The moment in which Lincoln has to raise the flag outside a naval building, after a short, self-deprecating speech that he has written on a piece of paper – kept in his hat – is a superbly managed scene: modest, undramatic, gently comic.
And Warren's foreign-policy credentials are, to put it gently, modest.
Schmidt punched the air gently, a modest exclamation after a powerful performance.
German cable television broadcasts shows like "Das Perfekte Promi Dinner," which features minor German soap actors, former athletes and the occasional ex-porn star shopping and cooking meals for one another in their (generally modest) homes, then being gently graded on the results.
Pop the spices in a frying pan and roll gently over a modest flame until a rich scent is released after a minute or so.
J. Fernandez, a band from Chicago, drew on the motoric patterns of bands like Stereolab and the shifty meters of progressive rock in songs that were modest on the surface but gently insistent.
But even such a modest (to put it very gently) commitment would be more productive than no numbers at all.
The modest-sized greens are only gently undulating but drop-offs and deep pot bunkers call for accuracy.
She uses the ingredients of her previous albums — gently picked guitar, a hushed voice, modest electronics — but jettisons any pop expectations.
A bare-chested man sits cross-legged on the beach with his wife, who is clad in a modest bathing-suit-cum-skirt, her hand placed gently on his shoulder.
