For example, IBM's 1964-model Selectric typewriter with a magnetic tape drive predated bit-mapped graphics and had only modest formatting capabilities.
It's a big and exuberantly gaudy directorial performance that's delivered in a modest and intimate format, and it's greatly aided by the remarkable images of Sean Price Williams, whose darting, agile camera work, often apparently with telephoto lenses, achieves a blend of intimacy and distance, of perception and opacity reminiscent of the camerawork in the films of John Cassavetes.
Here's a modest proposal: change the format to game shows.
Reissued in this format, the modest early black-and-white photographs of Robert Rauschenberg's studio and a well-known image of Twombly's early chalk paintings are as murky as photogravures.
On the other hand, Levis et al. and Alekel et al. [ 17, 18] that used mixtures of isoflavones in glycoside format observed only modest or no effect at all.
Denton's response is a modest tweak to the reverse chronological format that kept pushing the biggest stories off Gawker's front pages.
The pair-wise comparison task showed that, overall there were only modest differences between the different label formats.
Using modest, ready-to-hand techniques and a format that seems to emphasize the most banal, literal-minded, artless aspects of picture taking, Mr. Panahi has constructed a subtle, strange and haunting work of art.
Shooting with available light in a soft-edged digital format, Mr. Miller explores this issue in modest, prosaic terms.
The works on offer range from the oeuvre of court artists and scholars to more modest pieces by folk painters and come in every format, from hanging scrolls to folding fans.
