The intercom had been modestly calling attention to itself for several minutes.

In a telephone interview from Melbourne, Mr. Lawrence modestly called it "a little story about a little man."

He modestly calls this speeding-up movement the Malcolm Effect.

This hobby, as Tolkien modestly called it, was his consuming passion, but he never expected it to arouse much interest in others.

The limo rose behind them and whispered off to the parking entrance, and she followed him into the imposing edifice he modestly called home.

The house, built in 1896, is filled with what he modestly calls junk but what most people would call antiques.

"And once people taste what we modestly call the best tasting whole wheat bread on the planet, they are very likely to become steady customers."

We modestly call it the Makerere supercomputer.

Various family members would accompany her, living in the comfortable two-story house she modestly called a "cottage" or "hut".

I've sketched out my own answer, which I modestly call "A Brief Theory of Everything."