Sentence examples for modest moral from inspiring English sources

Holly Burling, a pantry chef, and the only woman working that night, had a look of modest moral confusion.

The show itself featured genteel programming; one J. Walter Thompson executive called it "realism with a modest moral".

After all those decades acting the part of a modest, moral man, he put his own reputation above the welfare of children.

It is hard to predict if viewers will similarly rally around "Zohan" and its modest moral that Israelis and Arabs are more alike than dissimilar.

Where Evans draws on Kierkegaard, Bishop builds on James's argument in "The Will to Believe" to develop what he terms a "modest, moral coherentist, 'supra-evidential' fideism" (3).

If you are a woman with a small bust (less than 34 inches), the first impression someone is likely to have of you is that you are relatively intelligent, competent, ambitious, modest and moral, but if you have a big bust (37 inches or more), you will be perceived — at least at first glance — as being unintelligent, incompetent, lazy, immodest and immoral (Journal of Social Psychology, 1980).

What Hobbes meant by that claim has been a topic of scholarly debate ever since; suffice it to say that he thought that there were modest but real moral limits on what the sovereign could legitimately demand of its subjects.

For that matter, so was his moral compass: modest and loyal, almost to a fault, he always esteemed the church, and, uncommon not just in a French king but in most kings, was ill at ease with his father's many infidelities".

Yet his imagination could also be less modest: a gaggle of moral philosophers is trapped beneath the earth in a smoke-filled chamber; they talk at cross purposes, and refuse to take the way out into the open air that he alone has discovered.

Females with smaller breasts are perceived not only as moral and modest but also as competent, ambitious, and intelligent.

At four in the afternoon on the Fourth of July, ten adventurous women and a modest crowd of witnesses and moral supporters gathered at Hollister's only bowling alley for a preliminary round of the Hollister Independence Rally pageant.