Vaughn's parents were tenant farmers who worked modest corn and tobacco plots in the Burkesville hills.
The small Morandi paintings of groups of bottles gave Mr. Kulicke the confidence to work small with modest subjects.
And most of that work is modest in its materials and size, scaled to small studios.
Vietnam's reclamation work remains modest by Chinese standards, however.
The costs of the added coverage in group plans at work appear modest.
Antonio Paolucci, director of the Vatican Museums, said the work was "modest" and not of Caravaggio's quality.
If it does, most people expect to find a work of modest historical interest, rather than the secret of life.
Nor does it offer Japanese people much cause for optimism that the daily grind of hard work and modest pay will get any better.
He has probably locked up a place in the 2013 rotation, so Collins's request for his off-season work was modest.
He's talking about crime rates, but on the evidence of his own work, that modest friction seems most likely to be helpful in deterring some suicides instead.
The Owenses' other work — funding modest businesses, beginning a program to educate children about the wildlife near their villages — seemed to be paying more impressive dividends.
