This sounds like a startlingly modest matter to resolve.
Today Mr. Frank is viewed as a pioneer of the snapshot aesthetic, a term coined in the late 1960s to denote the spontaneous style and modest subject matter that came to dominate black-and-white photography of that period.
The hint of poignancy in this modest affair wasn't simply a matter of the setting.
While cats are curious creatures generally, they are pretty modest on matters of personal health, perhaps sitting quietly in a corner when they're feeling off color.
The films are worldly and often formally sophisticated but also modest and matter-of-fact, made of materials close to hand with methods more likely to be efficient than showy.
"Poison Friends" is too modest and matter-of-fact to achieve the devastating emotional impact of Mr. Desplechin's best films, but Mr. Bourdieu allows an aura of psychological complexity to envelop what turns out to be a fairly schematic story.
But as an extraordinary exhibition of prints and drawings at Adelson Galleries attests, because of her rigorous and adventurous approach to the medium, her prints exert an impact far greater than their deceptively modest scale and subject matter might lead the casual observer to expect.
Nick Bridgland, of English Heritage, said: "Lowry's work is closely associated with ordinary life in the north of England and his house, traditional and modest, echoes the subject matter of his work.
Salon.com writer Schuyler Velasco praised Sister Wives for introducing viewers to unfamiliar subject matter and called it "refreshingly modest" considering its controversial subject matter.
In fiscal terms these proposals are relatively modest; politically, they matter.
