But his few modest tricks for black swan hunters are worth noting, as follows: 1) Make a distinction between positive contingency and negative, and get yourself into the swims of life where massive positive contingency might occur, ie movie-making, book-publishing, biotech research... but beware that as you are now in Extremistan the downside is much more monstrous.
From the grandest palazzo to the most modest cottage, visual tricks abound.
When Senator Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island asked whether a more modest weapon might not do the trick, Trotter said, "You can not understand.
Blackburn after Jack Walker have been a club of relatively modest means but they had a trick - one that they shared with Middlesbrough - of performing above themselves against the Premier League's major players.
But to make a more modest use of Vendler's rewriting trick above, what if we kept the same enjambments, syntax, rhyme scheme and basic rhythm — yet changed some of the words?
The second is that the recent appreciation of the pound should help to curb inflationary pressures.This means that fairly modest interest-rate rises should do the trick.
His answer to the first question gave a hint of his modest take on fame: "It is a trick of history," he said, "that determines who ends up playing a pivotal role in one way or another".
Soon Mr. Rayman, a soft-spoken man with a modest smile, was experimenting with his own tricks.
The only "trick" is that one must choose both modest spending cuts and reasonable tax increases.
The trick here is to order the more modest meat and chicken dishes, which start at $10; appetizers, like fried cheese balls, starting at $4; and desserts like flan from $2.50.
