"In its pilot, it achieved its modest goals without leaning too far into pompousness...or slicing off too much ham".
On a self-released CD from 2002, Ms. Miranda had more modest ambitions, her style leaning more heavily on jazz and folk.
Ross Eisenbrey, vice president of the Economic Policy Institute, a think tank influential on Democratic policymaking, told HuffPost that his talks with White House personnel lead him to believe they're leaning toward a modest threshold of perhaps $42,000.
It was easy to imagine families like the Zhangs in their modest homes all across China, on their couches, leaning forward, galvanized by the realization that it was time for the basketball games and the Beijing Games to begin.
She speaks carefully, sitting upright and leaning slightly forward at a small table in a neat and modest White House garden.
On choice nights, a bluegrass band sets up in the back, and enthusiasts can gather around or climb up to the second floor – a modest loft space – and watch the band from above while leaning on the railings.
"I think I might have created a monster," Riley says, leaning back on the couch in Blackstreet's modest dressing room.
The economist keeps a modest office in MIT's Building E52, where the most prominent object is often a bicycle leaning against one wall.
Leaning back in his chair, the heavy Fairfax Avenue traffic churning outside the window of his modest office, Robert Ginty looks up at portraits of Samuel Beckett, George Bernard Shaw and other Irish scribes on the wall above his desk.
She starts leaning back".
