saw himself as a modest producer of readable text, with no aspiration towards literary pretension or status. Jack Vance dies aged 96: master of bold and bizarre science fiction 2013-05-29T23:13:06Z

It was a village of dirt roads and modest, mostly Saxon-style houses; I noticed nothing out of the ordinary except several young girls carrying around guitars. Frugal Traveler: Budget-Friendly and (Almost) Dracula-Free Transylvania 2014-01-27T20:22:08Z

So in the late ’60s he returned to San Francisco, his hometown, and with a friend, Michael Hoban, began peddling women’s dresses from a little shop on Upper Grant Avenue, with modest success. North Beach Leathers Is in Business Again 2012-07-25T21:01:13Z

Although the album’s streaming numbers were modest, at 14 million, a ticket bundle deal helped her move 37,000 copies of the full album. Future’s ‘Wizrd’ Is His Sixth No. 1 Album in Four Years 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z

It’s time to bring back the composed plate with modest sides designed to complement the entree. Not all sides deserve a plate of their own 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z

Salam’s ambitions are modest enough — he would like to keep his job, maintain his dignity and have a chance with Mariam — but pursuing them pitches him toward catastrophe, farce or both. ‘Tel Aviv on Fire’ Review: Mideast Conflict as Soap Opera and Farce 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z

And, yes, the setting of a modest Sherman Oaks, Calif., home and its slightly sunken living room seems comfortably familiar — a cooler version, as my companion observed at Sunday’s opening, of the “Brady Bunch” house. At Olney, addiction tale ‘Bad Dog’ wags and snaps 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z

I was happier with the modest bundle of slenderer fare already in my bookbag. Tough tomes: are challenging books worth the effort? 2010-06-29T10:46:00Z

Mr. Glass’s own salary, while healthy, is relatively modest considering his stature. Ira Glass’s ‘This American Life’ Leaves PRI 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z

By all appearances she is dutiful and self-effacing, resigned to a life of modest expectations and low visibility. In ‘Girlhood,’ a French Adolescent Comes Out of Her Shell 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z

His terse but thoughtful songs sound close-knit, casual and real time, and the lead guitar — sometimes doubled by a harmonica, à la Nelson — is modest and acoustic, not electric. Olivia Rodrigo’s Gutsy Catharsis, and 12 More New Songs 2023-06-30T04:00:00Z

Cheers and Chores After Heather Chadduck turned this minimal space in a modest 1930s cottage into a charming laundry nook with maximum function. 2010-02-08T16:51:00Z

And yet think of the detriments – alcoholic drinks served only in plastic cups, stunt casting, standing ovations for even modest achievement. Step aside James Corden, the night goes to ... 2012-06-11T11:21:45Z

Furthermore, could he hire out his services as a letter-writer so that we might all for a modest fee take advantage of his directness and articulacy? George Clooney and the Daily Mail: can the man get any cooler? 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z

He becomes embroiled in an adventure that involves a kidnapper with unusually modest ransom demands. Sentiments and Spaghetti 2015-04-04T04:00:00Z

When you walk into the exhibit, the first thing that strikes you is the modest scale of the paintings. SAM hosts rare reunion of Jacob Lawrence’s ‘Migration Series’ 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z

Byrne’s drawings are modest affairs, not much bigger than a standard sheet of paper. David Byrne, the Artist, Is Totally Connected 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z

It was a modest film, well acted, and it did well enough. War Horse: adapt and survive 2010-08-20T23:06:00Z

Space Jam 2 will be a modest hit no matter what. Dear LeBron James: Please Make 'Space Jam 2' 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z

And now their very modest Social Security checks are being garnished by the federal government every month to pay their student loan debt. Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Americans who are hitting one obstacle after another: ‘That is why I persist’ 2021-05-17T04:00:00Z

"So we are proposing a modest increase for heavy vehicles that do the most damage." Sticker situation to reclassify cars at higher fee 2011-10-14T02:31:00Z

Margaret, now 87, lives in a neat, modest home in suburban Napa with her daughter and son-in-law. At 87, ‘Big Eyes’ artist Margaret Keane gets her Hollywood break 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z

Though a modest tribute to Dave Lewis was mounted two years ago, the Dave Lewis Revue II at Langston Hughes is more ambitious. Family reviving the sounds of Seattle rocker Dave Lewis 2013-12-04T19:38:41Z

Second date: Peppy, good-natured handling for a small, modest offering, which is basically what a car of this character is supposed to do. Car of the Week: 2013 Buick Verano 2012-05-24T21:01:50Z

That total would give Disney a modest profit, based on estimated production costs of $225 million and more than $100 million for marketing. Disney's 'Lone Ranger' starts box office ride with $2 million 2013-07-04T00:11:24Z

One of them is smaller, more modest spaces. The 25 Rooms That Influence the Way We Design 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z

You can stick with set assortments or devise your own from a modest menu of basic nigiri, sashimi and rolls. Taco Mix FonteNova, With Cemitas, Tacos and More, Opens in the Bronx 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z

As suits Mr. Amstell’s persona, it’s an ingratiatingly shy, modest greeting. Theater Review: Simon Amstell Performs Comedy in ‘Numb,’ at Theater 80 2012-07-15T21:14:20Z

But the new spin on loneliness is that we ought to welcome it, in modest doses. How to cope with loneliness | Oliver Burkeman 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z

Rorem’s twilight, like that of his peers, was a modest and quiet one. In Life and Music, Ned Rorem Was Unwaveringly Himself 2022-11-20T05:00:00Z

Barbera — a red that often acts like a white because of its high acidity and modest tannins — would be ideal. A Baked Pasta for Anytime (but Especially Now) 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z

“I always wondered how it could be that a princess of such modest birth could become one of the most powerful women of her time,” Mr. Boele said. A Hermitage Amsterdam Show Looks Closer at Catherine the Great 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z

The film took in a modest $59.3 million in 67 markets, including Great Britain, Germany, France, Russia and Australia. 'Hunger Games' battles to $155M opening weekend 2012-03-26T12:53:13Z

Harris' book is a vivid exposition of the rigors and heartache of raising horses, highly intuitive beasts with sensitive health, finicky appetites, modest intelligence and the power to maim, injure or even kill. Author Jana Harris talks horse sense 2012-01-23T02:31:43Z

Instead, they use the corrugated metal that looms over their modest home to hang their clothes to dry. Treehouses and mansions: Life in the shadow of the U.S.-Mexico fence 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z

It is possible that the modest comeback made by hats in recent years, in the form of trilbies, may be gaining momentum. At Cavalli, a New Generation?s Take on the ?70s 2011-01-17T18:10:38Z

That Mexican cartel, losing market share and foot soldiers to a rival operation, has proposed to distribute the lads’ business for a modest 20% vig. Oliver Stone's Savages: It's the Dope 2012-07-05T12:00:32Z

As space is limited, the pieces tend to be modest in size, and often in means as well. Review | In the galleries: Unique and unexpected perspectives on this moment in time 2020-09-30T04:00:00Z

It’s the modest goal so many people ache to achieve in William Boyle’s Brooklyn, though not all that many succeed. Review | William Boyle captures a slice of Brooklyn in ‘Shoot the Moonlight Out’ 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z

For their screenplay of Think Like a Man, Keith Merryman and David A. Newman took a more modest approach, creating characters with different humors to embody Harvey’s homiletics. Think Like a Man: Men and Women Behaving Bedly 2012-04-19T17:07:29Z

Although no one is entirely clear why Roger Federer is here, we are all pleased: it casts aside the pall of disappointment that had threatened to deflate the enthusiasm of the modest crowd. Pippa and James aren’t here yet ... Ooh look, is that Roger Federer? 2017-05-20T04:00:00Z

Rosa is famous for setting modest religious scenes into big, dramatic landscapes, but the settings often overwhelm the narrative, crushing it in bravura displays of artistic showmanship. Santa Barbara's 'Botticelli, Titian and Beyond' a quirky gem 2015-03-21T04:00:00Z

The modest pet fueled a series of major works that explored the apocalypse. The Secret Muse of the Downtown Scene? Turtles 2016-11-08T05:00:00Z

I would then endeavor to tweak that itinerary so that it fits my slightly more modest budget of $100. A $1,000 Day in Berlin for $100 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z

His father was a career officer in the Royal Navy and later earned a modest living as a bookkeeper. Christopher Hitchens, 1949-2011: Christopher Hitchens Is Dead at 62 ? Obituary 2011-12-16T06:27:29Z

In exchange for room and board and a modest paycheck, Shmuel agrees to talk and argue with Wald from 5 to 11 o’clock every evening. In the novel ‘Judas,’ Amos Oz wrestles with Jewish attitudes toward Jesus 2016-11-28T05:00:00Z

The work begins with a modest timpani roll typically played piano. Review: Bruckner Rises and Stalls in Hands of Two Conductors 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z

Instead there is a 10-song, single-CD album which failed to trouble the charts in Britain on its release last month, a series of small gigs and decidedly modest hopes for the future. UK band Ultrasound rises from ashes of 90s implosion 2012-10-15T15:56:31Z

She later described her parents as modest, hard-working people who never imagined their children would go to college and could not afford it if they had. E. L. Konigsburg, Author, Is Dead at 83 2013-04-23T02:33:47Z

It’s a domestic time capsule of a kind, a modest, Spartan, poignantly forsaken place with faded wallpaper. ‘Petite Maman’ Review: Into the Woods 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z

Yet “The Band’s Visit” — which follows the modest adventures of a touring Egyptian band stranded in an Israeli village significant only for its insignificance — more than holds its own on a larger stage. Review: ‘The Band’s Visit’ Is a Ravishing Musical That Whispers With Romance 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z

Indeed, some of the best-selling tanning products in recent years are of the more modest variety: gradual tanners, which use small amounts of DHA to produce a cumulative, rather than an instant, tan. Skin Deep: Skin Deep: With Self-Tanners, It?s ?Jersey Shore,? Without the Sun 2010-06-02T22:30:00Z

But "A Nightmare on Elm Street" already is headed toward a solid profit after an opening weekend that roughly matched its modest production budget of just over $30 million. 'Nightmare,' 'Iron Man' lead US, overseas bills 2010-05-02T19:31:00Z

In fact, you wonder if, in a small way, Johnson deserves a modest shrine in the history of feminism. Wits and Wives by Kate Chisholm - review 2012-11-13T16:45:01Z

Kahn acknowledged the creative limitations of the straightforward brick—of course there were many more malleable mediums—but ultimately it was the modest block he chose to explore. The Best Brick Architecture Around the World 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z

But the real appeal of this mini-blockbuster is its modest vision of a rural pastime, rendered with infinite patience. Art Review: Workers at Rest: Smoking and Playing Cards 2011-02-10T21:40:34Z

As part of his witty, modest thank-you, he did a little flourish of tap. Stanley Donen obituary 2019-02-24T05:00:00Z

For a modest and well-run new festival, it was an unexpectedly big finish. Live: Night falls on CRSSD Fest as fans take to the sea 2015-03-15T04:00:00Z

Mr. Battle is just one of several established artists at the Fringe eschewing bigger-budget projects in favor of more modest works. Some Highlights of the Fringe Festival 2010-08-12T20:47:00Z

I finally arrived at Pension am Tiefen See, where I had booked a modest room. Where Berlin’s infamous wall once stood, humans and nature now flourish 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z

Behn rose from being of modest means to hobnobbing with aristocrats. 'Or,' at Seattle Rep: A romp through the Restoration era 2012-03-30T19:00:06Z

In a video interview from his home in Los Angeles last month, McClarnon was funny and modest — perhaps self-deprecating to a fault. Zahn McClarnon Sets His Thousand-Yard Stare on the Lead 2022-06-12T04:00:00Z

While “Tangerine” was a modest breakout hit, earning seven times its $100,000 budgetduring a limited theatrical run, “The Florida Project” is Mr. Baker’s most anticipated picture yet. In Disney’s Seedy Shadow, the Magic and Hardship of ‘The Florida Project’ 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z

Many of the communities are just a sprinkling of modest houses, perhaps a basic general store, and a local bar. How the famous swimming pigs of the Bahamas came to be 2018-10-13T04:00:00Z

The film's modest £100,000 budget makes it an ideal crossover product to take to the stage. How film went to the theatre 2012-08-10T15:53:16Z

While fans marvel at what he strings together, Alameddine takes a more modest view. The Novelist Whose Twitter Feed Is a Work of Art 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z

True, “Once” — adapted from a wistful low-budget Irish movie about two young songwriters who seem destined to make sweet music together — is exotically modest by the standards of loud, expensively dressed Broadway. Theater Review: ?Once,? With Steve Kazee and Cristin Milioti, at Jacobs Theater 2012-03-19T02:00:10Z

I think he’s being really modest because I don’t think that every song is not amazing on that record. | Mark Ronson: An Admirer Of Tight Production, But of Sludge, Too 2010-10-03T02:00:00Z

The modest number is in line with early projections from the studio. 'Think Like a Man Too' keeps 'Jersey Boys' at bay with $30 million 2014-06-22T04:00:00Z

When they visited a New Haven jazz club by Gray Organschi, Father Sunghera recalls, “We were immediately captured by the quiet environment they created by modest means of bent wood.” Teach, Pray, Live 2011-04-17T04:00:06Z

In El Salvador, for example, most of the country’s modest sports infrastructure is concentrated in the capital, San Salvador, Lopez said. Latin America’s lackluster Olympics 2012-08-10T18:50:00Z

At a modest 5 feet 8 inches, Chang won’t be able to throw down a monster jam with ease. ‘Chang Can Dunk’ Review: That’s a Man’s Jam 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z

A wit in three languages, Koç describes Arter – seven stories of top-notch work on Turkey's most expensive street – as a modest beginning. Istanbul diary: Golden Horn's oligarchs return Turkey to crossroads of culture 2010-08-31T13:00:00Z

“But Sierra is much too modest to tell anyone that,” director Joshua Morgan said. Props warrior Sierra Banack is ready to help a new guild with ‘Warcraft’ 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z

In gold jewelry and luxe-looking riffs on traditional businesslike silhouettes like the suit, cardigan and turtleneck sweater, her hair loose and makeup modest, Paltrow has effectively split the difference between demure propriety and power glam. Perspective | At trial, Gwyneth Paltrow is dressing for where she’d rather be 2023-03-25T04:00:00Z

And while visiting Beaune, I would advise confining one’s dietary program to a single major meal, followed or preceded by a delicious if more modest regimen of charcuterie, bread and mustard. Seduced by Beaune in Burgundy 2015-09-30T04:00:00Z

A modest dessert menu of shaved ice, mochi and ice cream is available. Hot-pot dining at Shabu Chic 2012-08-30T20:43:04Z

I strongly favor the modest, local pub — the lymphatic system of any good city — over fancy hotel bars. A $1,000 Day in Cape Town for $100 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z

And yet mystery — truly unfathomable and utterly ordinary — is at the center of this deceptively modest Manhattan Theater Club production, which originated in London and is directed with quiet care by Richard Eyre. ‘Lucy Barton’ Review: Laura Linney Finds Her Perfect Match 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z

As an alternative, visitors might search for a more modest bed-and-breakfast in Spring Lake or nearby Sea Girt and drop in for a drink on the Breakers’ porch at sunset. ?Jersey Shore,? Reality Versus Reality TV 2011-09-09T18:55:00Z

With all the things he went through we had modest means and we struggled a lot. Real story behind Scottsboro Boys 2013-10-17T10:03:54Z

It could be that the modest scale of some of these movies was motivated by pandemic protocols, which favor lean casts and secluded locations. The Tribeca Festival Returns in Full Bloom 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z

Lately, Chan has settled into a more modest double life: making broad action comedies on both sides of the Pacific. 2010-01-16T19:10:00Z

The movie faced criticism for being too modest to be an Oscar winner, but the filmmakers and cast attended events with the real-life journalists, underscoring its heft. The Oscar Season Sizzles, Strictly by Design 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z

And incredibly modest considering her many accomplishments, including the lead actress Oscar for De Sica's 1960 harrowing World War II drama "Two Women," an honorary Oscar and the Golden Globe's Cecil B. DeMille Award. Sophia Loren calls AFI Film Festival honor 'this wonderful prize' 2014-11-12T05:00:00Z

Beer-lover Brown is charmingly modest about the tenuous nature of some of his evidence, but he spins a stoutly colourful yarn, and ends with some bracing scepticism about the modern "heritage industry". Christmas gifts 2012: the best stocking-filler books 2012-11-28T13:00:03Z

Voters then were asked whether they wanted to borrow $250 million for cultural projects, which would have meant a modest increase in property taxes to guarantee the bonds' repayment. Ford Amphitheatre to close next summer for $19.7-million makeover 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z

Its economy, long based on subsistence farming and fishing, now includes a modest tourism industry. Mexico’s Last Countercultural Coast 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z

Elsewhere, a Broadway adaptation of “1984” is doing modest business, while Robert Schenkkan’s “Building the Wall,” set in a time after Mr. Trump’s imagined impeachment, closed quickly Off Broadway. Michael Moore Says He Wants to Change Minds. So Why Is He on Broadway? 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z

It is a modest place in many ways. Flavors Cross Borders at Little Tong Noodle Shop 2017-07-11T04:00:00Z

Its average paid admission was a modest $80.44, however, reflecting the popularity of a direct mail discount offer for the show’s early weeks. ArtsBeat: Strong Starts for Two Broadway Musicals 2014-03-03T21:44:10Z

“He is too modest to boast about himself, and prefers to keep a wife in the house for that purpose,” offers a parenthetical in the script, voiced by Mr. McNall as Barrie. Theater Review: ‘This Side of Neverland,’ at Pearl Theater 2013-05-13T21:47:10Z

Another part is to keep property taxes low, and a third portion is to fund economic development, hopefully to build modest momentum to carry over after the big whoop-de-do. Appomattox, Va., linked to Civil War history, looks to the future

Inside, children of the military personnel living in the base’s modest wooden homes wave and shout “hello” to visitors, while cows and sheep graze the lush fields nearby. In Cambodia, a Shooting Range Open to Tourists 2012-11-28T00:08:31Z

In the past, any of its wine labeled “California” was made from inexpensive grapes and carried a modest price tag. Another Variable in the Winemaking Process: Climate Change 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z

These recently made pictures tend to be modest in scale and subject, but with a grand intent: “to convey a sense of being there,” according to Keiffer’s remarks. In the galleries: Washington from on high, as it was and as it was meant to be 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z

It's a considerably more modest version of Mies van der Rohe's Tugendhat House, perched like that work above a city view. Horniman Museum; Bauhaus Live – review 2012-05-26T23:05:30Z

Head through the modest and dimly lit space, perfumed by cured meats hanging overhead, and you will find a delicatessen case filled with yet more meat. Must-Eat Dishes, From Myanmar to Mexico City 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z

His son described him as an approachable, gregarious and unpretentious man “who did an enormous amount of simple physical labor” in his life and was modest about his work. Jack Vance, Writer of the Fantastical, Dies at 96 2013-06-03T02:51:11Z

He can also be as worldly-wise as La Rochefoucauld: “It is very hard for a man, however modest, to grasp the possibility that a woman who has once loved him may love him no longer.” Review | ‘Ashenden’: the perfect late summer escape read, and a classic 2019-07-31T04:00:00Z

Inevitably, since it deals with her perceptions, the novel is like its heroine in several ways: unflashy, well-intentioned, slender, modest, good at small talk. Critical eye: book reviews roundup 2011-07-29T21:55:02Z

He is much more modest and laid-back than the characters he plays on-screen, smoking as he leans toward his camera and speaks with slow deliberation about the process behind his recent work. Caleb Landry Jones is known for playing weird, kind of creepy characters. His new album is also weird and kind of creepy. 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z

My goal was modest: to drink something, anything, containing maca, a so-called superfood much praised by the yoga instructors and pro surfers whom I sometimes overheard chatting about their health and fitness regimens. The Malibu Juice Magnate 2016-10-22T04:00:00Z

The notion of a silent film, modest or grand — "The Artist" is modest — presents a bridge too far in 2012, at least for some. Oscars preview: Does silence speak, and perchance predict? 2012-02-17T15:49:00Z

If you drew a Venn diagram for your reading habits — with a circle each for speculative fiction, well-plotted mysteries and satire — the categories would overlap in modest, but vivid, segments. Dear Match Book: I’m Seeking Satirical, Semifantastical and Stand-Out Literary Fiction 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z

The means are modest, and the tunes range from short to very short, yet the music is far from simple. Review | Flasher gallops its way through Black Cat concert 2018-06-24T04:00:00Z

The minor key romance “Alone Together” is a modest affair, which credibly depicts the kinds of conversations about relationships that many people were confronted with during the early days of the pandemic. ‘Alone Together’ Review: Finding Love in a Pandemic Retreat 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z

Williams is more modest, describing himself as a carpenter. John Williams, Hollywood’s Maestro, Looks Beyond the Movies 2022-02-08T05:00:00Z

Now 97, Choucair is unable to travel to this modest summary of her life's work. Saloua Raouda Choucair: modernism off the map 2013-04-15T16:51:51Z

It echoes more lightly but undeniably through this somewhat smaller presentation of more modest works, the first survey of Polke’s photographs in New York. Art in Review: SIGMAR POLKE: ?Photoworks, 1964-2000? 2011-07-28T19:50:35Z

It is modest, observant, graceful and nonchalantly witty. Review: ‘Obit’ Follows the Team That Writes Death Notices for The Times 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z

“I just assumed because I was a novice that I would be getting auditions and working a lot more,” said Ms. Cayne, who lives in a modest home in Glendale, Calif., with her two boxers. Candis Cayne, From Chelsea Drag Queen to Caitlyn Jenner’s Sidekick 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z

In her personal documentary “King Coal,” the director Elaine McMillion Sheldon records the modern traditions — beauty pageants, local football games and modest festivals — that commemorate the once dominant natural resource that powered central Appalachia. ‘King Coal’ Review: Heavy Is the Crown 2023-08-10T04:00:00Z

But it's watchable enough, and not without modest insights into the life and work of the professional joker. Show Me the Funny ? and the unfunny 2011-07-18T13:38:39Z

The goal seemed modest enough, and so were the results. Music Review: Repast Baroque Ensemble at the Baruch Performing Arts Center 2013-05-24T21:17:11Z

A buzz was slowly building about this former embassy chef now cooking in a modest Northern Virginia storefront. How chef Peter Chang stopped running and started empire-building 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z

Family walks and hikes are a great idea, along with modest caps on screen time that steals from other activities. Chronic inflammation is frightening. Here’s what you can do about it. 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z

A picture of modest virtues, like David O. Russell’s Silver Linings Playbook, may trip on the red carpet and wilt in the heat of a Saturday evening screening at the cavernous Roy Thomson Hall. Silver Linings Playbook: Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence Go Dancing on the Edge 2012-09-11T13:00:54Z

Mr. Hanson’s output as a director was modest but versatile: 14 feature films and a handful of additional screenwriting credits over four decades. Curtis Hanson, director of crime drama ‘L.A. Confidential,’ dies at 71 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z

Or, more precisely, to his modest house an hour south in Dana Point, where the self-taught artist began to devote his life to painting at the age of 48. Go to LACMA for John McLaughlin, possibly the most important postwar artist you don't know 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z

Industry touts forecast another Disney disappointment, like last year's The Princess and the Frog, and predicted that would earn a modest $40 million to $50 million over the five days. 'Harry Potter' Tops 'Tangled' at Thanksgiving Box Office 2010-12-14T05:15:00Z

The role is modest but she gives it sparkling wry humor and her familiar warmth, and is allowed to perform without the dialect so beloved by white Hollywood. The Glory of Nina Mae McKinney, an Early Black Star in White Hollywood 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z

For that reason, the presale estimates on Mrs. Mellon’s furniture were startlingly modest. Inside Bunny Mellon’s World 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z

The other, “Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps,” directed by , has been a modest success for 20th Century Fox, with about $48 million in domestic ticket sales since its opening in late September. One Star, Two Films: An Awards Conundrum 2010-10-20T22:29:00Z

The CIA financed the effort — at first with a modest $10,000 — under the rubric of a new company called Bedford Publishing. Isaac Patch, who led CIA-financed program to distribute books in the Soviet Union, dies

On an average night, both band members and the crowd are regulars — a reflection of this modest, sometime insular city. Next Stop: A Dutch Town That Nurtures Its Quirks 2010-02-19T16:28:00Z

It’s taken five years of planning, during which the original scheme was streamlined into a considerably more modest building. Inside Art: Cartoons by Yoshitomo Nara at Park Avenue Armory 2010-07-15T22:06:00Z

Seating is arranged in a modest rake, ending with a stage that is normally three feet below street level. New York Theater Workshop Is Transformed for a Show 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z

After dinner I walked along the Clark Fork River and across a bridge to Maclean’s boyhood home, a modest Craftsman with a wide front porch and white picket fence. Fly-Fishing in Montana, Where a River Still Runs Through It 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z

He built a clumsy labyrinth based on half-heard conspiracy theories, well known hoaxes, and misunderstood speculation that came up in his most cursory of research to form the basis for a very modest pulpy thriller. I think Dan Brown turned my parents into QAnoners 2020-12-19T05:00:00Z

Today, Mr. Jones remains a modest, vigorous multi-instrumentalist and producer with a charming lack of musical borders. Pop & Rock Listings for Feb. 14-20 2014-02-13T23:22:48Z

The following year, his modest beginnings continued on television, in Dragnet, and on the big screen in De Toth's Springfield Rifle, leading to further work in both mediums. Fess Parker obituary 2010-03-18T23:30:00Z

In a market lagging 12 to 18 months behind that of the United States, a “very modest” recovery is underway. The New York Times - Breaking News, World News & Multimedia 2014-01-23T16:19:39Z

One of Mr. Taufik’s two wives answered the door of their modest home, and he greeted me on his front deck in a T-shirt and pajama pants. This Indonesian Island Is a Respite From Bali. At Least for Now. 2017-08-30T04:00:00Z

Although Liszt never really lived in the city, he rented three modest rooms that now form the museum. The hot Liszt 2010-12-27T21:30:01Z

The Christian publishing world is chock-full of devotionals, collections of daily spiritual texts that sell at a modest, regular pace through gift shops and church bookstores. Sarah Young, 77, Dies; Created an Empire Around a Christian Devotional 2023-09-08T04:00:00Z

Of modest height, he walks with a swagger of someone who saves lives for lunch. I wanted to publish a book before I died 2016-02-14T05:00:00Z

"The Daily Show" and "Colbert Report" get modest ratings on basic cable, yet their rippling influence gives Comedy Central a tidy bang for the buck. 2010-01-14T20:15:00Z

The Somerset Maugham award is more refreshing: not only is the list of winners disarmingly freer of the usual suspects, but the comparatively modest prize must be spent on foreign travel. I've got chronic prize fatigue 2010-10-09T10:00:00Z

While only a modest hit, the game inspired an anime series, several comics, and two CDs. Top 10 Fantasy RPG Video Games 2011-11-15T12:00:59Z

“Gwendy’s Button Box,” written in conjunction with Cemetery Dance founder Richard Chizmar, is a modest but resonant novella set in one of King’s signature locales: the small town of Castle Rock, Maine. Stephen King and Richard Chizmar put the fate of the world in a girl’s hands 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z

The perk for aldermen also shows how the Daley administration leveraged city pension funds for political purposes rather than protecting the modest, sustainable retirement benefits promised to city workers. Aldermen to reap generous pensions 2012-05-01T02:03:00Z

Though Clark argued that Byrne’s more capable of finding the right pieces, she was merely acting modest beneath a tall shadow. David Bryne & St. Vincent Go Big with Love This Giant 2012-09-11T17:00:26Z

A second question arises, this one about scale: How can such obviously monument-minded art feel so modest, even delicate? Carl Andre’s Epic Sculptures, United at Dia:Beacon 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z

This modest exhibit does more than examine car culture. ‘Grease’ exhibit in Auburn a blast from region’s past 2013-08-22T21:08:03Z

But if it is a modest display, it is one with a compelling humanist undercurrent that defines both Mr. Struth and the Met. ‘Thomas Struth: Photographs’ at the Metropolitan Museum 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z

The land once belonged to a couple of adventurous vintners, who put out seating and began hosting modest musical events there. ‘Enormous: The Gorge Story’ Review: A Musical Paradise 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z

With that album, Beach House pushed past its old stasis, sometimes reaching for the majesty of dream-pop’s less modest relations, like Pink Floyd and Smashing Pumpkins. Music Review: Floating Through Fog, And Yet Structured 2011-02-24T23:42:02Z

But research has also shown that drugs such as these have thus far only had a modest effect on women’s sexual experiences. Stop medicalizing female desire: Here’s what the scientific breakthroughs in sex science still don’t tell us about women 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z

Instead of scaling up for Broadway, the cast will remain modest. 'Dames at Sea' Will Sail to Broadway This Fall 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z

In the end, the changes were relatively modest. Sony wrestles with how to market 'Interview' amid geopolitics, scandal 2014-12-13T05:00:00Z

On an end-of-April weekend that usually sees studios holding a yard sale for their least loved trinkets, four low-budget films made modest to poor showings. An Early Summer Heat Wave: The Avengers Sizzles Abroad 2012-04-29T19:50:49Z

Two decades into a career as a hit maker for the likes of Jay Z, Britney Spears, Snoop Dogg, No Doubt and many more, he was being modest. Round-the-Clock Giddiness in a 24-Hour Music Video 2013-12-25T23:06:53Z

A handful of cranberries is tossed into the mix, along with just enough butter to add a modest layer of richness. Ellie Krieger’s healthful brown betty, with apples and cranberries

It started as a relatively modest venture at New Jersey’s Paper Mill Playhouse. Perspective | Read all about it: Why Disney owns the live stage, too 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z

Jesús Cepeda was seated on a cot in the modest three-bedroom home where he was raised with 10 brothers and sisters and a few other relatives. Bomba: The Enduring Anthem of Puerto Rico 2018-07-07T04:00:00Z

Heading into the 19th century, Shanghai was a modest trading port that exploded after being “opened” to the world by Western imperialism. Conquering High-Priced Shanghai, From Dumplings to Modern Art 2018-02-28T05:00:00Z

It was the perfect early autumn weather for a night in the Rose Garden, a more modest setting in which the Obamas hosted German Chancellor Angela Merkel just over eight years ago. Trump brushes off political controversy to wine and dine Australia at state dinner 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z

I arrived for my six weeks in New Zealand with the modest hope that I might produce, say, 12,000 words. Writing a book isn't supposed to be fun 2013-03-28T11:04:05Z

What’s fascinating about this decrease, however modest, is that in recent years more and more Americans are cooking at home – precisely the target audience for Cook’s and America’s Test Kitchen. Chris Kimball has left the kitchen: will Cook's Illustrated survive without him? 2015-12-06T05:00:00Z

Though it occupies the entire building, the show of only 14 works feels intimate, even modest. Mark Bradford Strikes a Pose of Quiet Self-Reflection 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z

Even creative side hustles such as digital releases and curbside popcorn “are relatively modest hedges against what is a major blow,” Becker says. Perspective | With the theatrical movie business in peril, art houses might hold the key to survival 2020-04-22T04:00:00Z

We were pleasantly surprised by these modest roadside accommodations, which are usually abundant on the outskirts of town, but can sometimes be more centrally located. In Ensenada, Cheap Mexican Charms Await 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z

I started in a modest way in the theater. Ian McKellen on playing straight: “Heterosexuality is far too interesting a phenomenon to be ignored” 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z

It's our modest attempt to broaden the world of soccer broadcasting. British Sea Power on tour: from Helsinki to the FA Cup final 2013-05-23T18:00:01Z

The final short story in this modest collection is “Late Lunch,” which is also the longest sequence of the film. ‘Love Is Love Is Love’ Review: Aging Too Gracefully 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z

Americans donated a record $373 billion to charity in 2015, a testament to both the vast needs in this country and the willingness of even those with modest means to lend a hand. The fabulous CharityWorks galas raised millions for good causes over the years. Then something changed. 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z

Not because it was the grandest—it was modest compared with the spectacular public rooms downstairs—but because the quality of its loveliness was the hardest to define. The City at the Bottom of the Sea 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z

Sander’s macrocosmic mission was the classification of the German character; Guy’s modest aim, like that of so many young women, was to classify the microcosm of herself. A Gallerist’s Feminist Self-Portraits Find a Second Life 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z

Over the first few days there were mildly friendly reviews and a modest flow of visitors. Two Exhibitions Re-examine the 1913 Armory Show 2012-10-28T04:27:18Z

Both "The Last Exorcism" and "Takers" debuted well above studio expectations, though the openings were modest compared with most big summer debuts. 'Exorcism' has slim box-office lead over 'Takers' 2010-08-29T20:31:00Z

Despite featuring in the Transformers movies, Josh Duhamel never looked an easy sell as the main star of an action film, and audiences may have surmised that Bruce Willis's role is modest. Oz the Great and Powerful aims over the rainbow, Side Effects also appealing 2013-03-12T13:05:13Z

I've had a very modest life, I think, in every respect, and I find it hard to talk about that, for that reason. Fiona Shaw: 'I'm not frightened of hard words' 2012-07-17T18:01:00Z

FOR a couple of hours each night a modest stage with little more than a desk, some water bottles and a funny-looking microphone is transformed into a humid Amazonian forest. Into the forest 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z

The only native group represented here was the choir Pomerium in a modest concert in Weill Recital Hall. English Ensembles Crown a Festival of Early Music 2015-05-03T04:00:00Z

The band also toured in the United States, with more modest results. Gustavo Cerati, a Star of South America’s Pop Scene, Dies at 55 2014-09-07T04:00:00Z

In their modest formats, with drones and unisons, careful canons and elegant minuets, these juvenile works have a schoolroom feel. Cuarteto Casals; Beethovenfest Bonn 2012 – review 2012-10-13T23:06:30Z

Mr. Linklater, whose earlier work as a playwright includes the more modest “The Vandal,” has built this latest offering from grand architectural blueprints. Review: ‘The Whirligig’ Is a Feast for Actors, by a Knowing Chef 2017-05-21T04:00:00Z

In his “Tower of the Koutoubia Mosque,” a broad pink mosque stands in front of a cluster of houses, a modest line of trees, and the undulating snow-capped peaks of the lavender Atlas Mountains. Churchill’s Aura, and Bright Colors, Draw New Fans to His Art 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z

Gehry’s design — with its 80-foot columns and steel tapestries depicting the boyhood roots of the notoriously modest president — has caused major delays for the memorial, which was supposed to be open six years ago. Eisenhower Memorial panel moves foward with controversial Gehry design

A modest addition would tuck behind the garden. Critic’s Notebook: Frick Collection Returns to Square One, a Prized Garden Intact 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z

At that first Thanksgiving together he grudgingly added a modest scoop of my from-scratch preparation to his plate and ended up finishing every morsel. The great mac and cheese debate, and my go-to recipe for the holidays 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z

“Not in our wildest dreams,” said Mr. Skillman, a slightly built 36-year-old with a neatly trimmed beard and a modest, unassuming manner. The Making of Virtually Real Art With Google’s Tilt Brush 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z

Wilkins, who became American Ballet Theatre’s music director in 2005, is too modest to say this, so I shall: Ballet conductors are the hidden heroes of the art form. In ballet, conductors are the dancers’ guardian angels 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z

In the realm of Silicon Valley, where tech entrepreneurs wear luxury T-shirts and hoodies as their business uniform, the lack of tie was a modest nod to subversiveness. Perspective | Kamala Harris embraced black. That was both unremarkable and theatrically powerful. 2019-06-28T04:00:00Z

Nearly 700 housing units with free utilities and low rents averaging about $17 a month replaced the former neighborhood of mostly modest Victorian residences. Taking the long view of First Hill, ca. 1940 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z

They spoke of their companies’ modest beginnings, of achieving the American Dream and of the unique wonders of capitalism. Perspective | Tech titans gave their House testimony virtually. But it was the congressmen who departed from reality. 2020-07-29T04:00:00Z

The restaurant industry, despite modest gender parity among the rank-and-file, is sorely, urgently in need of more women leaders, and it is good to see a few stepping into high-profile positions. Gabrielle Hamilton, April Bloomfield, and the Problem with Leaving Women to Clean Up the Mess 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z

It hardly seems like a revolutionary, or even novel, idea, to put together a similar combination of good wine, clear packaging and modest prices. How to Sell Good, Inexpensive Wines Without Pandering 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z

Even at the end of a stellar career he was modest about his achievements, and after taking early retirement in 1987 he continued to be active in professional and vocational design education. Alick Smithers obituary 2013-02-14T17:37:07Z

That was reflected in such works as “Onion Peddler,” “El Wino” and “Downtown Intellectual,” as well as still others of zoot-suited Chicano youths and of children playing in the modest yards of their homes. Emigdio Vasquez, pioneer in Chicano art movement, dies at 75

Mr. Buttigieg’s modest aim at the time was “dating a little outside the television viewing area of South Bend.” ‘Mayor Pete’ Gets Married, Then Takes His Husband to a Pride Party 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z

Fast and fizzy and relentlessly buoyant, “Tetris” finds its heart in the connection between these two men, the game’s modest creator and its tenacious evangelist. ‘Tetris’ Review: Falling Blocks and Rising Freedom 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z

Universal has a more modest forecast, in the mid-to-high teens, but some analysts think it could surpass expectations thanks to positive word-of-mouth. 'Ant-man' eyes big opening 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z

Fallen women who displayed the right kind of modest contrition became the object of fashionable charities. The Origins of Sex by Faramerz Dabhoiwala - review 2012-02-10T22:55:05Z

We were told that her modest estate would be divided evenly among her three children, with one exception. In a Mother’s Library, Bound in Spirit and in Print 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z

“Alcatraz,” also on Fox, held its ground in its second week with only a modest drop to just under 9 million viewers from the 10 million who tuned in to last week’s premiere. ArtsBeat: 'House' and the Big House Lift Fox 2012-01-24T20:03:08Z

Whenever I watch one, I think of a more modest episode in my own life. Seeing and Hearing for the First Time, on YouTube 2015-08-18T04:00:00Z

They are dignified yet homey: authoritative watchmen who, in their settings, are quite modest, with no airs. Pursuits: Austin’s Moon Towers, Beyond ‘Dazed and Confused’ 2014-02-13T15:08:48Z

It’s not an overwhelming experience, by design; it’s modest in its weirdness. New Music: New Music by the Hold Steady, Future Islands, Caetano Veloso 2014-03-24T22:45:20Z

Iowans may already know where it came from: Canteen Lunch in Ottumwa, a modest meatpacking city of 25,000. Frugal Traveler: Eating in Iowa: Farm-Fresh, Fried and Frugal 2013-08-14T22:43:34Z

Four other world records were set at more modest levels with pictures that do not inspire boundless admiration. Auctions: Eagerness to Buy Old Masters at Odds With Their Availability in Auctions 2011-07-08T12:00:05Z

Yet it’s my contention that most of the greatest wines of the world are modest wines. The Profound Modesty of Good Dolcetto 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z

Hauser’s art delivers a punch time and time again from a modest palette of mainly primary and secondary colors. Celebrating Self-Taught Artists at a Center in Austria 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z

My aunt’s invisibility and the modest dress and comportment I was supposed to adopt were designed to protect our virtue. My life behind India’s purdah 2013-01-04T18:32:00Z

The modest production by James Robinson is well traveled. San Diego Opera seizes the hour with prophetic 'Nixon in China' 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z

As with most niche cable dramas, the ratings are modest — the most recent episode drew just under 1 million viewers a week. ‘Killing Eve’: The Showrunner and Stars on the Love Story Behind the Sleeper Hit 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z

Thursday night at the Bridgestone Arena here, they brought one of the most successful careers in the country music business, with tens of millions of albums sold, to a close, modest to the end. Music Review: Thrown Together but Hard to Imagine Apart 2010-09-03T22:47:00Z

It might also lead to other small distributors rethinking release strategies for modest genre fare, ideally titles that start with “The” followed by a creepy word. Did arthouse horror hit The Witch trick mainstream US audiences? 2016-02-23T05:00:00Z

I also really enjoy the Belle Jardin Blanc de Blanc from France — not champagne, but bright, tasty and best of all, affordable at a modest $15. Sparkling rosé and the other best wines to set your Valentine’s Day mood 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z

While "A Nightmare on Elm Street" opened well, overall business was modest, continuing a lull as theaters prepare for the summer season, Hollywood's busiest time. 'Nightmare,' 'Iron Man' lead US, overseas bills 2010-05-02T19:31:00Z

He rather sweetly said that for now, his aspirations for his newfound freedom are modest. Bruce Jenner, Embracing Transgender Identity, Says ‘It’s Just Who I Am’ 2015-04-25T04:00:00Z

There may be people, Weilerstein admits, who are put off by even a modest staging, or by her tinkering with performance traditions. A Cellist Breaks Music Into ‘Fragments,’ Then Connects Them 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z

This sweet, modest, romantic interlude is as clichéd as it is contrived. | Theater in the Dark, With Lights: Lots of Modern Angst, and Free Beer 2011-02-11T22:30:51Z

There was evidently a socially broad, even "middle-class" market for these paintings; and their styles and subjects are as modest as their presentation. Rebellious Rembrandt, Dutch explorer of the infinite 2011-01-11T15:26:42Z

Mr. Weber was far more modest, though he did note that the film involved possibly 35 actors and a crew of 20 for production. On the Runway Blog: Bruce Weber's Dogs and Children 2011-09-26T15:46:47Z

He chastised the media for a number of things, but seemed to resent most of all its insistence that he be contrite or modest when he is not asking for forgiveness. Charlie Sheen brings rambling road show to a close in Everett 2011-05-04T20:05:06Z

The Wall Street Journal called it terrific, "modest, honest, funny and frequently moving." Broken toe spurs Neil Young to write 1st book 2012-10-05T11:36:10Z

Prosecutors and regulators could either negotiate a modest settlement and declare victory or take on the daunting task of bringing actual people to trial — with the significant risk of losing. America’s Top Prosecutors Used to Go After Top Executives. What Changed? 2017-07-05T04:00:00Z

By comparison, the Creation Museum, 45 miles away, seems modest and antiquated. A giant ark is just the start. These creationists have a bigger plan for recruiting new believers. 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z

And in the contemporary interview segments here the members are modest, soft-spoken, thoughtful and hardly at all burned out. ‘Cypress Hill: Insane in the Brain’ Review: Influential Rappers, Still Smokin’ 2022-04-20T04:00:00Z

And the modest and simple shoes, like this neutral high-heeled pump, complemented the opulent clothes while also looking casual enough to wear every day. | Mary Katrantzou’s High-Heeled Loafers 2014-02-17T01:37:03Z

“People were hooting and clapping. I thought we had a hit on our hands. Maybe not ‘The Hangover,’ but a modest hit.” Will Forte Is Still Waiting for ‘MacGruber’ to Blow Up 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z

Andrews's payday for "Flowers in the Attic" was modest. 10 facts about V.C. Andrews's "Flowers in the Attic" 2021-06-28T04:00:00Z

New Yorkers who prize conversation starters above all other consumables will likely find eccentric treasures at this modest but enjoyable show. 18 Art Exhibitions to View in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z

By her own admission, Donoghue's literary earnings were modest until now; with Room she earned a chunky advance. Real-life tragedies for real-life cash 2010-08-13T08:13:00Z

As modern and as modest, she might have added. A Tribute to Women Who Reinvent Themselves, in Two Wardrobes at the Met 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z

In this rolling Cotswolds countryside, on a narrow road northwest of Oxford, Martin and Lizzie Graham have built a modest opera house in their front garden. Review: ‘Tristan und Isolde’ Brings Thunder to the Longborough Festival 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z

Made on a modest $30-million budget, it was neither a big success nor a major flop. 'If I Stay' star Chloë Grace Moretz's box-office stats and future films 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z

His poetry is imbued with the modest substance of his life. Jim Jarmusch’s “Paterson” and the Myth of the Solitary Artist 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z

The modest, bedroom-pop-like production stays patient and contained until it isn’t. Paramore Steps Into a New Era, and 8 More New Songs 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z

She has been compared to the Dutch masters for her sense of silence and light, for the quality of patient attention that gilds the most modest moments. Marilynne Robinson’s Essays Reflect an Eccentric, Exasperating, Profound and Generous Mind 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z

Apart from the Strip’s early days of modest motel resorts, the 188-room newcomer, officially opening Memorial Day weekend, is the Strip’s first stand-alone boutique hotel. A Las Vegas Boutique Hotel With Star Power 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z

The Hessel’s gathering of work by 28 artists is far more modest in scale, and largely homegrown. For Black Artists, the Motivating Power of Melancholia 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z

All the while, their sister-in-law, Sasha — who comes from a modest background — is trying to navigate her place while living in the family’s house with her husband, Cord. 22 Works of Fiction to Read This Spring 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z

He is at once too big and too modest, too simple in his needs and too unruly in the way he expresses them. ‘Una Vita Difficile’ Review: Life Comes at You Fast 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z

Ensconced in modest galleries at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, its 40 works are drawn entirely from that museum’s collection and form a freewheeling introduction to staged photography. Review: ‘Grand Illusions’ Showcases Deceptive Photography 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z

And brightly painted homes of concrete — a material Ms. Kincaid associated with Lebanese and Syrian property owners — now outnumber the modest clapboard houses in many parts of the island. Jamaica Kincaid’s Antigua 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z

What, besides the bloviated tweets that will accompany even the most modest ratings victory? A modest proposal: Let’s not watch Arnold Schwarzenegger on “The New Celebrity Apprentice” 2017-01-01T05:00:00Z

The “opening” was a digital one, a modest livestreamed tour of the exhibition spaces with short statements by curators and other leading figures from the project. Humboldt Forum in Berlin Finally Opens (Kind of) 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z

Once talked up as a potential James Bond, MacCorkindale's career proved more modest. Actor Simon MacCorkindale dies of cancer at 58 2010-10-16T13:01:00Z

But there is also a rich heritage of architecturally innovative housing in Los Angeles that is modest in scale and elegantly woven into gardens by architects including Neutra, Paul R. Williams and Irving Gill. Here are better ideas for the land Caltrans has stockpiled for the 710 Freeway extension 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z

At two other major Paris sights — Notre-Dame and Sacré-Cœur — a modest dress code is being enforced; visitors with shorts or uncovered shoulders may be turned away. What’s new for 2018 in France and Switzerland 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z

Finally, Clooney may still be directing mediocre movies, but this melancholic coming-of-age film is more good than ambitious — and that may be why, even with its failings, "The Tender Bar" yields some modest pleasures. In George Clooney's coming-of-age flick "The Tender Bar," Ben Affleck provides the gooey center 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z

He’s so smart, very modest and realistic about life.” Schubert’s Sonatas, and a Pianist, Come Into Their Own 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z

Man with Down syndrome seeks "Girlfriend" Taken as a whole, Justin Lerner's debut feature "Girlfriend" -- a surprise hit at last fall's Toronto International Film Festival -- is a modest, uneven example of regional American independent film. Man with Down syndrome seeks "Girlfriend" 2011-07-15T19:16:00Z

“Reagan” stretches from his modest boyhood in Dixon, Ill., to the “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall” visit to Berlin, and beyond, touching on the fog of Alzheimer’s. TV Watch: Remembering the Reagan We May Never Know 2011-02-04T18:54:16Z

While set to the same storming Prokofiev score, in terms of scale it's much more modest. Sir Frederick Ashton's Romeo & Juliet ? review 2011-07-16T23:06:38Z

They are refreshingly modest and understated, yet exquisite. From 2018, Indelible Messages From the Past 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z

The evidence from the ten El Niño events in the past five decades suggests relatively modest and to some extent ambiguous, global price impacts. What this year’s El Niño means for wheat and global food supply 2023-07-17T04:00:00Z

Light as a feather, the movie is at times a modest pleasure, but inconsequential. The Oranges: A Sunshiny Take on Infidelity 2012-10-04T15:30:43Z

They kept memories of a modest childhood in Queens at bay. Move Over, Est?e Lauder 2011-06-10T20:07:05Z

Mr. Simons comes from the Flemish town of Neerpelt, the only son of a modest family. Dior Turns to Raf Simons 2012-04-09T16:27:12Z

While sales of electric and hybrid vehicles have been modest among mainstream motorists, demand has proved—somewhat counterintuitively—strongest in affluent communities, where fuel costs tend to be less of a concern. Cadillac Debuts the Sharp 2014 ELR Electric Coupe 2014-01-20T05:00:00Z

Two other Oscar-aiming films went wider this weekend, with modest to encouraging results. Catching Fire and Frozen: Hollywood Gives Thanks for Girl Power 2013-12-02T00:05:54Z

A few days ago, a fifty-per-cent-off clearance-sale sign appeared in the window of St. Mark’s Bookshop’s modest storefront on East Third Street, and this time it is really the end. What Went Wrong at St. Mark’s Bookshop 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z

Margaret's Grocery started as a modest store north of Vicksburg off U.S. Miss. folk artist 'Preacher' Dennis dies at 96 2012-09-07T01:16:03Z

The tiny storefront and modest décor are fitting for a 30-year-old local favorite. A Honeymoon Through Italy 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z

“She will work Saturday and Sunday too,” her father, who is Ecuadorean, tells her amused mentor, whose goals for the internship are more modest and less narrowly focused. | 'Whiz Kids': Smart Students Go After Intel?s Science Prize 2010-06-04T00:17:00Z

We then turn back the decades to chart her progression from her modest Minnesota origins to a wealthy televisual messiah with a hotline to God. Review: Praise the Lord for ‘Tammy Faye’ 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z

Edelkoort’s concept for the exhibition — which sounds a lot like her trend forecasts — foresees “a break with a materialistic mentality” and a return to “modest earthbound and recomposed matter,” envisioning “a Fred Flintstone of tomorrow.” | Post Fossil 2011-01-26T14:00:49Z

If you’re in the market next fall for a good-looking peacoat or streamlined overcoat with modest military styling, this collection is worth a look. On the Runway Blog: Dries Van Noten: Wilde but Not Crazy 2012-01-19T20:34:08Z

It was the late 1990s and Mr. Vedder was in Hawaii, decompressing after a tour with his band, Pearl Jam, when one of those modest, four-stringed instruments caught his eye in an out-of-the-way drugstore. Ukulele Crazy 2011-04-17T00:31:06Z

For a show that set out with modest expectations, the release of its latest installment might be the TV event of the summer. ‘Lupin’ Took the World by Stealth. Part 2 Can’t Be So Sneaky. 2021-06-11T04:00:00Z

“Her requirements were not modest,” the judge observed. Not enough fish: woman successfully sues dating agency over lack of men 2018-08-15T04:00:00Z

But if I had a discrete and sun-baked lawn area of modest size, where fescues struggle to look good, a warm-season grass would be tempting, especially with new hybrids bred for superior traits. Looking for a more resilient and less needy lawn? Try zoysia or bermuda grasses. 2021-08-10T04:00:00Z

“My mom is Chinese. My dad wanted us to be very modest.” A Pandemic Romance Worth the Wait, and the ‘Schlep’ 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z

“There’s something very attractive about a community with strong values we share: respect for parents, respect for elders, close knit families, modest lifestyles. We may not live that way, but we admire it.” Netflix’s ‘Shtisel’ Is Binge-Worthy TV on a Strict Form of Judaism 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z

A pedestal will be created for the sculpture, which sits on a small island of lawn, surrounded by modest rose bushes, with wilting blossoms in the yellow and white hues of the Vatican. AP Interview: Pope sculptor gets second chance 2011-09-28T11:46:04Z

As Oxford explains, it’s “an ostensibly modest or self-deprecating statement whose actual purpose is to draw attention to something of which one is proud.” Neckbeard, mansplain, now in Oxford Dictionary online: Amazeballs 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z

Yet the latter appear modest next to black-and-white epics such as “Whose Woods Are These?” Review | In the galleries: Dark hues that paint unsettling portents 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z

The 38 examples of it at China Institute are, for the most part, modest in scale, but they come straight from the source. Art Review: At China Institute, Envisioning Confucius, an Abstraction 2010-03-25T22:43:00Z

In short you get, through modest means, a big art experience: beauty, deepened by information, leading to contemplation. Art Review: ‘The Adoration of the Magi’ at Museum of Biblical Art 2012-08-10T04:40:08Z

Ulysses Temper is the modest, searching, wandering protagonist. Does Life Imitate Art or Is It the Other Way Around? 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z

Deyrolle appears to be a modest gardening store at street level, but ascend to the second floor to find an exotic emporium filled with rhino heads, panther skeletons, tortoise shells and all manner of taxidermy. What to Do in Left Bank, Paris 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z

Mr. Rylance is too modest to describe himself as on full burn, but New York theatergoers know otherwise. Putting the Juice in ?Jerusalem? 2011-04-07T19:58:14Z

Originally modest in size, documenta's budget is now around 25 million euros, and artworks are shown throughout the city in parks, museums, cinemas, and the train station, "like an exploded museum", according to Christov-Bakargiev. What is art? German fair tests limits 2012-06-08T15:38:49Z

There is, of course, the small matter of that modest sports day in East London. Avignon festival week one roundup: Complicite is masterful, Camille captivating 2012-07-19T13:16:45Z

The show deftly blends luscious sounds, played with plenty of room to appreciate them, with human voices that offer the modest enlightenment of public radio. “Slow Radio,” The Podcast That Promotes Monks, Moose, and Inner Peace 2019-01-04T05:00:00Z

Indie is a small, modest, and personalised version of music in contrast to the mainstream seen as large, distant, vulgar and unspecialised. Ask the indie professor: why shout for a song the band will never play? 2010-08-16T13:39:00Z

And she becomes a one-woman girl group in “Say You’re Sorry,” a breakup song demanding exactly that modest concession, and in “Not Alone,” a study in separation anxiety. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2010-09-05T21:33:00Z

At this year’s Telluride Film Festival, A. O. Scott called it “affectionate and searching” in The New York Times, and The Hollywood Reporter described it as “one of the modest but genuinely pleasant surprises.” Ethan Hawke Films ‘Seymour: An Introduction’ 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z

One of the most upbeat pictures is Vincent Smith’s portrait of a woman in African dress in front of a modest house. Review | In the galleries: ‘Archiving Eden’ exhibition sprouts interest with macro photos 2019-07-05T04:00:00Z

And indeed, Cattelan lives a strangely modest life, especially for an artist at the very top of the international pecking order. A Fine Italian Hand 2010-10-11T18:30:00Z

Just 38 percent of the material was sold, raising a modest £1.7 million. At Auctions, Russian Oligarchs Start to Hedge Their Bets 2014-11-28T05:00:00Z

The film’s young man of good heart and modest background — we might call him the Gosling — is a Marine Corps sergeant named Logan Thibault. Movie Review: ?The Lucky One,? Based on the Nicholas Sparks Novel 2012-04-19T14:00:00Z

Uber changed its logo, too, to a demure sans-serif display—white against a black background, its only flourish a modest pair of mirrored stems attached to the “U” and the “b.” Uber and the Ongoing Erasure of Public Life 2019-02-18T05:00:00Z

The program was grueling, and the cost of tuition created an enormous burden for her parents, whose income was modest. Zhang Huoding of Peking Opera Takes a Turn in the United States 2015-08-30T04:00:00Z

Prospective buyers had left commission bids with the auctioneer, but their ambitions were modest. The Beauty of the Modest Auction 2011-01-21T14:30:05Z

Harris, 59, and Zucker, 58, are modest, collegial and quick to laugh, which conforms with the impression you get from their videos. How two professors transformed the teaching of art history 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z

“I’m from a Muslim family, and we wear modest clothing,” he said. Back to School With Tan France 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z

Division winners will compete for the modest title of Best in the World. In Jennifer Lopez’s ‘World of Dance,’ the Dancers Are the Stars 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z

On Thursday the tour came to New York City, where Mr. May spoke before a modest but appreciative crowd at the Barnes & Noble branch in TriBeCa. Village Green, Preserved: Brian May?s Photo Recovery 2010-07-23T23:25:00Z

In person, he is modest and self-effacing — not one to draw attention to himself. In ‘The Duke,’ Jim Broadbent Puts an Eccentric at the Center 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z

When you visit Lingot Martin, it seems like a fairly modest sized operation, yet it dwarfs all others in the area. Bubbles, With Joy: Pétillant Naturel’s Triumphant Return 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z

Current data suggest only modest, if any, weight loss in human participants who undergo these diet regimens when compared to calorie-restricted diets. Does it matter what time of day I eat? And can intermittent fasting improve my health? 2023-08-03T04:00:00Z

Post a modest picture, and people will think you’re more competent, more of a friend prospect, and more pretty. The real problem with sexy profile pics 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z

To put it another way: If the most modest expectations cannot be met, indeed must be crushed, then What Is Life? Carrie: A Remake Not Worth the Blood or Bother 2013-10-18T21:34:26Z

So the 53-year-old director and his collaborators scraped together a modest $46,000 budget, rented a theater and crossed their fingers. Staging ‘Hair’ With Actors Who Are Losing Theirs 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z

We agreed I would tend bar, herd people along on the hikes, and do whatever else my modest skill set would allow. My Five-Week-Long First Date 2021-01-01T05:00:00Z

The novelist and musician James McBride was recently teaching six eager but distractible children to play keyboards in the basement of a modest church in the Red Hook neighborhood of Brooklyn. Godfather of Soul Inspires the Spirit of James McBride to Write a Biography 2016-03-30T04:00:00Z

The hotel is steps from McCarren Park, with its large swimming pool, and a more modest park on the East River that hosts Smorgasburg, a crowded outdoor food market, from April to October. Hotel Review: Generation Laptop Finds a Home in Brooklyn 2018-11-10T05:00:00Z

“Her fortitude and joyful embrace of music that lifted her from modest circumstances to the international spotlight remain vibrant and inspired.” Roberta Flack Has A.L.S. and Can No Longer Sing, Her Publicist Says 2022-11-14T05:00:00Z

Bob was a loving, good-humoured and modest man who enjoyed gardening. Bob Cuff obituary 2010-04-14T17:37:00Z

In monologues, Ms. Rajan in a moment switched from enraged hostility to defeated suffering, from hearty laughter to modest shyness, from entreaty to adoration. Indian Dance and Music at the Drive East Festival 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z

Tucked in the new Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, which opened Thursday in Los Angeles, is a surprisingly modest exhibit of “significant Oscars.” The Academy Museum Finds Good Intentions in Messy Film History 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z

But it is also a visual essay in autobiography and, as such, a modest, rigorous and moving work of art. Movie Review: ‘5 Broken Cameras’ Shows Life in One Palestinian Village 2012-05-29T22:04:37Z

For now, this remains a city of modest pleasures, of malls and night markets. T Magazine: Beyond the Melting Pot 2011-05-16T19:45:36Z

Though modest in scale, the show is one of the fall’s hottest thanks to its stars, Aubrey Plaza and Christopher Abbott. ‘Danny and the Deep Blue Sea’ Review: Aubrey Plaza Steps Into the Ring 2023-11-14T05:00:00Z

Long-term observational studies of heart disease, cancers or death and controlled trials of risk factors like blood cholesterol, glucose and inflammation suggest that modest intake of unprocessed red meat is relatively neutral for health. Should you avoid meat for good health? How to slice off the facts from the fiction 2019-12-25T05:00:00Z

But coming upon this photo at the Grolier Club, as part of a modest but potent exhibition, “The Power of Words and Images in a World at War,” is startling. A World War II Exhibition at the Grolier Club 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z

Twenty years ago, descendants of American Indian farming families set about restoring colonial mission chapels, such as the modest yet intimate Mission Church of San Rafael, with its adobe exterior and graceful stained-glass windows. The Mora River Valley Faces a New Battle 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z

While the foundation has had modest galleries, this will be its first serious presence in Milan. The Prada Foundation’s New Arts Complex in Milan 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z

For most of the ensuing century and a half, the phrase maintained a modest profile, always present but far from omnipresent; you might say it just burbled along. The Rabbit-Hole Rabbit Hole 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z

Sifnos, though, isn’t known to Greeks for just his food — the island is full of good restaurants, and even the most modest places do well by you. On a Small Greek Isle, Drawing to Discover and Remember 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z

She was modest about what she chose to take on; some reference to the McQueen craft and drama was necessary, but her choices reflected a gradual transition. Fashion Review: The Stage Is Big, and Lagerfeld Fills It 2010-10-05T22:56:00Z

Rick Stattler, the specialist on the sale, said Mr. Holzer’s collection was modest in monetary value, but remarkable in its historical and personal significance. A Trove of Lincoln Artifacts Heads to Auction 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z

That leaves “The Closer” to assume its modest but undeniable place in cable television history. A Series Romance Comes Full Circle 2012-08-10T17:09:14Z

My hopes, for what happens next, are marginal and modest. Postscript: Mike Nichols (1931-2014) 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z

The modest lobby leads to the Trade Room, a huge common room with a soaring ceiling, big arched windows, pink Tennessee granite, original brass hardware, low-slung modern sofas and a long bar. The Noelle Hotel Is a New Nashville Star 2018-09-08T04:00:00Z

For something so consistently cutting-edge it is, like Carter himself, unexpectedly modest and democratic. Eilliott Carter: music of storms and stillness 2013-06-07T08:00:27Z

Fresh from my modest success with Guitar Hero, six months shy of my 39th birthday, I decided that now was the time. Guitar Zero: psychologist Gary Marcus says science proves it's never to late to learn music 2012-06-05T15:11:01Z

“The Gates” transformed the topography of Central Park, along with its rhythm; Jazz & Colors was a more modest undertaking, designed to mesh peaceably with the park’s regular human ecology. Music Review: 30 Bands Perform in Jazz & Colors at Central Park 2012-11-11T22:52:39Z

Although The Evil Dead was only a modest box-office hit, we released the video uncut, triggering a Krakatoa of outrage from both the cinemas and censors. Putting the F-word in BBFC 2010-09-30T21:30:00Z

These days, it’s not uncommon for women with modest busts to flaunt what little they’ve got with a deep V-neck cut or a halter top. For the A-Cup Crowd, Minimal Assets Are a Plus 2010-09-01T22:30:00Z

Of these nearly 700 were successful, some with a dramatic increase, most with a modest cut. Arts Council rejects: where did we go wrong? 2011-04-05T14:09:44Z

His face spattered with brown freckles, his manner is polite, considered and encumbered by a modest Englishness. Feels like Devon 2011-04-01T23:01:00Z

The main frustration is that given the immensity of its subject, the exhibition is too modest in size — about 4,400 square feet. Exhibition Review: ‘Genome: Unlocking Life’s Code,’ at the Smithsonian 2013-08-29T21:30:18Z

Income inequality, moreover, had declined since the 1930s and was historically modest as of 1965 for a variety of reasons. Everything you know about the 1960s is wrong 2012-11-24T14:00:00Z

But when a Facebook call for volunteers mushroomed into a social media free-for-all, the event’s organizers watched, astounded, as their initially modest plans took on a life of their own. Review: In ‘Batkid Begins’, a Boy’s Simple Wish Whips Up Frenzied Adulation 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z

In these seemingly modest buildings, an ambitious experiment in sustainability is going on, bowl by bowl of harvested caviar. How to make caviar sustainable 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z

He was a remarkably modest man, a physically large and powerful presence with the build of a bespectacled wrestler, sometimes wearing his hair in a ponytail and with a cockney growl of a voice. Jim Goddard 2013-06-27T14:51:28Z

While "Gilded Age" has, so far, not explored the inner lives of the servants as much as its older sibling "Downton" did, the ladies maids and housekeepers also sport modest bumps below their uniform black. The best character on "The Gilded Age" is the bustle, adding an extra party to the back 2022-02-23T05:00:00Z

His installation works center on one or two pieces of old furniture — a small dressing table, for instance — and can suggest a corner of someone’s modest past. 4 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2021-01-27T05:00:00Z

When Bob Bookman, the agent at the Creative Artists Agency negotiating the sale of the film rights, asked Mr. Evans what he wanted, Mr. Evans proposed a modest $50,000. Nicholas Evans, Author of ‘The Horse Whisperer,’ Dies at 72 2022-08-15T04:00:00Z

As it says on the poster, they are "back for war", ie making a warlike reappearance for more of the same: this sets the keynote of rather modest wit and wordplay. The Expendables 2 – review 2012-08-16T14:29:00Z

The weekend’s other new opener, “Dog” found a modest audience too. Tom Holland’s latest adventure ‘Uncharted’ tops box office 2022-02-20T05:00:00Z

Granted, the viewership for these shows is modest next to the size of the audiences for most broadcast series or mammoth cable hits such as “The Walking Dead.” One show at a time: Keeping TV culturally inclusive is crucial to winning the battles ahead 2016-12-04T05:00:00Z

I ask hesitantly as my husband pulls up in front of a modest door on the Main Street side of Richmond’s Hotel Jefferson. Richmond’s Jefferson Hotel, return of a grandiose grand dame

The dozen or so varieties on tap at the Fred Meyer was modest compared to the 54 types available at a local Shell gas station. Find a blizzard of winter activities in Bend, Oregon 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z

Hussey represented that generational change, though her autobiography is too modest to say it. Olivia Hussey, star of Zeffirelli’s Romeo and Juliet: 'I was wild' 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z

The pleasures of modest wines are immense and repeatable - and what wine drinking is all about to me - and it helps with Dolcetto that the wines are so delicious. The Profound Modesty of Good Dolcetto 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z

But would a man of Joe's financial worth be living in such a modest home? Review: A thoughtful, thought-provoking 'All My Sons' at Intiman 2011-03-28T16:52:06Z

Her father worked in the Postal and Telegraph service, and the family's circumstances were modest. Poem of the week: Ku Li by Robin Hyde 2011-02-28T12:55:00Z

In August 2016, Douglas Mcgowan arrived at a modest brick house near central Nashville with a contract and the faint hope of a face-to-face meeting with the home’s mysterious occupant. Jackie Shane, a Transgender Soul Pioneer, Re-emerges After Four Decades 2017-10-15T04:00:00Z

Phillips says to withhold a tip would remove a significant part of an employee’s modest salary. Perspective | Are consumers tired of gratuitous gratuities? 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z

Some of the biggest companies, including Hachette and Penguin Random House, have reported results that are relatively modest this year, compared with 2021. A Big Publishing Merger Was Blocked, but Brought the Industry Little Clarity 2022-11-01T04:00:00Z

In person, he’s boyish, modest and — despite all the attention he’s been getting lately for his appearances on the Netflix revival of “Arrested Development” — a little shy. Making a Pit Stop in Formula One With ‘Rush’ 2013-08-28T12:16:47Z

The Wagner benefited from a natural, seductive flow and, once your ears became acclimated to the modest amplification, a plush shapely string sound. Music Review: Knights in Naumburg Orchestral Concert at Central Park 2012-07-11T22:01:58Z

Still, the modest charms of “Lucky Guy” ultimately prove difficult to resist, thanks almost entirely to the supremely immodest duo at its spangled center. | 'Lucky Guy': When ?Boy Meets Girl? Plays Second Fiddle 2011-05-20T02:01:04Z

Nike made its first foray into modest athletic gear two years ago, when it introduced its thirty-five-dollar Pro Hijab, a stretchy, breathable head covering with a firm seal around the face. Nike Takes the Plunge Into Modest Swimwear 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z

And some of Burkeman’s modest suggestions about how to prioritize things, without simply adding stress about prioritizing things to life, seem well worth trying. Life Is Short. What Are You Going to Do About That? 2021-08-11T04:00:00Z

Some of the small plates prove modest pleasures, such as a tuna seviche with creamy avocado and coconut milk, and pinto beans braised in beer and topped with white cheese. Come thirsty, not hungry, to Mike Isabella’s Pepita Canteen 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z

There are a number of modest guesthouses in town. Treehouses on top of the world: Zip-lining to lodgings in Laos 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z

The production grossed a little more than $798,000 last week, slightly better than two other musicals, “Billy Elliot” and “Sister Act,” which have also made modest gains after a shaky summer. ArtsBeat Blog: New 'Follies' Shows Broadway Earning Potential 2011-09-26T20:18:03Z

“My parents were in a very modest situation,” Wu said. Boston’s Mayor Trades City Hall for Symphony Hall 2023-05-09T04:00:00Z

As a guide, he's modest, likeable and not afraid to admit that he's often wrong. How to Love Wine by Eric Asimov – review 2012-11-22T08:00:02Z

Will Seattle-area funders and individual patrons step forward to offer similarly generous backing here, in addition to the modest literary grants available now? Move over, coffee: It's playwrights' day in the sun in Seattle 2012-09-05T22:38:04Z

For the rest of the program, Valitutto offered unusually and not unwelcome modest applications of the organ in works written since Feldman's piece. The proof is in: The pipe organ is still the king of instruments 2016-04-12T04:00:00Z

My advice: Peruse the “Current: LA” website, pick two or three things that seem promising and keep expectations modest. 'Current: LA' art biennial: Water may be the theme, but gas is what you'll need to see it all 2016-07-23T04:00:00Z

The company operated on a shoestring budget, with modest production values and low ticket prices. Open Circle Theater carved its own niche 2011-10-05T19:12:04Z

There’s some joy, but not a lot, on this modest but sharp album, which continues the argument for Ms. Evans as an unjustly underappreciated country singer who’s becoming more assured as she gets older. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2011-03-07T23:58:25Z

So profoundly did New Labour internalise Gould's lesson that it must accept the principles of the Thatcher era that, even where it attempted modest redistribution from rich to poor, it kept quiet about it. Philip Gould: An Unfinished Life, edited by Dennis Kavanagh - review 2012-09-26T07:30:04Z

Mr. Vance seemed modest, self-effacing and a bit of a fish out of water among guests drawn from the worlds of publishing and journalism, a half-dozen attendees later recalled. How Hollywood and the Media Fueled the Political Rise of J.D. Vance 2022-05-15T04:00:00Z

The anemic $6.75 million that Crowe's movie earned in its first weekend — which failed to meet the industry's very modest predictions — validated a sad suspicion: this macho Australian actor is not a movie star. Box Office: A Hallowed Weekend for Harry Potter, Hell for Russell Crowe 2010-11-21T06:15:00Z

“For a modest amount, they are getting a lot,” Jock Reynolds, the director of the Yale University Art Gallery, said. The Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford Puts Final Touches on a Comeback 2015-08-30T04:00:00Z

Compare it to the great classic musicals, even the modest ones that ran a season had more integrity and wit. Review: Does ‘Cats’ Have Nine Lives on Broadway? Two, Certainly 2016-07-31T04:00:00Z

There were maybe half a dozen interstitial parts involving Super 8-like, grainy-color videos, or dancers moving in various styles to an abstracted bit of melody, or modest light shows. Music Review: Beyoncé’s Return to Stage Is a Return to Familiar Form 2012-05-26T08:21:01Z

The father lives on in the "modest no-frills style", and the book is remarkable as a strong tribute paid by a strong son to a strong father. Andre Gerard's top 10 father memoirs 2013-06-12T15:11:54Z

Where there used to be a modest amount of mayo, there’s now a whole lot of Greek yogurt. Your new favorite potato salad, thanks to one ingredient 2019-05-25T04:00:00Z

A modest guesthouse between the town and the airport, with a lovely breakfast served in the garden. Journey to an Ethiopian volcano located in one of the hottest places on Earth 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z

The latter gives Washington State-based authors two-year Rep residencies with a modest stipend, staged readings and other resources attached. Move over, coffee: It's playwrights' day in the sun in Seattle 2012-09-05T22:38:04Z

The three-character play, here directed with care by Mr. Fugard himself, takes place in 1950, in a modest tea shop in the town of Port Elizabeth. Review: ‘“Master Harold” … and the Boys,’ a Searing Indictment of Racism 2016-11-07T05:00:00Z

Despite the area’s growing recognition as a wine region, its lodging options included just a few bed-and-breakfasts and modest hotels. Check In,Check Out: Hotel Review: Allison Inn & Spa in Newberg, Ore. 2010-10-15T19:26:00Z

"It's not that I wouldn't, it's that I couldn't," he says, modest to the end. Alain Resnais: vive la diff?rence 2010-06-22T21:00:00Z

Newcastle city council has not made the case for the comparatively modest arts spending to be wiped out completely in the context of a revenue budget of over a quarter of a billion pounds. Letters: The right response to Newcastle's arts cuts 2012-12-18T21:00:06Z

The corollary of the knee-jerk reflexes triggered by names, history and size is that marvelous pictures can go for modest prices. Special Report: The New Art Season: Art Anchored in History Will Soar This Season 2011-09-07T10:30:06Z

I’ve long admired the modest one he designed for Zurich years ago, which accomplished a lot with relatively little. Santiago Calatrava’s Transit Hub Is a Soaring Symbol of a Boondoggle 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z

Fortune comes knocking, a few answer the call, the rest remain local and proud of their modest successes. 'Wheedle's Groove' documentary captures the soul of Seattle 2010-09-02T20:06:00Z

She loves her two houses in Vienna and New York, "I have to be more modest with my shopping now; we are decorating both my houses – and that's expensive." Anna Netrebko: 'I can make Manon ... bad' 2010-06-17T21:10:00Z

She had modest training as an actress, but her stunning looks led to a modeling career and an appearance on the cover of Harper’s Bazaar in March 1943. Lauren Bacall dies at 89; iconic film legend known as ‘The Look’

The wines might be diametrically opposed, a profound, celebratory Champagne and an excellent but modest, dry Lambrusco. What Makes a Wine Great? It’s Not Just Old and Complex. 2021-11-29T05:00:00Z

For this reason, girls have a responsibility to wear modest clothing that doesn’t invite lustful thoughts.” Science or sex: Which does the right hate more? 2012-06-24T00:00:00Z

A handful of competitors found room to express themselves within that framework, mostly in modest terms. Critic’s Notebook: Jamison Ross Wins Thelonious Monk Contest 2012-09-24T22:05:15Z

This movie might itself make a modest contribution to rewriting the history of white South Africa. Searching for Sugar Man – review 2012-07-26T14:29:01Z

Instead what matters here is the delicacy with which Hansen-Love puts those events into play with modest moments, how she reveals the sublime in the in-between spaces of ordinary existence. ‘One Fine Morning’ Review: The Moments That Make Up a Rich Life 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z

Most storytellers offer modest tales of 5 to 10 minutes that pivot on a personal moment. Critic?s Notebook: Advancing a New Form of Comedy: Storytelling 2012-04-04T22:52:28Z

“A rule against small homes prevents people with relatively modest incomes from making trade-offs that would allow them to live in areas that the commute or amenities makes desirable,” wrote Matthew Yglesias in Slate. New York only wants investment bankers 2012-07-28T16:00:00Z

But those tapped into today’s vibrant and multilayered battle rap ecosystem know that this modest gym is far more than a setting where wannabe rappers roast each other. The Fierce, Flourishing World of Battle Rap 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z

There should be no shame in having one's dreams dashed in an economic system that makes even modest hopes for a better life unobtainable so that a handful can live out their wildest fantasies. "The Sandman" and the American Dream: Donald Trump is the Corinthian 2022-08-28T04:00:00Z

Bob, at 51, is a legal aid lawyer with a more modest sense of himself. Review: Strout's new novel a Maine family saga 2013-03-25T18:00:10Z

It is a small group — just 25 people — and a modest sale, one of scores listed weekly on Web sites like estatesales.net. The Gimlet Eye: Flea Market Vendors Take Stock in Things of Others 2010-05-12T22:10:00Z

The band also released additional seats at a modest $85 on its official website this week, the only price point that quickly sold out for the May 3 concert. Rolling Stones rock packed house after price cuts in LA 2013-05-04T10:22:37Z

As a relatively modest horror thriller, “A Quiet Place” follows the playbook of last year’s “Get Out,” which yielded similarly impressive results. Perspective | The ‘Solo’ slump is a reminder that voice and vision is what studios should savor 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z

The government's proposal, she said, is quite reasonable and even modest. US embassy cables: US embassy in Madrid asks Spain to find creative solutions to Nazi looted art problem 2010-12-08T23:00:00Z

The film opened this weekend in theaters with a modest $11.4 million box office tally and is streaming on HBO Max through July 11. Q&A: Jimmy Smits figured out he can carry a tune, and more 2021-06-14T04:00:00Z

“In absolute terms, it’s a modest increase but in relative terms, it’s nearly doubled,” Jena says. This pregnancy-related condition kills half a million babies, but isn’t getting much funding 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z

And when he said that he was concerned about Jonathan Swift’s famed modest proposal to eat Irish babies, that character was brilliantly whipped up when he suggested we ought to “#CancelSwift.” Why should’t Colbert joke about race? 2014-04-01T14:05:00Z

It also includes a first-year wage freeze and modest increases in the second and third years. Kennedy Center stagehands reach agreement with the performing arts venue, sparing ‘Hadestown’ from cancellation 2021-10-09T04:00:00Z

They live together for a brief time, like father and daughter; she tidies their modest hotel suite, he secretly works extra jobs to buy her presents. 'The Illusionist': Hats off to this magician's tale and tribute to Jacques Tati 2011-01-27T22:37:12Z

It uses electrical energy to deliver heat, offering modest nonsurgical lifting through tissue tightening and collagen remodeling. Is Electricity the Secret to Great Skin? 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z

What started out losing £30,000 now gets "a modest return". The surprise success of NT Live 2013-06-09T19:30:01Z

Some were simple and modest and reflected the original rationale for leftovers, which was economical. What to do with those Thanksgiving leftovers? Look to the French 2019-11-29T05:00:00Z

Under PLR, writers receive a modest payment when their work is accessed by library users. Public Lending Right inquiry was rigged from the start 2012-07-19T13:44:02Z

Slim and bald, with slightly protuberant ears that are somehow endearing, this modest stranger addresses us with the awkward air of someone itching with discomfort at public speaking. Theater Review: ?Title and Deed,? by Will Eno, With Conor Lovett 2012-05-21T02:00:00Z

The modest increase in viewership at a moment where people are fleeing broadcast television qualifies as a win these days. Tony Awards Viewership Increases to 4.3 Million 2023-06-12T04:00:00Z

You would have thought the titles were tribute enough, but at least his statue is modest and traditional. We have the cenotaph: we don't need more memorials 2010-07-12T07:00:00Z

With this in mind, may I make a modest request of LACO? Beethoven, politics and a Ninth Symphony for all 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z

Could those novelists have been brave enough to tell such a big story in so few, modest pages? Overlooked classics of American literature: Mrs Bridge by Evan S Connell 2012-10-02T13:41:50Z

We acknowledged that we made a modest profit now and again. A fond farewell to secondhand bookshops 2011-03-09T13:20:55Z

Their donations so far, while modest in terms of their overall net worth, are significant because of their stated intention to give most of their wealth away during their lifetimes. A Carlyle group co-founder steps out of the philanthropic shadows

Like much of Dean's art, Prisoner Pair broaches vast topics – nature, history, decay and the seductions of nostalgia – with apparently modest means: the simple passage of light across the surfaces of things. Tacita Dean at the Common Guild - review 2011-01-01T00:05:49Z

In recent decades, the guitar at times served the songs almost to a fault, as if Thompson were too modest for his own good. Album review: Richard Thompson, 'Electric' 2013-02-05T05:34:00Z

But the remake already is headed toward a solid profit after an opening weekend that roughly matched its modest production budget of just over $30 million. New "Nightmare" scares up $32.2M to open on top 2010-05-03T12:10:00Z

And that there were few defectors for this modest Modernist challenge after intermission suggests that Mr. Gilbert has developed a certain trust with Philharmonic audiences. Review: The Philharmonic Revisits an Early Triumph of Its Director 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z

They had begun writing their own material, but suffered a string of flops before finally achieving a modest hit with Wine and Women. Robin Gibb obituary 2012-05-20T22:54:00Z

And though “A Quiet Passion” is small — modest in scope, inward rather than expansive, precise in word and gesture — it contains multitudes. Review: ‘A Quiet Passion’ Poetically Captures Emily Dickinson 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z

A gardener’s resolutions, as the new year begins, are modest ones. Resolve to grow a better rosemary plant. Your dinner guests will thank you. 2017-01-03T05:00:00Z

“If the vibrato is pronounced, and the trill is modest,” Mr. Crutchfield pointed out, “there isn’t enough contrast.” Music: Will Crutchfield, Preaching the Gospel of Bel Canto 2010-07-03T17:17:00Z

Published last year by a small children’s publisher, Candlewick Press, it drew glowing reviews, but sales were modest. Asked to Delete References to Racism From Her Book, an Author Refused 2023-05-06T04:00:00Z

What visitors will see is a home that was typical for families of modest means during that era: small rooms, low ceilings, scaled-down furniture and very little storage space. Patsy Cline's restored house opening in Va 2011-07-26T19:35:13Z

“It’s like we can’t be cocky. We are supposed to be modest.” Why Iceland is the best place in the world to be a woman 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z

“About the best and dirtiest stories I’ve ever heard — dumpy, absurd body, hair combed by a salad spoon, brown-button Welsh eyes always moving suspiciously or fixing on the most modest person in the room.” A Dylan Thomas Centennial in New York 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z

Other less specifically race-related sequences feature two children seated at a modest apartment’s kitchen table, who drift off while listening to a Bakelite radio, a staple of domestic life. Garrett Bradley Reminds Us That Black Joy Always Existed 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z

Some of those attendees will be wearing enough pearls around their necks to pay off a modest mortgage. Seattle Art Fair 2018: robots, puppets and million-dollar paintings part of this year’s extravaganza 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z

I inherited the BRCA1 gene mutation, which means that one day – if unchecked – those two modest little breasts are bound to turn on me. Don’t touch my breasts, hon 2012-10-08T01:00:00Z

There is also little impact of attending an exam school on SAT reading and writing scores, and, at best, a modest positive impact on SAT math scores.” ArtsBeat Blog: Thinking Cap: Angst Before High School 2011-08-16T14:33:25Z

Not only are rockets packed with explosive fuel, they are also complex machines made up of thousands of moving parts that can fail spectacularly over even a modest hiccup. If planes failed like space shuttles, 272 would crash daily 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z

Compared with the reality show trope of hapless youth struggling with modest setbacks, it's a refreshing look at how well twentysomethings muck in when livelihoods depend on it. TV highlights 11/01/2013 2013-01-11T13:08:15Z

A modest amount of oil is used instead of butter, and that means fewer calories and minimal saturated fat. It’s a quick bread to some. For me, it’s cake. 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z

In his studio in Long Island City, Queens, a modest space up a narrow flight of stairs, Mr. Olujimi showed some work in progress, products of the pandemic year. In 177 Portraits, an Artist’s Homage to His Bed-Stuy Muse 2021-01-08T05:00:00Z

"This modest, austere story seemed to lend itself to being made in black and white," he added. Payne back on the road with 'Nebraska' at Cannes 2013-05-23T17:02:09Z

Most are modest in spirit and unprepossessing in appearance. Life at Caleta 111 Revolves Around Limes and Tiger’s Milk 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z

In the end, many of the trends discussed above will merely lead to modest growth. The future of “golf” may not be on the links 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z

Particularly because his initial aim was decidedly more modest: to open a crepe shop. As a teenage refugee, he was the family cook. Now, he’s a lauded chef. 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z

It was time for a day and night of indulgence — or at least modest indulgence — and no mountain village in France seemed better equipped to furnish it. The French Alps Sans Skis 2011-02-25T21:55:11Z

“It meant nothing to me at the time,” he says, sitting in his decidedly modest office. Guys aren’t usually into needlepoint, but this company sells them on it 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z

I don’t wish to overpraise it: it has soft spots; it frequently deals with material covered in better books; you will not confuse the author’s modest prose with Nabokov’s. Books of The Times: ‘Killer on the Road’ by Ginger Strand 2012-09-04T12:00:00Z

That is one goal of the Association for Cultural Equity, which oversees Global Jukebox and other Lomax-related initiatives from modest offices at Hunter College in Manhattan, with a budget that was $250,000 last year. ?The Alan Lomax Collection From the American Folklife Center? 2012-01-31T00:30:23Z

“First Essay,” on first acquaintance, at least, seems a mild and modest work, hardly the stuff of grand designs. With remarkable concert at Soka, the young Calidore String Quartet declares: Take note 2016-11-07T05:00:00Z

O’Neill’s characters float through a world whose modest pleasures are theoretically attainable but never, in practice, tangible. Reliably Unreliable Men, Unlikely to Improve Their Lot 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z

"It will be a modest mayorship and a modest office, because this city is modest," Biedron was quoted as saying by the state news agency, PAP. Poland elects first openly gay mayor 2014-12-01T05:00:00Z

Always thrifty and resourceful, Marker was adept at using modest cinematic means to pursue visionary ends. ‘Level Five,’ Directed by Chris Marker, at BAM Rose Cinemas 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z

As royal consort, he eventually became popular for his quiet, modest and honest nature. The Dutch monarchy _ some facts and quirks 2013-01-29T22:46:04Z

A modest success that ran for about eight months, it received respectful and enthusiastic reviews, but came and went quickly when it was revived in 1972. | ?Lost in the Stars?: Pursuing a Prodigal Son, Who?s Strayed to the City 2011-02-04T23:55:30Z

In keeping with sturdy and modest structural coastal aesthetics and in response to the local climate, the home features wide roof overhangs, simple details, and comfortable porches to catch refreshing breezes. Timeless Coastal Charm 2010-03-31T15:04:00Z

There are modest pleasures to be found in Zilberman’s observations about ego and the rules of attraction. A Late Quartet: Harmonic Divergence Starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Christopher Walken and Catherine Keener 2012-11-01T16:04:18Z

Mike Flaherty, the New Jersey burgher Mr. Giamatti plays in “Win Win,” Tom McCarthy’s funny and warmhearted new film, is cut from more modest cloth. | 'Win Win': Riding the Wave of Life?s Indignities 2011-03-17T23:03:24Z

“Look, where else does a lower-middle-class kid with a modest education and not superhuman skills grow up to be me?” The Slow-Burning Success of Disney’s Bob Iger 2019-09-22T04:00:00Z

The Martian” is a well-decorated film that shows off a design consistent with function rather than with pleasure; its modest but meticulous plausibility hits an intellectual sweet spot. What's Missing from “The Martian” 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z

Licks was a modest success, but probably ahead of its time. Art of the Rolling Stones: Behind That Zipper and That Tongue 2015-06-07T04:00:00Z

Now, I’m trying to embrace every opportunity, modest as they may be, to get well and truly bored. Quarantine is perfect for discovering the beauty and power of boredom 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z

It's encouraging to see industry revenues stabilise and even show modest growth in 2009. UK recorded music sales rise for first time in six years 2010-04-26T13:58:00Z

Unfortunately, this revival — rather like the intellectual undergraduates portrayed onstage— never fulfills even its modest promise. Theater Review: Simon Gray’s ‘Common Pursuit,’ by Roundabout Theater Company 2012-05-25T02:01:01Z

Many are average students with modest goals for college. Perspective | My dilemma as a college essay coach: How to walk the fine line between helping and cheating 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z

He describes his childhood as one of “huge privilege,” but he’s clearly more comfortable in modest, even humbled corners of the world. Atticus Lish’s Long Route to 'Preparation for the Next Life' 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z

It’s tiny – just three rooms – and breathtakingly modest. Searching for signs of the Soviets in St Petersburg 2016-10-22T04:00:00Z

I saw my life as if it were spread before me: the strict conventions of my professional job, the modest paycheck that denied me the flirty dresses I craved. From good girl to prostitute: My path from ultra-Orthodox Judaism to Craigslist sex ad 2014-02-03T01:00:00Z

It’s a modest introduction, but a calculated one. Critic’s Notebook: Proven in Britain, Two Comics Try to Take New York 2013-06-17T21:44:00Z

Book Bindery, along the Ship Canal, is a Canlis alternative for more modest budgets. Q&A with food writer Nancy Leson and restaurant critic Providence Cicero 2011-08-10T12:58:31Z

Clusters of old-school hawker stalls served modest fare like duck rice and won ton noodles. Heads Up: In Singapore, a Stylish Update 2012-10-05T15:51:19Z

Bloom was dealing with massively oversold flights due to extenuating circumstances, but most oversell situations are far more modest, usually requiring only one to four volunteers to get the flight squared away. How to make money on oversold flights 2017-04-22T04:00:00Z

Like many selections, it was chosen more for its unique examination of the American experience than its commercial success, which was modest. N.W.A., Judy Garland, Vin Scully, David Bowie, Talking Heads — enshrined forever by Library of Congress 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z

The gallery has deep purple walls, and the show is relatively modest — a scholarly study of a specific period, anchored by MoMA’s recent acquisition of a group of 42 of her works on paper. 18 Art Exhibitions to View in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z

Masks may recall killers and robbers, or even a night of more modest high jinks, like Halloween. Horror Masks Are Never Just About the Monster 2020-10-23T04:00:00Z

While Cartier is now a fixture in every major city, a synonym for international panache, its origins were modest. Can’t Afford a Shopping Spree at Cartier? This Book Is the Next Best Thing 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z

As a hybrid, it wasn't the worst gas guzzler, but fuel costs — in addition to a hefty 15% state self-employment tax — ate a chunk of my already modest earnings. I got hooked on Uber Eats. Not as a customer — as a delivery driver 2022-09-10T04:00:00Z

I lingered by the table for several minutes, trying to imagine plying the trade of novelist, and plying it at Austen’s heights, on this modest surface. Seeking Inspiration in Jane Austen’s World 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z

Improbable’s productions tend to be built from everyday stuff, but “Tao of Glass” is even more modest than most. An ‘Obsession’ With Philip Glass Inspires a Director’s Memory Play 2023-03-28T04:00:00Z

Plus she has one big production number and a more modest vocal solo that should keep diva devotees sighing contentedly. 'Burlesque': Christina Aquilera, Cher keep it frisky if not fresh 2010-11-23T21:55:00Z

Finally, they found it, a modest shrine to the building’s previous life as one of the most famous high schools in American film: a handful of generic artifacts in an old trophy case. The Teen Streets of John Hughes’s Chicago 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z

Her patrons are an odd assortment of actors, well-heeled matrons, hedge-fund managers and scores of more modest believers in Ms. Longshore’s gospel. Ashley Longshore Is Fashion’s Latest Art Darling 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z

On this album the sonic experimentation is a little more modest than on her previous two, “Saltbreakers” and “Year of Meteors,” which were released on Nonesuch. 2010-01-10T23:10:00Z

This week, Nike is unveiling its own line of modest swimwear. Nike Takes the Plunge Into Modest Swimwear 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z

Aurelius was the most modest of emperors and the most forgiving. Bringing Down a Media Empire 2018-02-27T05:00:00Z

A young woman of modest means falls for an older man of wealth. 'Sound of Music,' 'Pretty Woman' heroines so similar, yet so different 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z

It was a modest endeavor, and he sold it in 1985 to what is now Time Warner. An Environmentalist?s Latest Laundry List 2011-02-23T22:32:55Z

A colorful children’s playground had been installed in one corner; in another was a modest stage area topped with a shade structure. Building Type: Long road to the Arts District's first park 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z

The production is not the salvation of the art, either — the modest subtitle is appropriate — yet it is far from ridiculous. ‘ETM: The Initial Approach,’ Debuts at Jacob’s Pillow 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z

Their facades are modest, often lacking formal design elements. Photographer captures L.A.'s spiritual side in small-church series 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z

The Rodham home is more modest, and in a more working-class neighborhood, than the Biden home in leafy Green Ridge, blocks from historic mansions. Scranton became shorthand for the past. Its reality is far more complicated. 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z

I have been harsh on this modest musical, efficiently if facelessly directed by Bill Berry, so I should underscore that Mr. Levi and Ms. Rodriguez are both appealing performers. Theater Review: ‘First Date,’ a Musical, Opens on Broadway 2013-08-09T02:00:09Z

“I won’t even be a little modest about that. I’ve been a fan of the Oscars telecast since I was a kid — I used to memorize Billy Crystal’s musical monologues.” Lin-Manuel Miranda, Timberlake, Sting get Oscar music nods 2017-01-24T05:00:00Z

Yet Norman Wisdom remained that most modest of British superstars, unpretentious, full of humility, despite a dizzying rise to international fame. Norman Wisdom - a life in clips 2010-10-04T22:55:00Z

Many gestures were modest, but in sum they revealed that the advent of the Trump presidency is no ordinary moment in American cultural life. With vigils, a film, a comic and plenty of marching: How the L.A. art world faced Trump's inauguration 2017-01-28T05:00:00Z

I sat down to talk with Conway, who has a modest, comfortable style. How long had it taken him to write his book? Galley Girl at Book Expo 2013: The First Night 2013-05-30T18:02:35Z

That vision is a far cry from the institution’s modest beginnings in 1897, as a teaching collection for Cooper Union college. AD Innovator: Caroline Baumann 2014-09-15T04:00:00Z

Equally important for assessing the market mood, deals on a modest level were concluded by the dozen. Maastricht Signals an Art Market on the Rebound 2010-03-19T15:25:00Z

In his farewell address — which was short, modest and polite — Mr. Wilmore said his mission had been to “see the world in a way that might not make everybody comfortable.” Larry Wilmore’s Characteristically Low-Key Farewell 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z

Cuban wrote on Sept. 24 after receiving an email informing him that his Season 5 salary would be $30,000 per episode, with modest increases in following years. Sony hack: Mark Cuban threatened to leave 'Shark Tank' in salary tiff 2014-12-13T05:00:00Z

The festival continues to thrive in its modest six-day format and regularly attracts a faithful following. This week's new live music 2010-08-20T23:06:00Z

And, indeed, there seems to be a modest increase in time spent exercising when people retire, from 16 minutes among those age 55 to 64 to 19 minutes for seniors age 65 to 74. 12 Ways Retirees Spend Their Newfound Free Time 2016-08-15T04:00:00Z

The budget also would rely on declaring a relatively modest surplus in the city’s special taxing districts, the sources said. City budget preview: fee increases, no tax hikes 2011-10-11T17:56:00Z

The setting: The kitchen takes up every inch of this modest space. Kedai Makan: Capitol Hill’s trendy, tasty Malaysian takeout 2013-03-21T20:40:47Z

Gifts we send are not acknowledged, and he's said they put them in consignment shops, so we just send modest checks, which they cash. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Is it just us, or are they pushing us away? Uh-oh, it could be both! 2020-12-16T05:00:00Z

The whistle-blower in “Official Secrets” has only one memo to print out, a modest if mighty task that here looks like, well, a woman anxiously using an office printer in bad lighting. ‘Official Secrets’ Review: Betraying Her Government for Her Country 2019-08-28T04:00:00Z

However, Kick-Ass and Matt Damon war film Green Zone were both hugely popular among the downloading public, while their box office figures were relatively modest. Avatar is 'most pirated of 2010' 2010-12-22T09:06:42Z

The only modest diversion is the belated appearance of Banderas as a desperately chatty jack of all dark trades. REVIEW: Stallone Reassembles the Old, Old Gang for The Expendables 3 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z

The majority of that trip, at least as it survives in my memory, was spent in my aunt Emily’s front room, in her modest row house on the Shankill Road. Witnessing the Moon Landing in Ireland, at the Start of the Troubles 2019-07-20T04:00:00Z

And it wasn't the delicacy and modest restraint of the press that was complained of by Hugh Grant et al. Is it OK to sell love letters? 2012-12-15T18:04:01Z

For more modest gifts, ask your retailer to recommend a grower champagne, one produced by small farmers rather than by the large champagne houses. What to give, and not give, to wine lovers on your list 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z

As her male counterpart, Arcane, the countertenor Robin Blaze offered only modest vocal resources but poured those into expressively rendered arias. Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra in ‘Teseo,’ at Mostly Mozart 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z

Consider just the opening tableau: the kitchen and living room of a modest California home, looking as if squatters had been running amok for a good few years. Review: ‘Hir’ Sorts Through a Family in Transition 2015-11-08T05:00:00Z

It’s grand in sound and personnel, with 15 participants on its new album, “Hug of Thunder”; it’s modest in constructing its music collectively, even though it’s packed with individualistic songwriters. Broken Social Scene Pits Creativity Against Collapse on ‘Hug of Thunder’ 2017-07-05T04:00:00Z

But the photographs of a modest but extremely talented German insurance claims adjuster silenced us all. Scuba Diving in Thailand: A Balancing Act 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z

Framed in their modest tasting room is the original receipt for the 1973 grapes. The wine tasting that shocked the world — and forever changed what we drink 2016-05-07T04:00:00Z

In 1975, a small imprint agreed to a modest run of about four thousand copies. The Book That Exposed the Cynical Politics of Donald Duck 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z

This time, it is a more modest affair – a few scenes made for an internet site. How the internet killed porn 2012-06-05T19:00:01Z

Ms. Richardson, despite her modest stage manners, is an enchantress with wonderful delicacy, while Ms. Zhang brings a marvelous fullness to her choreography. Review: British and American Ballets Showcase Youthful Blend of Style and Skill 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z

What’s more, a similar limited run of “Hair” last summer generated only modest ticket sales. ‘Fela!’ and ‘Bring It On’ Go to Broadway in Summer 2012-06-19T22:25:46Z

Stone's last film, "Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps," the sequel to his 1987 classic, "Wall Street," did modest business. Oliver Stone to be honored at Mumbai Film Fest 2010-10-28T09:22:00Z

Ms. Toogood wears brightly jungle chic with palm fronds attached; Mr. Riener begins dressed only in a loincloth, and later dons a more modest brown two-piece outfit. Rashaun Mitchell’s ‘Light Years,’ Surreal Yet Supple 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z

These two actors generate a chemistry that, even if it doesn't set the multiplex on fire, is endearingly modest. 'Life as We Know It': Changing lives ? and diapers 2010-10-07T19:37:00Z

Today, Naropa’s Allen Ginsberg Library remains as a modest homage, preserving many of the poet’s papers and films of his lectures on literature; a small black-and-white portrait hangs over the door. In Boulder, Where Inner Peace Meets Outer Beauty 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z

Even modest Cape Cods in Takoma Park succumbed to plump flowered sofas and draperies dripping with tassels. The reign of beige: In a political town, design stays neutral 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z

It is dark and dusty inside Lemmy's poky Los Angeles rent-controlled apartment, situated in a modest block close to Sunset Strip. Lemmy: The Movie ? Grace Dent's TV OD 2011-07-15T23:06:31Z

But it’s good to see Nesbo apply his talents to something more modest, but no less admirable, such as “Midnight Sun.” ‘Midnight Sun’: Jo Nesbo is back with a taut thriller set on his home turf 2016-02-10T05:00:00Z

Among the specialty cuts are a cowgirl rib-eye, a modest 12 ounces with bone; a filet mignon with truffle butter; and several types of Japanese Wagyu sold by the ounce. Le Grill de Joël Robuchon Becomes Le Club 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z

Several recent studies have linked PrEP with a modest rise in STIs. Truvada and the truth: is HIV prevention propelling the STI epidemic? 2018-10-21T04:00:00Z

Accommodation consists of modest bungalows and dorms in need of repair. Center of Attraction: The Green Heart of Tahiti 2011-11-17T06:15:00Z

The paper judged “the dresses to be modest and elegant, but criticized the Polish ready-to-wear industry for producing them only in gigantic sizes.” T Magazine: Comrade, That Suit Is So Chanel 2010-12-09T20:47:00Z

The modest exhibition there was put together a decade ago by China’s foremost scholar on Chinese Jews, Xu Xin, who told me the limited access to his display was “a very complicated issue.” Journeys: Kaifeng, China, and Traces of Its Jewish Community 2010-04-03T04:24:00Z

He quietly weaves his way through the promotional bustle in his relatively modest home, settling down outside on a quiet deck overlooking Mulholland Drive. For John Legend, love and social protest make for an 'interesting mix' 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z

Unlike some Dardennes heroes and heroines, Sandra and her family — and most of the families she visits — live in at least modest comfort. The Dardennes Explore Their Theme in ‘Two Days, One Night’ 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z

Second, the findings around weight were very modest. Can coffee help you avoid weight gain? Here’s what the science says 2023-10-16T04:00:00Z

The opera from 1832, a repertoire favorite, is of relatively modest dimensions to begin with. Seattle Opera’s ‘Elixir of Love’ beams with the joy of singing, even in virtual format 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z

The efficiently gaudy show doesn’t have a deep thought in its head but, in its bombastic way, it’s modest and true. Review: ‘Semiramide’ Returns to the Met, Unglamorous but Excellent 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z

Through the museum's modest exhibitions, Malpede is determined to keep stories like Dogon's and so many other Skid Row residents alive. Lowrider bikes as activist tools: General Dogon's rolling art works are part of Skid Row history 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z

After Australian singer Betty Who delighted a modest main stage crowd with sparkly dance-pop anthems, local rockers Great Grandpa echoed Frank’s sentiment introducing a song about consent. Capitol Hill Block Party rages on with #MeToo undertones 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z

If Hillary Clinton succeeds him, she is likely to provide a modest but welcome corrective. Playing it long 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z

Even as the museum’s reputation outgrew its size and modest budget, staff members remained devoted to serving their working-class neighborhood with community events, poetry readings, yoga classes and movie screenings. Underground Museum in Los Angeles Has Closed 2022-03-19T04:00:00Z

Three years ago, on its second weekend, Captain America: The First Avenger rose a modest 26% from Friday to Saturday, while the original Rio enjoyed a 69% leap on its first Saturday. Captain America Clips Rio 2‘s Wings 2014-04-13T20:09:45Z

When her brother, Claudio, is condemned to die for getting his girlfriend pregnant, Isabella comes to Angelo in her modest habit to plead for mercy. Review: In ‘Measure for Measure,’ Desperately Seeking Solutions in a Problem Play 2017-06-25T04:00:00Z

You will hear–and are probably already hearing–an awful lot about Girls for a show from an indie-film director that will probably get a modest cable-sized audience. Dead Tree Alert: Brave New Girls 2012-04-05T15:30:13Z

But over all, Mr. Som’s clothes were a modest, even mannish mishmash, some with bold horizontal stripes, others in bold flower prints, with PVC raincoats for the lazy flasher. Coach, Peter Som, Jason Wu and Creatures of the Wind, Fashion Week, Spring 2015 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z

He looked and sounded very ordinary, a modest man driven by simple righteousness. ‘Cesar Chavez’: a noble portrait of the civil-rights leader 2014-03-26T18:56:20Z

On Sunday, two police officers were stationed to block traffic on the street where Paterno's modest ranch home stands next to a local park. Joe Paterno dies of lung cancer; colleagues say heartbreak, turmoil may have played role 2012-01-23T10:48:00Z

But many of the show’s most enchanting works are far more modest. Inspiration Made Concrete in ‘Self-Taught Genius’ Exhibition 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z

In our hourlong talk, he was knowledgeable but modest, and said his goal was not to beat Nikka or Suntory, or even to earn a lot of money. On a Japanese Whiskey Tour, Small Batches and Bagpipes 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z

Bob Mould's See a Little Light may seem like a modest contribution to the genre of rock-and-roll memoir. Bob Mould's See a Little Light: From Angry Young Man to Wise Elder Statesman of Rock 2011-06-29T09:30:00Z

The company also offers the “My Own Room” option on most tours, which guarantees participants that amenity for a modest additional fee. How solo travelers can beat the high cost of going it alone 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z

This year’s festival, hosted by the Issue Project Room in downtown Brooklyn, opened on Friday evening with a tribute to Pauline Oliveros, a composer whose exposure is modest relative to the breadth of her influence. Music Review: Pauline Oliveros Tribute at Darmstadt Essential Repertoire 2012-06-03T22:18:50Z

That was more than a decade and nearly as many dinners ago, the menu has gotten more modest, as have the guests, and the conversation now has a context and the resulting compassion. Boys’ Night In pork tacos 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z

It was a bit of theatrical magic in a beautiful performance: modest and delicate, yet rising to glimpses of the epic in her final aria of self-sacrifice. Review: ‘Madama Butterfly’ Showcases Ana María Martínez 2016-02-21T05:00:00Z

A particularly telling instance of censorship occurs in a passage about one of the most appealing characters in the series, the modest but heroic Major Berozkin. How the Soviet Literary Establishment Censored Vasily Grossman 2019-06-19T04:00:00Z

She discovered her affinity for “the most modest vegetable” while shooting “The Gleaners and I,” her documentary, from 2000, about people in France who survive by gathering food that others forget or discard. “While I Live, I Remember”: Agnès Varda’s Way of Seeing 2019-03-30T04:00:00Z

Free of those duties, she takes a modest room at Lark House, where she maintains her regal distance. Isabel Allende’s ‘The Japanese Lover’: A tale of history and romance 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z

The film also earned a modest $7.1 million from 35 foreign markets, led by a $2 million contribution from a No. 3 opening in Australia. "Date Night" ekes out disputed box office win 2010-04-11T18:14:00Z

While Freeman said she was happy to have been invited to apply to the fair, she also said her modest operation did not necessarily fit in among the behemoths. Signs of Sea Change at Art Basel Miami: More Galleries of Color 2021-12-04T05:00:00Z

Fox led the night over all by a wide margin even as its 9:30 p.m. sitcom, “Breaking In,” drew a much more modest audience of 7.3 million viewers. ArtsBeat: Fox, With 'Idol,' Leads the Pack 2011-05-05T19:00:07Z

Mr. Cunningham is modest and reserved, and street photographer doesn’t fully explain his practice. Art Review: Bill Cunningham’s ‘Facades’: The Book as Exhibition 2014-03-13T20:25:16Z

Copyright Group then sends a modest settlement offer. "Hurt Locker" lawsuit target pirates 2010-05-12T01:40:00Z

“Five Nights in Maine” could have worked as a play, given its modest scale, but Curran shoots much of the film in intense close-up, which magnifies the actors’ performances. Best empty theaters: the 10 best films without an audience in 2016 2016-12-19T05:00:00Z

See, if Bill Cosby hadn’t spent half a century drugging and assaulting women, Owens’ household would continue to be supported, in part, by the modest residuals he’s earned from his work on “The Cosby Show.” Norm Macdonald has a show. But when hasn’t he? That’s the problem 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z

With a brief running time and modest scale, it is nonetheless dense, with thick textures emerging from its all-string ensemble and an affecting ambivalence in the final section of instrumental darkness and vocal ecstasy. Review: An Orchestra Offers a Novel View of Music History 2021-11-19T05:00:00Z

A potent trombonist as well as an administrator, Mr. Staley is modest in describing the roots of one of New York’s most important avant-garde music spaces. A Critic’s Favorite Space for Music in New York Turns 40 2019-01-04T05:00:00Z

Many of the communities are just a sprinkling of modest houses, perhaps a basic general store, and a local bar. How the famous swimming pigs of the Bahamas came to be 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z

"Garden State," an indie rock-infused story of wayward 20-something life in New Jersey, was a modest hit and tapped a generational nerve. Zach Braff launches Kickstarter campaign for film 2013-04-24T12:41:11Z

Were we meant to contrast the extravagance of her grave with the modest stone for Margaret Pine, believed to be the last person to die enslaved in New York State? Review: In a Cemetery, Music Lives 2020-10-23T04:00:00Z

If Mr. Formichetti is the label’s ideas man, Mr. Peigné is its secret weapon: a modest guy with his feet seemingly planted on the ground. At Mugler, Genius and Its Limits 2011-03-23T22:23:43Z

He lingers in the collective memory as Tracy’s foil, a flawed fellow whose modest aspirations and pathetic lapses are all but obliterated by the locomotive of her ambition. What America Gets Wrong About Tracy Flick 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z

Harry’s modest, charming personality drew mentors to him who filled the roles of surrogate family members, including Hagrid, the Weasleys and Sirius Black. Why I use Harry Potter to teach a college course on child development 2018-08-07T04:00:00Z

She lives in a modest apartment, works a boring job in insurance, sings out loud to Bonnie Tyler’s “Total Eclipse of the Heart” in her beat-up car and goes out dancing by herself. Making Room on the Big Screen for a Woman Over 50 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z

The brothers began to accumulate modest chart successes and Country Music Association trophies on the strength of their 2016 debut. Brothers Osborne Want to Bring Guitar Heroes Back to Nashville 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z

But once Mr. Miles pulls on breeches and boots, doublet and cloak, hat and a modest codpiece, a transformation takes place. Ben Miles Takes on ‘Wolf Hall’ Onstage 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z

Preciousness is a constant threat, and so is obscurity, but Mr. Thayer’s ability to transform and amplify his modest artworks as they travel from one medium to another is little short of magical. Art in Review: TOM THAYER: ?Scenographic Play? 2011-01-27T22:52:23Z

Like Mr. Gillespie, she says some of the best food is found in modest, neighborhood restaurants. A Game Plan for Eating Well in Atlanta 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z

In the early 1940s, his health failing, he lived mainly in a modest apartment in Astoria, Queens, cared for by relatives. An Urban Painter’s Fantastic Floral Visions 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z

Holly is too modest to say so, but she won the race in 2014. Ten low-key European ultramarathon races 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z

As a result, most emerge with little more than a single defining trait — the modest one; the headstrong one; the outsider — that’s nevertheless enough to keep us engaged. Review: ‘Speed Sisters,’ Revving to Go in the West Bank 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z

Even the most modest garden, thus, is a fragile and fleeting thing, and if neglected for years rather than just weeks, it submits wholly to the forces of nature. An artist captures the ‘ghost voices’ of abandoned houses 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z

The 32-year-old company’s output has been modest but its influence is profound. Ranking the Films of Studio Ghibli 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z

“Awareness” campaigns are simply not enough, and signing up more donors to state registries, or to a national registry, will have only modest and incremental effects. The tragedy of American organ donations: So many more people could be saved 2014-03-23T14:00:00Z

“Mr. Zhang is our greatest hope,” says a grateful farmer about this modest humanitarian. Movie Review: ‘High Tech, Low Life,’ About Two Chinese Citizen Reporters 2013-01-08T22:31:18Z

Woody and I took a look at the rather challengingly splendid specimens on the table before us, considered for a moment the slightly more modest scale of our own endowments, and said, 'Hmmm. Clash of the celebrity memoirs 2012-12-10T17:04:59Z

Mr. Heller ended up living in a modest prefab housing development in Westlake Village, Calif. Jerry Heller, music executive who launched gangsta rappers N.W.A., dies at 75 2016-09-03T04:00:00Z

The action is set in a modest Bronx apartment inhabited by three generations of the Berger family. 'Awake & Sing!' at Odyssey Theatre: A sensation is back, fiery as ever 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z

But he died in his sleep in the king-size bed on the second floor of his modest brick-clad house on 107th Street in Corona, Queens. Ways to Spend a Virtual Day With Louis Armstrong 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z

But with a modest appetite or a minor act of self-discipline, you can keep your check under $30, before tax and tip. Nami Nori Gets Hand Rolls Right, and Other Details Too 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z

I was the only guest that evening, and later, after showing me to my modest room, she led me to another down the hall. In Paradisiacal Nicaragua, Contemplating a Canal 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z

They proposed no grand new time-consuming, budget-breaking monuments, but a suite of modest new bridges, along with the renovation of some great historic ones, amid a variety of green spaces. In Madrid, Even Maybe the Bronx, Parks Replace Freeways 2011-12-26T17:08:49Z

It brought Mr. Morse another Tony nomination and was a modest hit, running for more than a year. Robert Morse, Impish Tony-Winning Comedy Star, Is Dead at 90 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z

Thomas’s castle is far more modest than Norma’s cobwebbed sarcophagus, and there isn’t a chatty corpse floating in his pool, just palm fronds. Review: ‘Mojave’ Looks at the Corrosive Effects of Hollywood 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z

It was in this large but modest looking, red-brick house of worship on a quiet backstreet near downtown Newark where Houston's career began as a soloist in a gospel choir in the 1970s. Whitney Houston mourned at New Jersey church of her youth 2012-02-12T16:29:55Z

Fans of the band’s relatively modest indie releases may find the production oddly sparkly, layered with keyboards, wordless harmonies, and exotic little noisemakers and ear-catching details. Album review: The Shins, 'Port of Morrow' 2012-03-19T22:16:00Z

Below is a look at how designers are capturing the modest but powerful spirit of Miller’s plays with simplicity and brawn. Designing Arthur Miller: Simple Gestures, Big Ideas 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z

That first year, the modest new nonprofit offered classes to 56 students — beginning, intermediate and advanced jazz band and a contemporary ensemble taught by Horvitz. Seattle JazzED has grown by leaps and bounds, providing jazz classes to kids who may otherwise not have access 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z

A private, modest, sometimes even self-deprecating man, he once told an interviewer he didn’t move to New York — where jazz reputations are made — because it would force him to be “selling yourself all the time.” Trumpeter Jim Knapp, key architect of Seattle’s modern jazz scene, dies at 82 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z

One of the perks of covering the food scene arrived in our office last week: a modest slab of 20-year-old Cheddar from Hook’s Cheese in Wisconsin. Toby’s Estate Offers Cold-Brew Coffee in a Bottle 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z

She’s too modest to add this, but I will: Her irrepressible ebullience is possibly her strongest feature. Perspective | Putting tap where we wouldn’t expect it 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z

As a dancer, Reynolds wasn’t always so modest. In Hollywood’s golden age, no dancer rivaled Debbie Reynolds’s high-stepping joy 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z

At 2,300 square feet, the trailer is undoubtedly more modest, but Johnson also appreciates its setting. Inside Betsey Johnson’s Malibu Dream House 2021-06-30T04:00:00Z

Conservative judges tend to focus on unearthing the meaning of the original 18th-century Constitution, which had a more modest understanding of federal power. New & Noteworthy Audiobooks, From John le Carré to Adam Rippon 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z

You’re very modest in person, yet you play many over-the-top characters. Kate McKinnon on ‘Ghostbusters,’ ‘S.N.L.’ and Hillary Clinton 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z

The original plan targeted up to 7,000 state employees and had a relatively modest price tag of about $550 million. Politics wreaked havoc on retirement code 2011-12-16T03:20:00Z

My quarters at the Hotel Residency Fort, Mumbai, booked for $52 a night on Hotels.com, were modest luxury, roomy and air-conditioned, and with free breakfast. Mumbai, a City Both Uplifting and Heartbreaking 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z

This was his modest act of literary heroism. Tadeusz Konwicki: A Polish Writer and the Scars of the Past 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z

Moreover the re-instatement of a modest capital allocation of £1.4m for the four years ahead is also worthy of note. Reprieve for the arts in Northern Ireland 2011-03-14T16:34:11Z

Horn, 73, was being a bit modest; he’s routinely described as “the man who invented the ’80s.” The Buggles’ Song Launched MTV. After 45 Years, They’re Going on Tour. 2023-04-17T04:00:00Z

This modest but jampacked mini retrospective — aptly sited in the museum built by his friend and fellow stone carver Isamu Noguchi — is worth taking in slowly. 16 Art Exhibitions to View in NYC This Weekend 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z

“One by one, the places where people of modest means can shop disappear, the places where they can eat disappear, and they places where they can live disappear.” Amazon ruined our “gayborhood”: Tech-bros are swallowing up Seattle’s Capitol Hill — are LGBT districts across the country endangered? 2015-07-26T04:00:00Z

Line up some modest background reading to share, then contact local guides. While cruising, learn more by tapping the power of plugged-in local guides 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z

How on earth was I going to last a minute here, my modest budget being what it was? How to Do Beverly Hills on a Budget 2017-08-09T04:00:00Z

It is not without a surfeit of excesses that would drive a modernist insane, nor is it modest in word or image. | Marian Bantjes, Illuminated 2010-12-01T18:45:00Z

Burn's autobiography deals with important events and famous people, but at its heart, it is the author's own personality – intelligent, modest, painfully honest, drily witty, courageous, highly principled and unfailingly urbane – that shines through. Michael Burn obituary 2010-09-23T16:57:00Z

Most of the dozen or so titles the company published each year yielded only modest revenues. Melvyn Zerman, Publisher of Performing Arts Books, Dies at 79 2010-04-26T04:40:00Z

Shiv, once a political consultant of modest principle, has ideals she’ll cling to a touch longer than the other Roys, before discarding them like a champagne flute onto a waiter’s tray. ‘Succession’ Returns, With No Real People Involved 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z

The Dutch may be modest about their own food, but they are not tepid eaters. Make spicy-sweet Indonesian noodles, and dinner's ready in 10 minutes 2022-09-11T04:00:00Z

It was showing modest portraits and still lifes at a time when abstract painting, the bigger the better, was considered the advanced style. Art Review: When Art Dallied With Poetry on 53rd Street 2011-01-20T22:51:36Z

When Rupert realizes his parents' modest media kingdom will not pass to him, he makes it his life's mission to overshadow the modest legacy dad built. With “The Murdochs: Empire of Influence," CNN has its "Succession" 2022-09-25T04:00:00Z

He was as in favor of the American Revolution as he was horrified by the French; he believed in pluralism, modest but necessary reform and the dispersal of power. Andrew Sullivan on the War Within Conservatism and Why It Matters to All of Us 2020-12-24T05:00:00Z

You have to know that, in terms of her own taste, Sally is a really modest gal. In ‘Blue Jasmine,’ Suzy Benzinger Turns Clothes Into Characters 2013-08-21T20:25:28Z

The Moscow tower plan fell through and was replaced by a more modest project: annexing six acres along the Ukranian border for a bank of video poker machines. Who in the hell is Felix Sater?! 2017-09-09T04:00:00Z

I then headed a short way south on two-lane roads to Tubman’s native Dorchester County, winding past small farms, jagged waterways and modest Main Streets. Finding Traces of Harriet Tubman on Maryland’s Eastern Shore 2022-06-21T04:00:00Z

“The vibes in this city force you to live a very modest life style,” Rotem Malach, who has been working for the World Zionist Organization in Berlin for just over a year, said. So Long, Israel; Hello, Berlin 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z

Coulson never quite repeated the modest success of “The Odd Trump.” Trump and Clinton: The Victorian Novel 2016-09-25T04:00:00Z

One manifestation of this modest evolutionary impulse is that — as both Combs and Singleton pointed out — there are no beer songs on the new album. Can Luke Combs, Country’s Everyman, Grow Up Without Losing Touch? 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z

He wrote the wonderful, if modest, Lyric Pieces, some chamber works, a few volumes of elegant songs. The Case for Greatness in Classical Music 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z

The events of the opera, as in the book and film, are studiedly modest, taking place in a single day. Review: ‘The Hours’ Will Bring Renée Fleming Back to the Met 2022-03-20T04:00:00Z

The 3-D underwater cave adventure "Sanctum," whose producers include "Avatar" creator James Cameron, drew modest crowds and came in second with $9.2 million, according to studio estimates Sunday. `Roommate' earns top box-office bunk with $15.6M 2011-02-06T20:31:04Z

Nor did Mr. Walker seem inclined to yield to the singers’ modest attempts to expand a phrase here and there. Music Review: An Underworld Rescue With Dancers and Chorus 2011-05-01T21:23:02Z

And the latter-day studio-as-instrument masterpieces still dazzle: even at a modest volume level, “Tomorrow Never Knows” sounds strange and terrifying.  Top box sets, from the Beatles to Bill Withers 2012-12-10T16:42:00Z

The film was made on a modest budget of £300,000. Does it matter that only 7% of British films make a profit? 2013-12-09T14:05:57Z

"Even though our budget is somewhat modest, we're excited about having a chance to do a fundraiser and work with community groups doing education around issues of health and a chronic condition," said Mumford. Langston Hughes African American Film Festival gets under way April 17 in Seattle 2010-04-07T23:21:00Z

He also stressed the difference shown in the study is modest, equating to about three fewer infections per 10,000 people . Going vegetarian may lower risk of UTIs in women, study finds 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z

After World War II, an explosion of modest ranch houses with open plans and centrally placed television sets made nesting tables a common feature in American décor. In Praise of Nesting Tables 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z

Any fear that Tyson might not live up to the hype dissolves within moments of her appearance—once, that is, the excited audience has adjusted to the modest scale of the scene. Tyson's inviting 'Trip to Bountiful' at the Ahmanson Theatre 2014-09-28T04:00:00Z

My gross salary is somewhere around the modest figure of $60,000, putting it somewhat lower than the average salary in New York and higher than the US average. 'I wanted something that was mine': why I bought a house at 25 2020-12-16T05:00:00Z

A more modest Late Bottled Vintage port will always be welcome as well. What to give, and not give, to wine lovers on your list 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z

In an era when rock drummers were larger-than-life showmen with big kits and egos to match, Charlie Watts remained the quiet man behind a modest drum set. How Rolling Stones' Charlie Watts infused one of the greatest rock 'n' roll bands with a little jazz 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z

Mr. Silver was actually quite modest about his role. A Staging for Vonnegut’s ‘Make Up Your Mind’ 2013-05-19T21:35:48Z

Judging by the scale of his orchid book, he would have thrilled at the supersize version of his modest rock formation. ‘Orchidelirium’ Explodes With Color at New York Botanical Garden 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z

As far as No. 1 albums go, that total is modest. Steve Lacy’s Streaming Smash ‘Bad Habit’ Climbs to No. 1 2022-10-03T04:00:00Z

Yet the same elements that give her solo work an enigmatic, awkward grace — close harmonies, an introverted performance style, the modest colors of a Wurlitzer organ — are magnified to unflattering effect in her first opera. Music Review: ‘The Vienna Rite,’ by Judith Berkson, at Roulette 2012-11-05T19:43:03Z

Her husband was a handsome practitioner of extreme cinéma vérité with a modest heroin habit and a predilection for beautiful women. A Daughter of a Warhol Superstar Tells Her Story at Last 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z

My caddie, Mark Schroeder, a retired teacher, urged me to play from the middle “Sand” tees, which made the length of the course a modest 6,100 yards. Can Sand Valley Make Wisconsin the Next Golfing Destination? 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z

One modest gallery is at the end of a short hallway off the lobby, tucked next to the restaurant. At new Whitney Museum site, a show is shrouded in parochialism 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z

Edward White’s sleek and modest “The Twelve Lives of Alfred Hitchcock” does not offer grand revelation but a provocative new way of thinking about biography. The Many Selves of Alfred Hitchcock, Phobias, Fetishes and All 2021-04-06T04:00:00Z

Pretty portents of sorrow fill “Kathryn Calder,” the self-titled album by the singer who is best known as the modest team player supplying harmony vocals in the New Pornographers. New Music From Kathryn Calder, Buxton, Nadine Shah, East India Youth and Tal National 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z

“A modest side benefit is it shows that the tech troubles that face the Met sometimes when we try to push the envelope and take on new technologies are not new,” he said. A Starburst Is Born: Watch the Building of the Metropolitan Opera 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z

That sounds modest, but it isn't: right now, he is running 17 classes locally, filling around 400 places a week. A new dawn: how street dance came in from the cold 2010-03-23T21:45:00Z

Pointing to the monitor at his desk, he leveled a modest bombshell with his tidy British accent. Paul Graham and Seizing the Everyday Moments 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z

Overall domestic business was typically modest for a Super Bowl weekend with $92 million overall, according to comScore, as studios remain reluctant to open major titles during the frenzy surrounding the pro football championship. Box Office: 'Jumanji' Regains Top Spot for Modest Super Bowl Weekend 2018-02-04T05:00:00Z

Hillary is one of a handful of notable alumni with their own modest plaques in the halls of Maine East and South. Always running, always prepared: Hillary Clinton as a high school politician 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z

At Madison Square Garden, its production of “Cleopatra,” showcasing a cast of 1,500, made Elizabeth Taylor’s movie look modest. The Last Act for the Ringling Circus 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z

By no means modest, the St. Paul homes that bear plaques stating that the city’s favorite son once lived there would make any passer-by stop and look. Tracing F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Minnesota Roots 2016-04-26T04:00:00Z

It was fascinating for me to hear this modest and miraculous score after having attended the British premiere of Mr. Harvey’s “Weltethos,” an 85-minute oratorio, last summer, performed by the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Music Review: Juilliard’s Focus! Festival at Alice Tully Hall 2013-01-27T21:14:09Z

He’s a man who has attracted bad luck, he’s a noble man, he’s a modest man, he’s in the shadow of his wonderful father.” The Continual Riddle of Shakespeare’s “Pericles” 2016-03-08T05:00:00Z

To achieve that, Mr. Bates turned to the lessons of his early years, when he designed modest buildings from simple materials. Harry Bates, Modernist Architect of Long Island Homes, Dies at 95 2022-11-02T04:00:00Z

My favorite brooch is a fairly modest one of a wave that is not relatively abstract. Art Review: ‘Jewels by JAR,’ Joel Arthur Rosenthal, at the Met Museum 2013-12-26T22:08:45Z

Mr. Katz does supply some savagely funny dialogue and a modest pile of tasty theatrical in-jokes. | 'The Atmosphere of Memory': ?The Atmosphere of Memory? at Bank Street Theater - Review 2011-10-31T02:02:00Z

I contacted Air Canada on your behalf, and it agreed to refund your one-way ticket, and charged a modest $460 to change your return flight — a resolution with which you are happy. Why won’t Air Canada let me fly home? 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z

Unlike most, however, he responded by moving to the heartland and making a film about a family farmer striving to build a modest agribusiness empire. ArtsBeat: Tribeca Film Festival: Ramin Bahrani Goes Big 2013-04-22T17:01:09Z

Etta’s modest manner and her evident sincerity provided an antidote to all this. Baltimore loves Matisse. That’s one more reason to love Baltimore. 2021-11-21T05:00:00Z

Rooms range from the modest to the relatively palatial, some with wood-burning fireplaces. At least once in your life, you’ve got to ski Oregon’s Timberline 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z

Recently, I visited White in his modest Chinatown International District studio, where he talked about the people he lovingly portrays in his paintings and his efforts to showcase other artists’ work. Meet Anthony White, the rising Seattle artist who’s also creating buzzy shows of other artists’ works 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z

Inspired by repeated suggestions that he turn his experiences into a book, Klima banged out a manuscript, found an agent, and sold the book for a modest advance. He cleaned crime scenes, then wrote a book 2010-06-18T22:55:00Z

Admittedly, the skiing is likewise modest, with a mere 440 feet of vertical drop. Land of 100 Olympians: Why Steamboat Springs is a winter sports mecca 2022-03-19T04:00:00Z

“Part of the pleasure of the movie is its modest scale, its hushed beauty and the deliberate ordinariness of its story,” Ms. Dargis wrote in The Times in December. ‘Riot in Cell Block 11’ and ‘The Big House’ on DVD 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z

So it wasn't a huge party, not even a modest one. The Survivor by S?nia Hern?ndez, translated by Samantha Schnee 2011-04-01T11:27:00Z