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modesty

Modesty is the attitude of not talking about or not trying to make people notice your abilities and achievements. Two things were obvious: his intellectual honesty and the modesty with which he spoke. Without false modesty he knew he was the best teacher in the school. If you dress with, modesty you cover most of your body and do not wear sexy clothes or bright colours. There were also all sorts of rules about modesty in dress, you know, no pants for women.

modesty

freedom from vanity or conceit formality and propriety of manner

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Simple sentences

His modesty prevented him from making his feelings known to her.
Modesty is the art of allowing others to discover how important you are.
You're not exactly modesty personified.
This is no time for modesty.
False modesty gets on my nerves a lot.
In modesty, no one beats me.
His modesty is worth respecting.
For, as blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.
With a high, closed collar, figure-hugging cut, and large slits at either side of a straight skirt, the qipao is unique in its ability to communicate both modesty and sensuousness.
Hermes gave humans modesty and justice.

Movie subtitles

Modesty not her strongest virtue, Nana returns to bask in her triumph.
No. - Oh, modesty, modesty.
Modesty compelled me to play the Good Samaritan in secret.
Modesty forbids.
Believe me, my dear Miss Elizabeth, your modesty does you no disservice in my eyes.
Of course, I know that my cousin's refusal naturally springs from her bashful modesty.
With Lizzie, that does not mean bashful modesty!
Kindliness and sincerity. and, if you'll forgive me, modesty. mean more to a husband than all the wit and beauty in the world.
Have you no modesty left in you?
Without knocking, and wheres your modesty?
This is no time for modesty!
She tried to teach us a lesson by acting the picture of modesty!
Sometimes I wonder if you're not giving in to false modesty when talking about yourself.
I always consider the modesty of my patients.
But the day I decided to become an artiste, I sacrificed modesty.
I even understand a lady's modesty.
Sir, have some common sense. Or at least some modesty!
He's right. Then I can give a speech on the modesty of the triumphant.
Yes, a shame for my modesty and my health.
Suit the action to the word, the word to the action, with this special observance - that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature.
Such an act that blurs the grace and blush of modesty, calls virtue hypocrite, takes off the rose from the fair forehead of an innocent love and sets a blister there, makes marriage vows as false as dicers' oaths.
You lack modesty, my child.
It's not modesty. I don't try to kid myself.
At least I can console myself with the thought that your modesty matches your beauty.
Kindliness and sincerity, and if you'll forgive me, modesty, mean more to a husband than all the wit and beauty in the world.
That's not good for my modesty or my health.
Modesty.
Modesty aside, you were a great success.
Come on, no need for false modesty here.
When that charlatan spoke words of love to you in Oscar's name. and you answered with such modesty and trepidation. it made me sick.
Let them wear just enough for modesty.
Sam Griffin, you haven't got the modesty of a hog!
Lolotte is like that, she has no modesty at all.
Kominek, no false modesty.

News and current affairs

Modesty is a virtue in private life.
Good science recognizes its limitations, but the prophets of rational expectations have usually shown no such modesty.
Today, that house's extreme modesty still surprises visitors.
Americans have few choices but to discover a form of modesty appropriate to the country's reduced status in the eyes of the world.
The longer-range consequence of this new modesty should be for Americans to become enthusiastic supporters not only of the UN but of the International Criminal Court.
But we also need modesty about ourselves and our societies.
And if overconfidence is so dangerous, can restraint and modesty be taught to those who do not have it?
But, while such hedging is natural in world politics, modesty is important for both sides.
Sadly, this newfound modesty, so necessary for understanding other cultures and traditions, threatens to veer into relativism and a questioning of the very idea of truth in human affairs.
To understand Zidane's popularity, one need only set his modesty and attention to others against the arrogance and indifference that characterize the behavior of so many other celebrities, including football players.
There is more rigor and openness under the Northern Lights, and this is precisely the combination we need, with its mixture of modesty towards others and ambition towards ourselves.
But, as the region increasingly becomes trapped in a race to the abyss, the rare combination of courage, modesty, and lucidity that he embodied is badly needed.
But even an exercise in modesty and realism requires strong alliances, with partners ready for sacrifices.
This calls for more modesty and restraint in determining the highest salaries, not for moral reasons but for the sustainability of the system.
Today, Americans and Europeans alike must demonstrate modesty.
The places of power in France do not encourage modesty.
Arrogance has replaced sophisticated modesty.
Chirac's indictment is remarkable for the very modesty of his supposed crime: he is suspected of having asked city bureaucrats to work for his political party and run his electoral campaigns when he was mayor of Paris.

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