Sentence examples for fraudulent modesty from inspiring English sources

And there you have the ambition of the short story, the terrible ambition that lies behind its fraudulent modesty: to body forth the whole world.

And there you have the ambition of the short story, the terrible ambition that lies behind its fraudulent modesty: to body forth the whole world". As last month's debate on this blog about the "Great Novel" status of Jonathan Franzen's Freedom underlined, novels that seek to contain multitudes, to embody a particular society at a particular time, seem doomed to fall short.

"The modesty of life": friends, family, culture, a rich private existence cultivated against the fraudulent and intrusive state.

To modesty?

Exhibiting modesty.

The modesty.

Modesty, too.

Fraudulent incapacity benefit claims?

Fraudulent documents.

Epistemic modesty defended.

It comes from modesty.