The phrase "a modest form of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is a simple or understated version of a larger concept or idea.
Example: "The artist's latest work is a modest form of expression that captures the essence of everyday life."
Alternatives: "a simple version of" or "a subtle type of".
By staging his own death, Mr. Lamb hopes to attain a modest form of immortality.
If more than 5percentt of the tests came back positive, it would trigger a modest form of penalty testing in 2004.
Painters of the Ecole de Paris, the centre of the avant garde, were still using easels, skirting around the edges of the condition humaine with a modest form of existentialism, or otherwise just copying Picasso.
The players and league settled with five days to go before the season started, with the main breakthrough for the players being a modest form of free agency for players over the age of 55, who'd been with the same team since before the team's expansion fee check cleared (or something).
The signs are also intended to foster a modest form of heritage tourism -- which local merchants are doing their bit to encourage: Store patrons can pick up a brochure with a brief history of the village and a map for a walking tour that loops around the downtown area.
In addition, haecceitists typically assume at least a modest form of essentialism insofar as individuals are taken to have their haecceities essentially.
Such "wage insurance" already exists in a modest form on both sides of the Atlantic.
Formally, set theory can be derived by the addition of various special axioms to a rather modest form of LPC that contains no predicate variables and only a single primitive dyadic predicate constant to represent membership.
But there's a more modest form of imagination that's within the reach of more directors: a practical imagination that, within familiar modes of storytelling, considers characters with a quasi-documentary, journalistic curiosity and empathy.
In a sense, Truman disorder is an unusually modest form of grandiose delusion: rather than becoming Napoleon, you become a famous version of yourself.
But it is a more modest form of platonism than Gödel's platonism.
