The poet Wordsworth's first Lake District home was the very modest Dove Cottage in Grasmere, on a small lake northwest of Windermere.
My favourites have always been mountain passes: the modest Lake District, or the dizzying Rockies or Himalayas.
The temperature increase a summertime warming of about a third of a degree per decade over 25 years is "pretty modest," says lake biologist Peter Leavitt of the University of Regina in Canada, who did not participate in the study.
Known for its lakes, modest tree-covered mountains, outdoor recreation and a slightly dated lifestyle, Otis does feel like the kind of place where Ozzie and Harriet or the Cleavers would have bought a second home decades ago.
There's barely a scrap of space to sit, let alone bask, on this modest pontoon on the lake.
On Seneca Lake, a modest cottage with 30 to 50 feet of lake frontage starts at about $200,000, and $1 million can buy a regal villa with at least four bedrooms, an acre of land and a garage.
The story, given the whopping sources (The Book of Job, the work of Thomas Hobbes, etc) is actually quite a lean beast: Nikolay (Aleksei Serebryakov) lives with his second wife, Lilya Elena Lyadovaa from Zvyagintsev's Elena), and moody teenage son in a modest villa overlooking a lake.
Expect to wait again before being allowed to enter a modest screening room to see "Black Lake", a specially commissioned video installation (ie, a music video) featuring a song from "Vulnicura", Bjork's emotionally devastating new album.
The vibe jumps from sun-soaked folk (the song "Johnny Utah" is like floating in a warm lake) to full-throated Modest Mousey shout-rock to striking moments of crisp, animated peace.
The rise of riesling in the Finger Lakes is only a modest victory over hybrid grapes.
Unlike the audacious dream of the founders to build a sporting paradise, the equipment available is almost charmingly modest: horseshoes and croquet; strolling along the lake is by far the most popular activity.
