These were so modest as to be invisible.
Before then, the coverage was so modest as to be undetectable by the Project for Excellence in Journalism, which surveys 52 news outlets each week to produce a weekly study of news coverage.
The town priest (Jim Norton) grumbles amusingly when his parishioners do the Charleston and the Shim Sham to Jimmy's jazz records there, but otherwise its programme of activities appears to be so modest and positive that it seems absurd for anyone to object.
Despite her Jewish heritage, Salomon was admitted, two years later, to the prestigious Academy of Arts, in Berlin; according to the admissions committee's notes, she was deemed to be so "modest and reserved" that she would not "present a danger to the Aryan male students".
But Silver, managing director of Washingtons Core Capital Partners, isnt so modest when it comes to making calls on the outlook for technology spending and Uncle Sams IT budgets.
But if they are unable to reach an agreement on something so modest yet so clearly beneficial to international commerce, any global trade deal at all might be impossible.
Why - some people demand to know - does he insist on pretending to be so modest and ordinary when everyone can see he's a famous celebrity and a national treasure with an OBE and a houseful of awards for his radio shows.
Why did you choose to be so modest in your forthcoming memoir, "Counselor: A Life at the Edge of History," in which you decline to take the least credit for anything he achieved?
"I felt that since I was looking for something so modest, I wasn't going to be whipsawed if and when the prices really dropped.
So modest that it almost refuses to be art at all, and so generous that it serves as a utopian call for a better civic life, this is a radical and beautiful work.
