"We really learned a lot of from Trump University and have found a modicum of success," wrote another student, Kissy Gordon.
Though it is "made with evident affection and a modicum of visual wit," Mr. Scott wrote in The Times in October, "the filmmakers' tweaking of old-style militancy and old-fashioned racial oppression never amounts to much beyond a sendup of pop-cultural attitudes that were often self-mocking to begin with".
I speak with a modicum of authority having spent a good year researching and writing a television mini-series about Lawrence and the Arab revolt of 1916-18.
"She might enjoy a modicum of celebrity in the annals of medical science," he writes to a colleague.
The player's inability to display "even a modicum of regret" for his behaviour disbarred him from football, wrote Rowan Pelling in the Daily Telegraph.
After more than two decades of treating and writing about sexual addiction, I've developed a modicum of expertise.
Sheet music was written simply enough for people with a modicum of musical training to play or sing, and it had to be catchy.
There was one man happy that the trial produced even a modicum of condemnation of a steroid user, and Christine Brennan of USA Today writes about how Don Hooton, whose steroid-using son committed suicide, cheered himself with the news.
It is as unflinching as all Gates's other writing, but for once he hints at a modicum of redemption for humanity in all our messy awfulness.
Whitney Balliett wrote those words in 1965, bestowing a serious subculture with a modicum of approval.
