"In the most modest of ways, I was one of those people who tried to answer his call".
In an age when many prefer to listen to music over the Web or by satellite, Radio Caroline would like to be rewarded for its contribution to British popular culture in the most modest of ways: an AM radio designation in the southeast of England, where it was conceived.
In the final silence after this statement, I sense an unspoken refutation or qualification, which is the fact of Silvestre's life, a hard-working, responsible life built, in the most modest, limited, practical way, on love.
It is the most modest of vicarious thrills, a way for Moras to feel a small link to Major League Baseball.
The reassurance is textured: Smith's is no simple rejection of elitism, but rather, a promise to tackle privilege in the most modest, incremental and – fundamentally – unarguable way.
'Monsieur Lazhar' (Canada) "Monsieur Lazhar" is in many ways the most modest and restrained of the nominees, shot with a virtually unknown ensemble featuring children and the Algerian comedian Mohamed Said Fellag in his first dramatic role, as a refugee in Montreal who steps in when a teacher commits suicide.
The Republicans in Congress have stood in the way of this most modest of pay hikes for the nation's low-wage workers.
But basic electronic sensors and controls have already made their way into the most modest successors to the Beetle and other economy cars.
In a similar way, they predict, the most modest disturbance can disrupt the world: A small change in DNA, hormones, immune systems or software programs will do the trick.
