Word: modeste
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...modest, but Johnson’s family is assuredly...
...Henderson, however, is modest about his achievements and refuses to speculate on his future in the Navy. He will only offer one prediction: “I guess I will stay in the Navy until I cannot contribute anymore...
...pretty much babysitting someone else’s work all the time,” Minahan says. “Even on the modest elementary school level, being creative on a regular basis is pretty gratifying...
...Those small-town characters were the stuff of his novels. They were enchanting; but all their ambitions or philoso-phical inclinations were mocked by their modest means and their limited world. That was the basis of much of Narayan's human comedy, and it was like an extension of his religious sense...
...more obsessed gamble is taking place across America at the Integrated Media Systems Center at the University of Southern California. The center resides in a squat, red brick building, well baked by the Los Angeles sun, whose modest exterior camouflages the far-out work that's happening within. The group is focused on a multimedia effort to bring virtual people together for lifelike encounters. The project is fusing several state-of-the-art technologies - 3-D facial modeling and animation, video compression, spatially placed sound - to create a full-fledged virtual world...