Maybe up on a modest stage, for half-hour periods, with five minutes off for autographs.
The two men's wives, Laura Bush and Lynne Cheney, shared a modest stage with them.
A modest stage in the rear features renegade local acts like Chelsea Wolfe, Ringworm and Mutilation Rites.
Back in early September, in a hot, dusty dog park on the east side of Portland, a few hundred people gathered around a modest stage to listen to two men called Andy.
When the band -- in this case, Primary Colours, a New York City trio -- came out, it took its place on a modest stage so close to the audience they could practically shake hands.
Zebulon, a cozy, poorly lit bar-cafe in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, has a modest stage tucked against the back wall on which, most nights, a few singer-songwriters or small bands give it their all in exchange for their share of the tip basket.
Around the church, the festival organizers had set up an arts and crafts tent, a "Falafel for Peace" food stand, and a modest stage on Breitscheidplatz.
The Jubilee! Theater at Bally's is an intimate space with a modest stage, but I was absolutely floored by the elaborate settings.
Such small gene effects would, in a GWAS discovery experiment comprising 20K cases and 20K controls, be expected to have only a 5% probability of passing even a modest stage-1 (tentative discovery) threshold of P< 0.00001.
A game board is a more modest stage than the Himalayas or Formula One, but Raffi Khatchadourian's Profile of Falafel, the highest-ranked backgammon player in the world and a certifiable hustler, contains just as much drama: Unlike chess, backgammon is tactile, fast-moving, even loud, with checkers slammed down and tiny dice sounding like rattlesnakes as they traverse the board.
