Cohen, who has worked at ExxonMobil since 1977, is a mild-looking man of modest height with a thick head of graying hair.
Carlos, an iron worker by trade who is the son of migrant farm workers from Mexico, is a lean man of modest height, casually dressed, not the limousine type.
Now, he said, he might favor "an office building of more modest height with the possibility of a superstructure on top of it," an idea first sketched out by architects working for Larry A. Silverstein, who holds the lease to the trade center property.
He is of middle age and modest height, and has a high, gentle voice and a ponytail.
Mr. Trintignant appears to have realized early on that he was, in the usual terms of movie stardom, only an average specimen of homo cinematicus: of modest height, medium good looking, possessed of a pleasant, expressive, but not terribly memorable voice.
The title plays on slang for a pint bottle of rotgut, the modest height of the author and his hero (Bruno is described variously as 5-foot-7 and approximately 5-foot-4) and the stories themselves.
A modest seat height keeps the centre of gravity lower than that of a typical motorcycle, giving the Bulldog greater stability and making it easier for newbies to handle.
And today, the places where this giant of modest height lived and worked have become a national monument to the immense significance of his life and the wonderful example of an existence devoted to do as much good for the rest of humanity as possible.
It was forty stories or so in an area of town houses and other structures of modest height and it created its own weather systems, with strong currents of air that sometimes sheared down the face of the building and knocked old people to the pavement.
Over breakfast in Austin, a few steps from the state capitol, a sharp Democratic thinker joked that the Castros' potential is limited only by their modest height (American voters have long favoured tall presidential candidates).
