Word: modeste
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...novelist's expectations may be modest, but while writing he can afford to do what a reader does: cast the movie version. Some of Klein's daydreaming proved prescient. "In my mind Libby Holden was Kathy Bates. I was also thinking of Emma Thompson as Susan Stanton--because Emma Thompson can do anything!" On his directors' list were Jonathan Demme (Philadelphia), Michael Apted (Gorillas in the Mist) and, at the top, Mike Nichols...
...sole surviving memento of Boston's days as a Jazz center in the 40's and 50's. Billie Holiday and Branford Marseilles have played here, and Wally's is known locally for its diversity and its low-key atmosphere. It's clearly a treasure of this modest intersection...
Clinton's plan calls for a modest $100 increase in the maximum amount of money available in a Pell grant...
...standards [presented on the survey] were an attempt to get at modest, concrete aspects we could get all the departments to agree should be components of proper advising," Lewis said...
...Iraqis could have a much more democratic, much more free government," Kristol suggested, arguing that the United States has taken a "modest" stance on intervening in the affairs of other nations and that "we could be a much more active force...