Sentence examples for display of modesty from inspiring English sources

Mr. Rove's initial display of modesty was understandable.

Ms. Hoffman, who appears far along in a pregnancy, even tosses off her costume at the end of the show to pose naked with no display of modesty.

In an uncharacteristic display of modesty Paul Krugman an academic who has made capital controls fashionable admits that he "is not exactly clear" about what a new financial architecture should look like.

When this mountain-music string-band repertory ("Soldier's Joy," "Foggy Mountain Top," "The Banks of the Ohio") is played (respectively) by a 79-year-old, an 80-year-old, and a 49-year-old who worships them to the point of suppressing his own hyperactive technique, it becomes a display of modesty, rather than the bravado you'd expect from the title of the CD/DVD/ PBS television special bonanza.

The site is pay-to-play, but in a teaser video on the homepage, you can see a pair of women in ankle-length skirts and headscarves (a display of modesty) making out and then undressing each other.

For the present, my steady partner is going to be mystery!" Nancy was a moralizer and her displays of modesty a bit too showy.

BERLIN — Since being elected in March, Pope Francis has quickly made a mark with his displays of modesty, eschewing lavish papal apartments for a spartan guesthouse in Vatican City, wearing simple vestments, carrying his own bag and preaching against a Roman Catholic Church hierarchy that he said was overly insular and too often led by "narcissists".

Waugh rationalized his decision to leave Oxford before graduating (he most likely would have been kicked out anyway) with a kind of hubris that could only come from a 21-year-old whose first book was about to be published: he "foresaw that the role of a published novelist among the other undergraduates would be an odious one, requiring endless displays of modesty and self-effacement".

Both involve drama and poignancy — qualities that fit the Court better than a display of false modesty.

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"It's not that I am a good debater," he said in a display of false-modesty that didn't fool anybody.