This splendid proposition by the British Vacuum Cleaner Company in 1903 was followed by a modest hint: "House-cleaning being thus deprived of its terrors, it is perhaps fair to assume that quarterly cleanings will take the place of annual ones, and houses will be thereby rendered infinitely more healthy and sanitary".
Though "Down with Love" is an achievement of a lower order of invention, it, too, offers a surprising, liberating payoff, which, in its own more modest way, hints at the enduring inseparability of mask and costume from the expression of the truest and deepest self.
Target, the discount department store chain, said this week that sales in the first part of November were below already modest expectations, and hinted that December sales were likely to be below those of a year ago.
The boy and his twin brother grew up on the streets of Northside, down in the little choke valley, befouled by industry, between the university hill to the southeast and the neighborhood to the north, College Hill, which had no college, despite its name, only modest white houses hinting at the white suburbs to come.
By C. E. Morgan The boy and his twin brother grew up on the streets of Northside, down in the little choke valley, befouled by industry, between the university hill to the southeast and the neighborhood to the north, College Hill, which had no college, despite its name, only modest white houses hinting at the white suburbs to come.
In terms of where the body politics is at, these are modest policies which hint at big lofty ideas.
Clementi and Ravi seem to have responded in similarly exaggerated ways to perceived hints of modest roots in the other.
Currency traders said that they perceived hints of modest intervention to cushion the decline by the Reserve Bank of India, the country's central bank, which acts through state-controlled commercial banks when it does intervene so as to camouflage its activity.
The scarcity of credit not only hurts homeowners but also has broad economic repercussions at a time when consumer spending and employment are showing modest signs of improvement, hinting at a recovery after two years of recession.
Girls who like their handbags can still use them but leave the big ugly backpacks and messenger bags at home please (Yes, I know they are a staple of a traditional nerds wardrobe but they take the whole hint of modest sexiness away from the look!).
