Jesse sang the praises of Cavett the one-time comedian and made not-so-modest mention of the fact that Dick complimented his performance once he got off stage.
He's too modest to mention the Estria Foundation (estria.org), set up with Jeremy LaTrasse, co-founder of Twitter.
(Everybody says this about Ferguson,that he has given a lot of money to the area, but is too modest to mention it. In this respect, it's a very courtly, 18th-century sort of a politics).
Summerskill is modest when I mention it, but proud of the gains made in the nine years he's been chief executive of Stonewall.
Perhaps he is again being modest, omitting to mention that Yahoo did acquire, in Viaweb, some of the most talented hackers in the history of the Internet, including Graham himself.
And at a time when the economy is melting and one-time bankers are on the street, Sarva is betting customers will embrace the no-fuss simplicity not to mention modest price of the Peek.
Despite these being large doses, America's per-user consumption is less than half of the UK's, not to mention modest compared to its use of drugs like benzodiazepines and opioids.
The dean described the prince as "modest" and also mentioned his service and faith.
Far from being able to make up for these shortcomings, the commission does mention some modest improvements such as the appointment of magistrates or reducing their workload.
Nowhere do they mention how modest current benefits are.
