Poor Alex retreats to his quarters bearing a modest library of texts.
I arrive at the door bearing a modest tribute: a box of expensive Alphonso mangoes, each in its own D-cup of green tissue paper.
As the actors playing the rock luminaries gradually assemble onstage, each bearing a modest resemblance to the fabled performer he is portraying, a faint air of the animatronic threatens to settle over the proceedings.
Walking around Tate Modern, its open architecture a testament to its commitment to the principle of public access, its transparent collection boxes bearing the modest request "Come back soon please donate £4", its galleries filled with political works of all kinds, it is extremely difficult to imagine anything like this kind of pressure being brought to bear here.
Owen Van Natta, the chief executive of MySpace, came to the Web 2.0 conference in San Francisco last week bearing some modest news: MySpace will expand its selection of music videos and make them more prominent in its search results, profile pages and on a "New Music Video" hub.
The original arched windows are appropriately Calvinist in spirit, bearing just a modest red thread of stained glass.
Striving to adopt a bearing both modest and unconcerned, reminiscent of the lost traditions of innocence of a younger world, I stepped briskly past the three ladies, who made no pretence of looking away.
And though his bearing is modest, at 41 he is already one of the leaders of Spain's cocina vanguardia, as the chef and owner of the rustic Mugaritz, outside San Sebastián in the Basque country.
111In-BnDTPA-F3 has a potent cytotoxic effect in vitro and an anti-tumor effect in mice bearing 231-H2N xenografts despite modest total tumor accumulation.
But others dressed in black and bearing lillies arrived on a modest suburban train to Brookwood station.
