They describe a boundless immodesty redeemed by self-mocking wit on being accused of name-dropping, St John-Stevas is said to have sighed: "The queen said exactly the same to me yesterday".
A deliberate allusion to Karl Marx's magnum opus, it suggests both immodesty and an innate antipathy to markets.
He claims that applying NKS widely could lead to advances not only in mathematics and computing but also physics, biology and even the social sciences".I have come to view NKS as one of the more important single discoveries in the whole history of theoretical science," Dr Wolfram declares in his book with characteristic immodesty.
They describe a boundless immodesty redeemed by self-mocking wit on being accused of name-dropping, St John-Stevas is said to have sighed: "The queen said the exactly same to me yesterday".
Now that its more conservative neighbours, such as Saudi Arabia and Abu Dhabi, are keen to invest more at home, they are learning from Dubai the arts of immodesty and audacity.There are few better tutors than Emaar, one of Dubai's big-three developers, best known for building the Burj Dubai, the world's tallest tower.
That way, she could forget the "immodesty" of what she was doing.
She mystifyingly becomes absorbed in his book, and shows her contempt for her gallivanting friends by briefly mooning at them; unfazed by this casual immodesty, Alfredo too falls deeply in love.
BP sponsored him to attend a Scottish university where, with characteristic immodesty, he mused he had the potential to become chairman of the company.
The local reporters crane forward to catch his gentle voice, and are surprised by the immodesty of the words.
They're in the story, of course, those encounters — there's no story without them — but Luhrmann, a man of his times, has no patience for mystery, no sense of true and brazen immodesty.
In retrospect, her immodesty strikes one as both just and endearing.
