In a modest tone, Varmus places his work within a dense web of related discoveries.
When pressed, and not in an auditorium before a loaded slide show, he adopts a more modest tone.
Still, Ross's wry, intelligent and modest tone alone is an appealing contrast to the Bush administration's bombast, which it has only recently begun to temper.
In keeping with the modest tone of his inauguration, Mr. Cuomo's formal ceremony will take place on Saturday inside the State Capitol in front of about 175 invited guests, family members and reporters.
While I eyeballed this instrument, having just come in from my visit with the chiropractor, a brisk, modest tone began, and the tiny screen showed ten digits I didn't recognize.
Instead, the Billfold accused Williams of suffering from Impostor Syndrome, going so far as to mock her modest tone on Twitter before arrogantly telling the correspondent how wrong she was about her own life choices.
His amorality is all the more shocking for its modest tone, and for coming from a man capable of noticing, as he walks through the calm night of St. Nils, the "occasional faint crunch of a snail" mingled with the "shush" of fallen leaves.
"Oh, yes," she said in a modest tone.
Is there anything better than when Bill Kristol (in his most humble and modest tone) lectures us plebeians about the dangers of arrogance and especially the perils of being so lacking in self awareness that people can actually be completely unaware of their arrogance?
Front National leader Jean-Marie le Pen, currently scoring around 13percentnt in the opinion polls, had launched himself on a campaign of modest rhetoric, toning down on the anti-immigrant slogans.
