They were reluctant to do so publicly because we were still in that fleeting period when bankers displayed a modicum of chagrin for the debacle they had caused.
This is, we are told, the week that Clinton pivots from a campaign strategy of quietly watching Trump self-destruct or attacking him slightly less quietly when he displays a modicum of discipline.
In the 1970's she coined the phrase "beauty with a purpose," and began insisting that besides exhibiting alluring vital statistics, the contestants should display a modicum of intelligence and social awareness.
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.
Those designing and implementing Middle Eastern policy should display at least a modicum of humility.
With their simultaneous display of hubris, remorselessness, incompetence and corruption, the banks have finally ignited a modicum of courage in banking regulators.
The booths divide logistically into those that put up display labels and those that do not (making it necessary to ask), and between those that attempt a modicum of curatorial thought and those that just put out the merch.
A modicum of people like it.
There is a modicum of control.
