For modest laughs: To the Manner Born, WASP 101, Tickled Pink and Green, Muffy Martini, Pink Washingtoniette, 2PreppyGirls and Summer Is a Verb.
This elicited modest laughs from the audience, which throughout the first half of his speech seemed most intent on listening and drawing his measure.
There are modest laughs in the film but it has a convoluted structure and takes forever to tell a very slight tale of LSD and competing psychics.
There are modest laughs in the film but it has a convoluted structure and takes forever to tell a very slight tale of LSD, competing psychics and McGregor's wary acceptance of this story.
When I joked I thought the island was closed for the season, the usually modest DJ laughed, "It will be when I'm done".
Comically out-of-scale features, such as the bug eyes of the pug, also seem to help, implying as they do that the owner is not only smart enough to get the joke but modest enough to laugh at himself -- or at least at his dog.
In the interview, this self-described "church girl" from Piet Retief, a timber- and paper-producing town near the border with Swaziland, was poised and quick to laugh, modest but quietly confident.
Radcliffe, modest as ever, laughed off the snub and said it didn't bother him.
A desire to please led me to laugh at modest jokes like a parent on the opening night of a school play.
Learn to look modest, to pout, to laugh, to adjust your stockings when you know people are looking but pretend to be trying to do it discreetly, be glamour and class personified.
