Our loss on this side of the ocean: this was an appropriately modest but personable and appealing performance.

About the festival's current dramatic centerpiece, Mr. Barnard is appropriately modest.

Facial expressions became suitably harsh and drapery appropriately modest.

But he made an appropriately modest reply.

That would reduce foot traffic on the sidewalks above and allow the center's street-level structural portion to assume an appropriately modest scale.

The free event was appropriately modest, with the audience sitting on the floor and leaning against walls.

It's an appropriately modest production in reach as well as logistics, and it belongs in an intimate theater like the Cherry Lane.

We think it's an appropriately modest and sensible way to do the final piece of the budget.

That's appropriately modest, a reasonable guideline for step-by-step responses to what actually happens here.

Marketing spend will have been appropriately modest.