In North America success was more modest.

Following the modest success of Le donne letterate Salieri received new commissions writing two additional operas in 1770 both with libretti by Boccherini.

It was a modest box office success, but received critical acclaim, earning a score of 96 % on the review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes.

A year later he took the reins on a solo basis and was rewarded with immediate success ( at least in terms of expectations at the time which, after so long in the wilderness, were somewhat modest ).

Despite its modest critical and commercial success in Italy, and its warm reception by French critics, it failed to interest North American distributors.

A modest success, it was followed by Kelly's last musical film for MGM, Les Girls ( 1957 ), in which he partnered a trio of leading ladies, Mitzi Gaynor, Kay Kendall and Taina Elg.

By 1991 President Callejas had achieved modest success in controlling inflation.

The film was only a modest success upon its initial release but found greater success, and a cult following, after its video release.

" This follows the modest success of a Japanese-conceived peace plan which became the foundation for nationwide elections in Cambodia in 1998.

An amphibious jeep, the model GPA, or " seep " ( Sea Jeep ) was built for Ford in modest numbers but it could not be considered a huge success — it was neither a good off-road vehicle nor a good boat.

The Maid of Arran, a melodrama with songs based on William Black's novel A Princess of Thule, proved a modest success.

Prior to that, his last produced play was The Tik-Tok Man of Oz ( based on Ozma of Oz and the basis for Tik-Tok of Oz ), a modest success in Hollywood that producer Oliver Morosco decided did not do well enough to take to Broadway.

" Aarzoo was a below average grosser in India but was a modest success overseas.

" This film was a modest financial success after it was shown in local movie houses around the Pacific Northwest.

The Pixies achieved relatively modest commercial success in their home country, but were significantly more successful in the United Kingdom and mainland Europe.

The band found modest mainstream success during the mid-to-late 1990s.

While the film received scathing reviews from critics, it was a modest box office success, garnering over $ 130 million worldwide.

While " Cast Your Fate To The Wind " by Guaraldi achieved modest chart success as a single in 1963, a cover version two years later by British group Sounds Orchestral cracked the Billboard top 10 ( in the spring of 1965 ).

Featuring Chrysler's first mainstream rear-wheel drive platform since the 1980s and a revival of the Hemi V8 engine, it was a modest success.

On its release, in spring 1974, the film was praised for its offbeat comedy mixed with high suspense and tragedy but was only a modest success at the box office, earning $ 32. 4 million ( US $ in dollars ).

Returning once again to a reworking of the past, this time the supposed murder of director Thomas Ince by Orson Welles's bête noire William Randolph Hearst, The Cat's Meow was a modest critical success but made little money at the box office.

After modest success, a truce is signed and emperor Valentinian I orders the Saxons to join the Roman army.

Arc de Triomphe ( 1943 ), a musical vehicle for Mary Ellis, was only a modest success, but Perchance to Dream ( 1945 ) was immensely successful, running for 1, 022 performances.

His first, Peter Ibbetson, was a modest success at the time and later adapted to stage and screen, most notably in the 1935 film starring Gary Cooper, and as an opera.

It was Australia's first successful soap opera ; the show's ratings were modest but it had a devoted following, especially in rural Australia.

The modest success of The Sorcerer was overshadowed by the extraordinary popularity of Gilbert and Sullivan's later collaborations, and the opera remains one of the team's less popular ones.

In his early career Galuppi made a modest success in opera seria, but from the 1740s, together with the playwright and librettist Carlo Goldoni, he became famous throughout Europe for his comic operas in the new dramma giocoso style.

He wrote a modest number of vocal works, include 12 songs, a cantata, a mass, and one opera, The Captive of Spilberg.

Gilbert and Sullivan's penultimate opera, Utopia, Limited ( 1893 ), was a very modest success compared with their earlier collaborations.

One very important auteur was Ruperto Chapí, who spent his life oscillating between attempts to create a proper Spanish opera, and his modest género chico plays, which included Música Clásica (" Classical Music "), La revoltosa (" The Rebel Girl "), ¡ Las doce y media y sereno!

The company's growth under the management of David Webster from modest beginnings to parity with the world's greatest opera houses was recognised by the grant of the title " The Royal Opera " in 1968.

The literary opus of Sigmund Zois, of modest quality and little influence, includes many literary forms and genres, ranging from arias for the opera to lyrics for folk music, although probably only a minor part of his work has been preserved.

The theatre shows about three staged opera productions a year, mostly baroque or chamber works, suited to the modest size of its stage and orchestra pit.

Benjamin has expressed his hope that his simpler orchestration will allow the material to be presented in more modest venues, indicating that Joplin never intended for the " opera " to depend on a large orchestra.

His very honest act called up the recent talk I had with another minister, a modest Methodist, who said: `` I feel so deeply blessed by God when I can give a message of love and comfort to other men, and I would have it no other way: and it is unworthy to think of self.

Here, then, is what Swift would have called a modest proposal by way of a beginning.

) there is no evidence that he ever bore the name Octavianus, as it would have made his modest origins too obvious.

However, Army units in the United States would have had trouble fielding mechanized and logistical assets, while the US Navy could not supply sufficient amphibious shipping to transport even a modest armored contingent from the Army.

In 2011, MIT announced it would offer formal certification ( but not credits or degrees ) to online participants completing coursework in its " MITx " program, for a modest fee.

The first mammals also appeared during the Mesozoic, but would remain small and modest until the Cenozoic.

War soon broke out in Slavonia, and Elizabeth, believing that Mary's mere presence would end the conflict, set out for Đakovo, accompanied by Garay and a modest following.

When in 1942 it became clearer that the fighting would go on for a while, car and truck factories were switched to war work in a modest way, Opel taking up the production of aircraft parts and tanks.

In total, the journey time outcomes will be more modest than we would have expected with only a minority of travellers likely to benefit from significant journey time improvements.

Despite its modest beginnings in the 18th century, it would radically change human society and the environment.

In it he pledged that the Conservatives would endorse modest reform, but the Whigs instead formed a compact with Daniel O ' Connell's Irish Radical members to repeatedly defeat the government on various bills.

Most notorious was his acquisition of burning houses: when Crassus received word that a house was on fire, he would arrive and purchase the doomed property along with surrounding buildings for a modest sum, and then employ his army of 500 clients to put the fire out before much damage had been done.

EOF achieved a modest level of popularity in the financial programming community in the mid-1990s, but it would come into its own with the emergence of the World Wide Web and the concept of web applications.

King Fulk of Jerusalem, fearing that the emperor's presence with overwhelming military force would constrain him to make an act of homage and formally recognise Byzantine suzerainty over his kingdom, begged the emperor to bring only a modest escort.

The incident was not repeated, the play received moderately good reviews and had a modest run of four weeks, before being taken off to make way for Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest, which Alexander thought would have better prospects for the coming Season.

Historian Robert Owens argued that the chiefs probably did not intend to give up ownership of the land, and that they would not have sold so much valuable territory for such a modest price.

Buchan's name had been earlier put forward by Mackenzie King to George V as a candidate for the governor generalcy: Buchan and his wife had been guests of Mackenzie King's at his estate, Kingsmere, in 1924, and Mackenzie King, who at that time was prime minister, was impressed with Buchan, stating, " I know no man I would rather have as a friend, a beautiful, noble soul, kindly & generous in thought & word & act, informed as few men in this world have ever been, modest, humble, true, man after God's own heart.

The film would eventually gross a domestic total of $ 30, 652, 890 from a modest $ 10 million budget.

Gosset was a modest man who cut short an admirer with the comment that “ Fisher would have discovered it all anyway .”

A related usage is for some object or attribute that is, in actual fact, not very desirable ; a " modest dwelling " would describe a hut, but not a palace.

A modest women would not behave so as to encourage the sexual attention of men.

They assumed that any entrepreneurs of modest means, such as William Page appeared to be, would become discouraged and give up.

The model rocket kits were a modest success and MITS wanted to try a kit that would appeal to more hobbyists.

Their agent, Abby Greshler, negotiated for them one of Hollywood's best deals: although they received only a modest $ 75, 000 between them for their films with Wallis, Martin and Lewis were free to do one outside film a year, which they would co-produce through their own York Productions.