Without the exceptional skill of Regrave (who is a pleasure to watch), it's doubtful the show would have even the modest hold that it does on our attention.
A modest library held English-language biographies of Eric Clapton and Andre Agassi, and a full set of Danielle Steel.
The prime minister, along with the army, navy, and air-force chiefs, all missed his funeral which was a modest one held in Tamil Nadu in the south, not a grand one in the capital.
It was hardly a level playing field yet, though – in 1904, a modest Games held as part of the World's Fair in St Louis, featured 645 men... and just six women.
They say that Sidgwick's non-naturalism was comparatively modest, holding only that there are truths about what people ought or have reason to do that we can know by reflection.
Most economists expect home prices — and by extension home sales and construction — to slip even further in 2011 before a modest recovery takes hold.
Earlier this month, there was a modest panel discussion, held in the lobby of Pier 40, called "Westway Revisited".
A modest white bowl holds an exemplary oyster pan roast: three plump, perfect oysters enrobed in cream and vermouth, accompanied by a funky uni crostino.
I co-founded a successful business – Boing Boing, the widely-read website – that benefits enormously from not having to pay fealty to a distributor in order to reach its readers (by contrast, the old print edition of Boing Boing folded when its main distributor went bankrupt while owing it a modest fortune and holding onto thousands of dollars' worth of printed materials that we never got back).
Clean fish tanks hold a modest selection of sea creatures.
