For now, there's a modest breakfast buffet of croissants and yogurt, which have to be carried to your room.
Bill Clinton, hobbled by impeachment but still far more popular at that point in his presidency than Mr. Bush is now, proposed a buffet of modest, centrist proposals, including cutting taxes for married couples, increasing grants for college and having Medicare pay for prescription drugs (which Mr. Bush's administration finally accomplished).
The family had saved for some time to throw an event to be remembered: decorations, modest but attractive; a buffet that would rival that of most restaurants; and gifts for every woman in attendance: a moment that would remind all that this was a marriage blessed from above.
For his still lifes he chose humble objects (The Buffet, 1728), and for his genre paintings modest events (Woman Sealing a Letter, 1733).
The casino boasts a decent, and predictably pricey, restaurant (Casa Vernescu), but as a down-on-his-luck gambler pointed out to me, the modest but tasty hot and cold buffet upstairs is free.
With the idea of trying to please the adults as well as the children on this trip, we did not choose the more modest places or the cafeteria-style or buffet options for dinner.
Like most of the inhabited islands, Ua Pou's modest town, where we stopped for a typical buffet lunch of poisson cru (a traditional Tahitian dish of raw fish, coconut milk and lime), beef, rice and banana pudding, was equipped with a post office, a bank, a school, a few general stores and not much else.
Hollande's modest combover, although often drenched by rain and buffeted by wind at public events, had never previously garnered the same attention as the heavily invested hairstyles of the US presidential candidate Donald Trump and Britain's Boris Johnson.
The modest turnout was perhaps to be expected at the annual meeting of the American Historical Association — an all-you-can-eat intellectual buffet with nearly 5,000 attendees and more than 250 separate sessions — which concludes on Sunday.
