(It takes us a while to realize that Micky, tacit and modest, is sitting right next to him).
But we tended to run into him in a modest coffeehouse, sitting over a cup of coffee and talking to the waiter.
At their daily briefing on Friday, Vatican press officials showed silent video images of the modest accommodations — a sitting room with a table and facing chairs, a single bed with a wrought-iron headboard, a small television (which will presumably be removed or deactivated), unadorned white walls.
Folkestone, another once glorious seaside town that fell on hard times as visitors abandoned it, is having significant success with its programme of cultural regeneration, although, unlike Margate, it worked hard at a grassroots level before it started indulging its edifice complex (and Quarterhouse is relatively modest in size, sitting snugly on a town street).
Heritability seems to have a modest role in sitting time with no difference by sex.
The offerings may be bare bones — the modest-size television sitting right atop the desk, the fridge empty of any minibar offerings — but the personal touches of the decorator are evident and appealing.
Across the hall from the modest room where scholars, sitting at plain wooden desks arranged in rows, pore over the ancient manuscripts, workers listening to boom boxes were putting the finishing touches on the Manuscript Reference Reading Room, the headquarters of the Reference Library.
In New York, major stock indexes dipped briefly after the report was issued but quickly bounced back and were sitting on modest gains.
I will never understand why dressing up in a modest J.Crew dress and sitting in the first pew at church trumps participating in a climate march, or why accepting doctrine on faith alone beats independent thinking, questioning and customizing one's religious life.
