"I took the most modest thing in their closet, and he was like, 'But why?' " Over the course of their hour-long conversation in Los Angeles, conducted against the din of helicopter traffic, two of the city's parallel universes, Hollywood and Art, collided and combined.
The small picture "is such a modest thing" with "an extreme modesty of scale" and "not a huge amount of bravado".
And let me end 2014, the year that revealed to all of us so much more about the hidden world of surveillance that is ours, with my own New Year's wish: if I could be granted one relatively modest thing to end 2014, it would be the release from prison of former Army private Chelsea Manning and former CIA Agent John Kiriakou, and the release from exile of NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden.
It's a modest thing, horizontally oriented in imitation of older palm-leaf manuscripts.
Greek cuisine is a modest thing, fresh ingredients simply prepared with delicious results.
Not he.The budget is therefore a modest thing, seeking to deliver a grab-bag of fairly cheap policy measures in the hope of winning votes (see Bagehot).
Reach is a very modest thing; to qualify, you only have to listen for five minutes in an average week.
Greek cuisine is a modest thing, a fairly limited catalog of simple pleasures, and Avra gives it honest, honorable representation.
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Not he.The budget is therefore a modest thing, seeking to deliver a grab-bag of policy measures at minimal fiscal cost.
