OUR TOWN David Cromer, who also directed "Adding Machine," staged a modest but wonderfully resonant production of Thornton Wilder's evergreen at a funky theater in Chicago.
Our income is modest, but wonderfully adequate for us two, since we have paid off our mortgage; evidently we are representative of our lucky generation, who are more prosperous in age than ever before.
"Jennings was trying to capture the very nature of being British and being at war, and possibly being invaded, and it captures that wonderfully," he explains, "my intentions were much more modest.
To finish, a slab of Piemontese chocolate bonet (£5), a modest, blancmange-like milky pudding, is outclassed by a wonderfully smooth caramel ice-cream.
Originally written for piano, and based on a series of watercolour drawings by his friend Victor Hartman, Modest Mussorgsky's suite Pictures at an Exhibition lends itself wonderfully to orchestral arrangement.
Olivia Thirlby, as the psychic Anderson, gives the film its modest heart, but there's no human context for Karl Urban's growling and wonderfully inscrutable Dredd, and he never removes his mask: he's Batman without the Bruce Wayne.
"Though the initial images of flight are wonderfully rendered," Manohla Dargis wrote in The Times in May, "the movie remains bound by convention, despite even its modest 3-D depth".
In some cases, they are modest electronic travel storefronts that one might ordinarily pass by, but that open onto an elegant and wonderfully user-friendly atmosphere.
