"This Is Nothing", he writes, modestly acknowledging his master, while smuggling in a bittersweet pun.
On the way back to the dressing room he modestly acknowledged a standing ovation he will never forget.
Jeffrey Katzenberg, the DreamWorks Animation chief executive, received the Jean Hersholt award for his philanthropic efforts and modestly acknowledged that his main contribution was getting other people to give.
"Sarcasm is my best thing," she modestly acknowledges while sizing up characters like Miss Becky-Sue, "that little bit of Texas trash," whose motto is: "The bigger the hair, the closer to God".
We only know the night is truly over when Morricone puts his sheet music under his arm and shuffles across the stage, modestly acknowledging the applause and cries of "Bravo maestro!" If this tour represents his career's end credits, he has done himself proud.
Despite tasting "Distinctively Different," as its bottle label modestly acknowledges, Moxie has retained a devoted following in New England (the Boston Red Sox slugger Ted Williams endorsed the soda in the 1950's), and especially in Maine, where the town of Lisbon Falls holds an annual Moxie Festival each July.
"A red-headed man," Mick Hucknall modestly acknowledges, "is not generally considered to be a sexual icon," although that did not stop the singer from using his own curly red locks to remarkable seductive effect at the height of his fame in the mid- 80s, when he estimates he slept with more than 3,000 women in three years.
Wilson modestly acknowledged that Wayne's career remains a commercial powerhouse but has had a bit of a quality falloff on recent albums such as the middling "Tha Carter 4".
On the basis of genetic data alone, the researchers modestly acknowledged, they could not "totally discard that the gourd's sample belongs to Louis XVI". They have saved their analysis, in case other relics purported to come from relations of Louis are discovered.
He refuses to acknowledge that what he does is above and beyond his role as caretaker, but modestly agrees that it is thanks to him that the school has a minibus.
Acknowledge, acknowledge!
