"Though he is a marvelous technician, there is something finally modest, personal, openly committed about his fiction, a frankness of personal reference that removes him from the godlike impersonality of the novelist," Alfred Kazin wrote in a review of "In a Free State" (1971) in The New York Review of Books.
The Don't Shoot Coalition has issued a set of 19 demands – and they are, like the desire for Wilson to be indicted for a crime no one denies he committed, very modest.
Better still if lots of governments genuinely committed themselves to modest emissions-reductions in the meantime.
While a Turkish fleet had sufficed to dismantle a large part of Venice's empire, Bayezid, fearing that an alliance of Christian powers using his brother Cem might be formed against him, committed only a modest force against the Mamlūks.
Haiti is where he stopped and committed himself, on the modest salary of an M.L.S. midfielder.
But most carriers so far have committed themselves only to relatively modest projects.
This agreement led to the Kyoto protocol, which committed participating developed nations to modest emissions reductions in the period 2008 2012.
All of the group's members aspired to act, and some, including Mr. Makem, achieved modest success, but by 1956 they were committed to music.
Others believe that India's economic downturn may not affect its foreign aid ambitions due to its relatively young age as a donor and the modest aid budget that the country has committed to at the moment.
Californians' excited reactions to Dunkin Donuts arriving in their state is the subject of Maher's latest "New Rule," wherein he offers a modest suggestion for anyone who's that committed to the fast food experience.
So in the words of Jonathan Swift, I want to make a modest suggestion to the folks who have committed themselves to bringing an end to gun violence in the United States.
