Perhaps because of this, Liu, like many Chinese tycoons, is careful to seem modest when speaking about his success.
Gethard is modest when speaking about what change he thinks he can affect but one quick look at the online community surrounding his eponymous show The Chris Gethard Show and the profound effect he's already had on fans is hard to miss.
But, wisely, he resists a didactic tone, concentrating instead on describing small plots whose modest beauties speak volumes.
Verrelle's budget was small and his agenda modest: he spoke of having decreased the town's debt (he'd served a rosé sangria rather than champagne at the annual New Year's reception), solved its trash problem (he was now leading a campaign against dog poop), and hired four new police officers ("including two maghrébins" — North Africans — "who are excellent").
Witty, direct and modest, Tyler speaks expansively but not extraneously.
Known to be introspective, independent and modest, she spoke of her talented siblings in 1999, saying: "Vanessa was the one expected to be the great actress.
Kennett therein explains, in a sometimes dubious Freudian context, why the ostensibly modest Sherman spoke and acted in such a self-serving, contradictory and often childish fashion, and why he turned cold and uncaring to his family and friends during their deepest personal crises and losses.
Cordero is soft-spoken, modest and speaks Spanish primarily in contrast to Ramsey.
It would cost the Ministry of Justice more than that (relatively speaking) modest sum if just one in every 445 of those youngsters denied legal aid ended up in prison.
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