He has a modest dinner-party definition of his work - "coming up with gadgets so that you can fake a person into thinking they're in an artificial place" - but few recent innovations have had such consequences.
In its native form, hygge is regarded as essentially uncommercial, and by definition modest; yet at the same time it is helped along by certain consumer props – especially candles or gently glowing lamps.
Keeping the definition modest (4 Mbps down, 1 up) only encourages laxity in the space, reducing the cost and urgency of deploying new networks.
ST. PAUL — A chamber orchestra might seem by definition a modest enterprise.
The very definition of modest, "Las Acacias" articulates emotional transformation with simplicity and grace.
Here are some modest examples: (1) By definition, God is a non-existent being who has every (other) perfection.
Under a rare or private functional variant model with extensive locus heterogeneity, linkage evidence will (by definition) be modest and generally inconsistent [4], [5]).
The correlation of pathological findings of DAD and ARDS diagnosed by Berlin definition is modest.
The budget deficit, at 1% this year (on the Maastricht definition), is already modest and will continue to fall, thanks to relatively buoyant tax revenues.
The New York chapter, which serves the city and four suburban counties, quietly responds to 8 or 10 disasters a day, though the chapter's definition of disaster is modest: house fires, car accidents, apartment buildings without heat.
Two more modest measures -- one changing the definition of investment advisors, another requiring an SEC study -- garnered unanimous support.
