Sentence examples for immodest acts from inspiring English sources
Benedetta Carlini, seventeenth-century Italian Theatine abbess, "Immodest Acts: the Life of a Lesbian Nun in Renaissance Italy," by Judith C. Brown.
An adaptation of Judith C. Brown's book Immodest Acts, the film centres on the life of 17th-century lesbian nun Benedetta Carlini (played by Virginie Efira) who experiences disturbing visions, and enters a love affair with a fellow nun at her convent.
It had withheld a license for serving kosher food in the hotel where she was to perform because it found such acts immodest and immoral.
Allowing himself to be photographed nude from the waist up, in clear defiance of the 1905 Flannel and Wool and Earmuff Act banning any immodest public depiction of the Canadian body.
The nineteen-year-old international music phenomenon was found guilty of six offenses against Canadian behavioral norms — actions that probably would not even be noticed if he were American: Allowing himself to be photographed nude from the waist up, in clear defiance of the 1905 Flannel and Wool and Earmuff Act banning any immodest public depiction of the Canadian body.
In a number of plays, ranging from Tom Stoppard's "The Invention of Love" to Eugene O'Neill's "Long Day's Journey Into Night," Leonard has played a kind of boy-man; awkward at expressing desire, he needs someone who's emotionally immodest to force him into the act of love.
(Even with the increased freedom here, acting is often seen as immodest).
A refreshingly immodest story.
(One can be silently immodest).
