At that point there were just modest plans to showcase a work in progress and no grand hopes that the opera would end up on the Met stage.
"I'm proud of our new locations, even if they're just modest offices on the first floor in Kabul," he said.
One measure of the religious diversity of this city of 800,000 people -- among them 80,000 Jews and 150,000 Muslims -- is that the once overwhelming number of Christian churches has been joined by 35 synagogues and 51 small mosques, even though many are just modest, makeshift prayer halls.
But even if it's just modest social interaction around video, that might be a marked improvement from vegging out on the couch binging Netflix or endlessly lurking through the News Feed.
She says making them is simple, but I think she's just modest.
If this is just the modest exchange rate adjustment suggested here, not a lot.
Poor Homo sapiens -- compared with records like that, the Beijing competition is just a modest exercise.
This is just being modest, as it turns out, for the RAM tops the Guardian's table of higher education specialist institutions, which means it scores consistently highly all round.
Josie Rourke, artistic director of the Donmar Warehouse theatre, says: "She is just a modest and private person who never blows her own trumpet".
Its coach, René Girard, has tried for months to say that a title can't happen, that Montpellier is just a modest little runner in front of a petroleum-propelled supertanker coming down from Paris.
