Modicum

If I thought there was one modicum of sense in what you are saying I might bother to engage with you in this discussion.

Glen: "I wouldn't be so gloomy, if I were you, Fran. If we give our Adversary credit for even a modicum of intelligence, he'll know we wouldn't give our- operatives, I guess one could call them-any information we considered vital to his interests. He'll know that torture could do him very little good."

Hunger was pushed out of the tall houses, in the wretched clothing that hung upon poles and lines; Hunger was patched into them with straw and rag and wood and paper; Hunger was repeated in every fragment of the small modicum of firewood that the man sawed off; Hunger stared down from the smokeless chimneys, and started up from the filthy street that had no offal, among its refuse, of anything to eat.

He paced the room, kicking aside the goblin's corpse as he passed, and the pictures blurred and burned in his boiling brain: the lake, the shack, and Hogwarts — A modicum of calm cooled his rage now: How could the boy know that he had hidden the ring in the Gaunt shack?

There is necessarily required a certain modicum of antiquity in a race, and the wrinkle of the centuries cannot be improvised.

And others are proud of their modicum of righteousness, and for the sake of it do violence to all things: so that the world is drowned in their unrighteousness.

In her lay a Godframed Godgiven preformed possibility which thou hast fructified with thy modicum of man's work.

By marriage, and by intermarriage among its own kinsmen, it could boast of some connection with the great, of some insanity, and a modicum of idiocy.

I think I had a fair amount of success in this experiment, but it was not without its modicum of the bitter experiences of life.

At the golden fortress of Jaisalmer I sampled the inner life of a woman making mirrorwork dresses and at Khajuraho I was an adolescent village boy, deeply embarrassed by the erotic, Tantric carvings on the Chandela temples standing in the fields, but unable to tear away my eyes ... in the exotic simplicities of travel I was able to find a modicum of peace.

A modicum of truth in this boast but it was the truth of all boasting.