"It will be step by step, with modest positive gestures like the President's speech where we can," the official said.

"It finds me," said Pitt, throwing up his hands in a modest gesture.

Is it acceptable for China to refuse even such a modest gesture?

Gennadius, with a much more modest gesture, called the doctor off.

For the moment, he was grateful to have received even that modest gesture of human contact.

In concrete terms, those visits produced only modest gestures and assurances.

Carrington makes a modest gesture, not owning to such insight.

He nodded, inviting waves of vertigo even with that modest gesture.

Coming after nearly a decade of cold war hostilities, the modest gesture ushered in an extraordinary new relationship.

To be sure, both countries have recently made modest gestures in the direction of reducing the nuclear shadow over the world.