Sony's shares fell by a modest 1.8% in anticipation of the announcement, which was made after the markets closed.
They talked about going to a pizza parlor when the weather improved -- a modest excursion that meant anticipation, possibility.
Stock prices, which rallied in anticipation of a more modest rate cut, shot up across the board after the Fed's announcement that it would "employ all available tools" to right the economy.
Those were good-sized numbers, reflecting anticipations of substantial growth, but they were modest compared with what was to come.
This week, in anticipation of what turned out to be a modest feature that recommends interesting tweets to people, thousands of users on the service lost their minds predicting that Twitter as we know it was soon to be dead.
EVEN on a modest computer, the revving of the virtual racing car's engine stirs anticipation.
It does so with modest changes to provider reimbursements and by introducing efficient preventive care practices in anticipation of accountable care organizations.
"It will need to be a way that is less naïve in its assumptions, more modest in its ambitions, more humble in its approach and more imaginative in its anticipation of what can go wrong," he said.
Even at their most modest, they can set the tone for a film, and build up a sense of anticipation.
That is changing, in a modest way, as the result of a United States Air Force colonel's inspired campaign and in anticipation of next year's centennial celebration of the Amundsen-Scott achievements.
That's why there remains an air of anticipation around this show — his first in the Los Angeles area since 2012 — despite its modest scale.
