They involve a handful of people, mainly young ones, or ones who age in a manner that's roughly in step with Hong himself, who meet by chance, reconnect, couple off, split up, drink heavily, embarrass themselves, go away, come back — they live modest but turbulent lives of great emotional intensity but little grand drama.
During the nineteen-twenties and thirties, when Pound, Hemingway, and Stein were in Paris, they lived on modest remittances from home which, translated into francs, bankrolled lazy afternoons in the Jardin du Luxembourg and giddy evenings on the Boulevard Montparnasse.
I have met extremely rich artists who live modest ordinary lives because what matters to them is their work – the art itself.
They lived in a modest, 968-square-foot apartment in an unfashionable quarter of Belgrade.
They lived in a modest house in a village out of a fairy tale, worked their fields, took whatever work they could find to raise and educate their three young children.
Ms Lewthwaite was still at primary school when her family moved to Aylesbury, where they lived in a modest terraced house.
They lived in a modest, rented town house in Redlands.
They lived in a modest, rented townhouse in Redlands.
In Tokmok, they lived in a modest brick house before moving to a more spacious, two-storey house opposite School No. 1 in the town centre, where Tamerlan and his two sisters studied.
The couple have said they live relatively modest lives, given their wealth.
