Plainly, the artist wants to deliver the pleasures of paint and color as directly as possible, but this modest desire is swamped by the imperatives of an overblown style.
And strictly speaking, it isn't personal compatibility that is at issue here, but whether the modest desire of the applicants to retain a scrap of human dignity can be successfully married to the lunatic demands of their prospective employers.
At a party, he meets Jane Felicity Joness), who is studying "arts," as she says, and they begin a charmingly awkward courtship in which she jollies him along as he confesses his modest desire to create "one single unified equation that explains everything in the universe".
He believes keeping your desires modest allows you to stay humble; something most people in hip hop would never want to be.
Still, he is optimistic about the future and modest in his desires.
For now, intervention seems to be producing the desired modest slowdown in growth, and it's easy to see why investors pushed Chinese equities higher on Monday — despite an already strong rebound — with the positive sentiment helping American stock markets, too.
Coming in at $170 per day on Price of Travel's 2014 Three-Star Traveler Index for budget travelers, Copenhagen is pricey even if your vacation desires are modest.
Until then, her desires are modest.
Was it a genuinely modest art lover who desired this particular Picasso beyond all else, would pay any price for it and wanted nothing so much as to quietly take it home, to an undisclosed location?
Under normal reaction conditions, modest yields of the desired product could be obtained, albeit accompanied by significant levels of non-selective degradation of the substrate.
