While apparently modest in its initial impact, it breaks new ground.
"In Real Life" is modest in its scope, but it illustrates a specific time and place and profession, evocatively.
While WSSD in comparison with Rio was more modest in its immediate achievements, it nevertheless resulted in placing sustainable development back on the political and public agenda.
If there is nothing formally to distinguish "The Kids Are Alright" from that mass of American sitcoms, if it is modest in its ambitious and familiar in its beats, it has energy, plenty of well-milled jokes and a fine cast of actors that sit convincingly in their parts from the start.
It's modest in its experiments, never forgoing an accessible ear for the sake of being difficult".
It's one of only two buildings he did in the United States, and -- though quite modest in its scale and construction -- it's an undoubted masterpiece.
And though it had a big cast and a ton of scenes, it was modest in its presentation — more a series of spontaneous sketches than giant production numbers.
It's understandable, of course, that it's fairly modest in its projections.
It is, however, modest in its aspirations, partly in deference to the Constitution.
According to Deng, it should be humble and modest in its foreign policy, "hide its light under a bushel," and "bide its time". But the time has now come, in Xi's view, and he said the Middle Kingdom is ready to "take center stage in the world". Xi's speech is important because this party congress made clear that he is no ordinary leader.
