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That's our modest role.
It happened to be down at a place called Stennis Space Center right on the Gulf Coast, so we lived in a little town called Waveland, Mississippi, nice modest house, and as you can see, it's up against a storm surge.
While many of these diseases are thought to be treatable by correcting the underlying mutation in even a modest fraction of cells in an organ, delivering molecular machines like base editors into cells in a human being can be challenging.
And we started what became "Europe Talks" as a really modest editorial exercise.
And I should say, I think this is a rather modest prediction.
In Madurai, a reward that is modest in North American standards, is more meaningful there.
And I heard this story the first time a couple of years ago from a very modest family of immigrants from Kosovo in Switzerland.
The worst interviews that you can ever have are with people who are modest.
Never ever get up on a stage with somebody who's modest, because all of these people have been assembled to listen to them, and they sit there and they say, "Aw, shucks, it was an accident."
I never would ever agree to interview a modest person.
Because primarily of the power of the Internet, people of modest means can band together and amass vast sums of money that can change the world for some public good if they all agree.
But for other tumors and cancer types, the improvements have only been modest.
We made a modest proposal to the NSF.
Its modest nervous system consists of just 300 neurons.
Frankie's drumming, a modest dream in the book, becomes his full passion in the movie (probably because Sinatra is a musician).
The entirety of the film's watchable value is garnered through modest suspense over whether and when the partners' family members will say something discouraging about their lesbian relationship.
The film itself was made with a modest budget, which explains the limited locales, and the somewhat tedious screenplay that manages to do very little with quite an interesting premise.
A modest budget ($4 million, I estimate) studio sequel.
The main actor in the movie is a pompous jackass and both guy and girl in the film are way too modest to be in a film like this.
This movie features several well known actors which I usually like, so I had at least modest expectations when I rented this on DVD.
Secondly, the show's character's are stereo-types (Angelica: white spoilt blond as opposed to Suzie: colored girl from modest family,...) or boring (Tommy, Chuckie) and annoying (Dil).
This TV movie for kids is utterly cheap, concerning acting, character work, credibility, directing and even concerning the modest special effects.
Based on a Ray Bradbury story; a professional photographer(Brian Kerwin)returns to his modest home near a tiny desert town, where most of the citizens wishes he stayed away.
Driving Lessons is a modest, simple film which draws you in right from the start.
Containing Billy's famous humor, this more modest comedy with heavy bittersweet overtones is a big departure, pleasantly unexpectedly so for Billy Crystal.
It was not a big-budget production and its premise, middle-age amateur jazz musicians get an unexpected professional engagement at a Catskills-like resort, seems rather modest.
What's not modest is the film's success.
Mr. Bell is far too modest in his film commentary.
David Arquette is amusing in modest role as Drew's brother, who also enrolls to help out sis.
How director's Andrew Traucki and David Nerlich wring as much suspense and terror from such a modest situation is amazing to watch unfold.
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