"If you're successful, you must express a modest appearance," he told me.
Modest appearance aside, it is simple to see why her music has such appeal.
A small man of modest appearance and pleasant manners, Alia had none of the cheap charisma of Hoxha.
With its modest appearance, the ring might not attract a second glance were it not for its links to France's national heroine, a Roman Catholic saint.
Until the mid-2000s, the gentlemen's agreement among the embezzlers held that they keep a modest appearance at home and launder their money in Dubai and Toronto.
That is what they get around to prove in the new Filmakers presentation, "Private Hell 36," which put in a modest appearance yesterday at the Paramount.
In late-1980s Cairo, Ms. Amer became fascinated with a fashion magazine, Venus, that used photomontage to give Western fashions a more modest appearance.
She had beaten Ndereba, as she had earlier this year at 10 kilometers in London, and she left with $10,000 in prize money plus a modest appearance fee.
Extraordinary vision and energy issued from a small man, of modest appearance and mild-mannered stance, head often cocked to one side and bushy eyebrows, with a friendly but questioning smile.
But despite its modest appearance, the house embodies a respect for the past that is a hallmark of this neighborhood, which was designated a city historic district in 1997.
