modicum

Their response proved that they would rather watch New York disintegrate than allow people who are struggling economically to get even a modicum of relief.

This could get grisly, but let's hope there's a modicum of football played at Hampden.

He also noted the body horror, especially in two “monstrous” birth sequences, providing an adequate scare, and there’s a “modicum of well-done fright effects.”

We realize it’s quaint these days to talk about the Founders, but they granted an unlimited pardon power because they anticipated at least a modicum of presidential restraint.

In any case, it’s very much a work of television — not what I’d call prestige television, despite a modicum of well-done fright effects — just ordinary, workman-like TV, with monsters.