Word: modestly
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Kureishi's ambitions and concerns seem modest, however, when held up against those of John Taylor. Though Taylor's milieu is as precious as Kureishi's--middle- to upper-class professionals and intellectuals, this time of the Manhattan variety--Falling, about Taylor's own divorce, manages to embrace, if not resolve, some of the questions gripping many Western societies: Is staying married always good? Is divorce always bad? What's best for the children? How, in the face of personal unhappiness, does one set one's moral compass...
...thin. (A man's connective tissue stretches over the fatty layer more tautly, keeping it smooth.) Losing weight, working out and plastic surgery can help reduce cellulite. But they can't change the underlying structure of a woman's body. And neither can Cellasene. So here's a modest proposal: perhaps it's our attitudes about skin texture that ought to change...
...People in his lab and also his advisers and friends all described him as a very talented, but modest person," Risinger said...
Brian Wilson of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute sees Kamath as "the rare blend of gifted intellect and industry encased within a modest and wonderfully pleasant young...
...matter of his eight previous arrests for drunk driving. The grumbling began later, when the N.Y.P.D. took possession of a 1988 Acura that belonged to librarian Pavel Grinberg. The Polish immigrant, 28, who had been swerving when police pulled him over, was legally drunk at a more modest 0.11 blood-alcohol level. But he had never before been arrested for drunk driving, and he was still relieved...