Tackling a 1950's Taboo Where earlier lovelorn columnists like Dorothy Dix had given measured, modest replies to discreet questions about courtship, the new Ann Landers was a wisecracking tough cookie out of Damon Runyon.
It was a winningly modest reply.
At an Ethiopian restaurant, Calvino, fielding a question about his WW2 experiences, made a modest reply that left out the youthful drama that I believe shaped the course of his writing.
Dr. Islam gives a modest reply when asked about how he stays sane with everything going on in his life.
Blasco gives a characteristically modest reply: "I just run my lab and make the projects work for the students," while also doing work that is "of interest to my colleagues".
Levi was too modest to reply, but he must have been doing something funny because I heard giggles in the background.
Openers Chris Rogers (34 no) and Dawid Malan (33) batted sensibly with the weather forecast in mind in reply to the home side's modest total of 248-9.
In reply to a follow-up question from the former Labour chancellor Alistair Darling, Hammond said he is a great believer in the "Eddington principle" that modest, easily deliverable projects are often the most worthwhile.
As such he should be above systems and stReplyres, and notosubordinate to them".
A Reply to Niall Ferguson".
