Word: modestly
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...rest of the play takes place in the Ekdal apartment, a modest but comfortably homelike apartment of which we see only the kitchen and studio. Here Hjalmer rules as king, with a devoted wife (Karen MacDonald) and adoring daughter Hedvig (Emma Roberts) who lavish their care on him and serve him almost slavishly. Here, too, his aged father (Jerome Kilty) can forget his disgrace in alcohol--when he can get it. There is a storeroom which he has converted into a small forest with a few pine trees and some rabbits, where he can relive his days as a great...
...still have a lot to learn. There's always something that someone else is better at, and that I can learn from," Janowski says in her typical, modest manner...
...modest professor downplayed the significance of his tenure, saying simply that his research will continue on its present path...
Part of the appeal of online music is economic. Electronic mail-order houses are one of the few businesses making money on the Web, and music CDs are among the biggest sellers (along with books, flowers and pornography). Buyers get to sample songs before they purchase, and they enjoy modest discounts (typical price: $9.95 a CD); sellers save a fortune on overhead and can carry a much wider selection of performers. Internet Underground Music Archive www.iuma.com) one of the pioneers in the online-music business, got its start peddling the CDs of unsigned bands that nobody had ever heard...
Popular as some of these treatments are, what they promise is modest: a few years added here and there, and an increased likelihood that those years will be healthy ones. What the new wave of researchers is looking for is life extension that's not so much incremental as exponential. Not just a year here or there, but a doubling or tripling of human life expectancy...