For all its wrenching violence, the movie, anchored by Mr. Gibson's modest, disciplined performance, has a feeling of calm stoicism.
Mr. Halstead said that the price increases in Manhattan have been "modest, disciplined over the last decade," compared with other investments, like stocks.
And it would be as silly to call his budget plan a "tax increase" as to deny that even his more modest fiscal discipline will require real cuts in the value of popular government benefits.
The successor will no doubt be another creature owned, managed and run by the press, another spin of the discredited wheel of self-regulation in an industry which is manifestly immune to whatever modest amount of discipline may be imposed by self-regulation.
Your best course is rational investing that requires a modest amount of discipline.
But whether private or political, her poems are curiously gentle, too, modest, patient, delicately disciplined as a laser: "The peace treaty / is hiding in darkness / like a grown-up / not wishing to be found".
Cross-country running teaches you a lot of self-discipline; even modest running talent is rewarded by good discipline.
Yet even that modest attempt at fiscal discipline was thrown overboard when he voted to increase aid to Israel — and boasted about it in a statement issued by his office.
Given meagre election turnouts and the Brotherhood's formidable discipline, even in modest numbers its supporters make a difference.There is another wild card.
But by his 12th birthday, already 5 feet 9, he was outgrowing the disciplines, and the modest basketball court Giorgi now roamed became his new stage, until he was good enough to venture downtown, to places like the Vere Basketball Hall, with its regulation court, 2,500 seats and no heat.
