It was a modest message with little rhythm and, of course, no rhyme.
Alessandra Stanley from The New York Times commented that the song had a modest message with lines like "Don't you give up/it's not so bad/there's still a chance for us".
Harry Truman, who had been President for less than a month, delivered a modest radio message that proclaimed May 8th as V-E Day ("I only wish that Franklin D. Roosevelt had lived to see this day"), and James Forrestal, the Secretary of the Navy, read a short message over a public-address system.
America Online has seen its per day E-mail traffic grow 20,000% since June , 1994 when AOL routed a modest 75,000 messages a day.
There's a tension here between Shenk's extravagant talk of "greatness" and "genius" and the more modest message he delivers: practice can improve your performance, perhaps far more than you imagined.
Its chapter lies neglected in the standard works, little changed over the years, its modest message overwhelmed by the excitements to be found elsewhere in tort.
The song received generally mixed reviews, with one group of reviewers commenting that the modest message of the song was uninspiring while others called the song sweet and commended Madonna's commitment to charity.
The brand-conscious Disney, in particular, expects its division chiefs to keep a modest profile, stay on message and play nice with corporate siblings.
It usually offers unlimited text messages for a modest fee, even on prepaid phone plans, making it less costly than conventional SMS texting.
Alongside Twitter timelines fit to bursting with tributes and testimonies from DJs and punters, the club's doors are now playing host to a modest clutch of flowers and messages of their own.
