It is perhaps a result of the modesty and self-effacement of Aardman's totemic figures: founders Peter Lord and David Sproxton, Wallace and Gromit creator Nick Park, who joined in 1985, and early hire Richard Goleszowski – "employee No 1", in Aardman lore – who developed the Shaun TV series and is credited as joint director on the feature.
So the fact that he still sticks to an estimate of only 30,000 dead Iraqis, even when a recently published study in the Lancet suggests he's slaughtered at least 655,000, can only be the result of his extraordinary modesty.
One result of this wise modesty, when coupled to a large, restless intelligence like Tolstoy's, is a very large novel, the form of the book loyally obeying the limitlessness of the inquiry: many stories, many lives, many repeated attempts at explanation.
But that is the result of his natural modesty, rather than any underlying anxiety.
But Obama grasps this, and sometimes the result of his politics of modesty has been disheartening.
The result leaves some in China to wonder: perhaps, in an act of modesty, Mr Xi voted against himself.
Perhaps that modesty is a result of Mr. Kelly's growing up the 10th of 12 children.
Do not waste time because of modesty.
Robbie ducked his head out of modesty.
Overall, there is a sense of modesty.
This was a charming bit of modesty.
