It may sound paradoxical, but it's not surprising that when Labour ministers queue up to tell modest women to take their veils off, there is a special affection for a prince whose public utterances on the subject have been marked by a sort of bumbling Islamophilia.
I expected "The 100" to sand off any potential rough edges, to tell modest adventure stories and to create situations in which it made sense for teenagers to kiss, and it does all of that.
"Don't be fooled by them, my friends," Mr. McCain told a modest lunchtime crowd, shivering in the late-winter wind while straining to hear his words on the muffled sound system.
"I'm going to be here so often, I'm going to be sweating Buffalo wings," Mr. Lazio told a modest but lustily cheering crowd in a terminal of the Buffalo International Airport.
"You see, Senator Obama believes in redistributing wealth, not in policies that grow our economy and create jobs," Mr. McCain, the Republican presidential nominee, told a modest crowd under crisp sunshine at Everglades Lumber, where two people held up a sign that said, "Stop Socialism, Vote McCain".
"Sitting at home was pretty much the last place I wanted to be," she told a modest crowd here after arriving on stage to James Brown's "I Feel Good".
When he arrived in Karachi, Musharraf told a modest-sized welcoming crowd that he had come to "save Pakistan".
In spite of claims to the contrary, Transport for London's own monitoring reports tell a modest story.
The words, which tell a modest story of burgeoning friendship and two bears swept along by childhood exploration, join in buoyant harmony with Savage's soft lines and gentle forms.
Sadly, ruthlessness was not present when Jake Lipman adapted Elinor Lipman's novel The Inn At Lake Devine into a two and a half hour play that sags under the weight of so much material to tell so modest and familiar a tale.
