His recipes marked a change from the style of cookery known in the Middle Ages, to new techniques aimed at creating somewhat lighter dishes, and more modest presentations of pies as individual pastries and turnovers.
We have a modest presentation, we don't have big projections or giant bubbles that we run around in or any of the things that people fill stages up with.
Nor is spirituality a word you associate nowadays with the Salzburg Festival, a once-modest summer presentation of classical music and theater founded in 1920 by the playwright Hugo von Hofmannsthal, the composer Richard Strauss and others, now grown huge and proud.
After a period of more modest presentations by the networks, spectacle is back, Amy Chozick writes, as "the big four broadcast networks — ABC, CBS, Fox and NBC — face more competition than ever.
The emphasis is instead on goofy pageantry (a long chorus line of nuns or cross-dressed men — take your choice — in increasingly outrageous costumes) or more modest presentations that treat musicals with an emotional intimacy usually reserved for drama.
It was a modest return — a presentation of 15 looks on a gold staircase to a standing audience — but very, very Versace: swishing ponytails, smoky eyes, vertiginous heels and lots of sparkle.
We add to this literature by suggesting a series of modest changes to the presentation of the data and to the findings of epidemiological studies that will encourage the accurate use of this information in quantitative risk assessments and, at the same time, benefit those epidemiologists who undertake meta-analyses.
It echoes more lightly but undeniably through this somewhat smaller presentation of more modest works, the first survey of Polke's photographs in New York.
"It's better to be large and to make huge gestures than to be modest and do tiptoeing types of presentation of oneself," he once explained in an interview with the Paris Review.
