Sentence examples for modesty from inspiring English sources

The stealth isn't about false modesty, Smyth is sure of her ability: the first women to run a three-star restaurant in the UK, scorer of a perfect 10 in last year's Good Food Guide.

And as motorists sounded their car horns in an impromptu chorus, Sturgeon affected modesty at the critical applause and poll-topping ratings her performance achieved.

But perhaps people don't want modesty in their politicians.

"That's not a false modesty - it's really true, especially at the youth level".

"The positioning of this ban is that women drivers somehow breach the values of modesty, which is absurd, as by any objective standpoint there is nothing at all immodest about a women driving a car".

Rabbis from the marginal Hasidic sect Belz have told women in Stamford Hill who drive that they go against "the traditional rules of modesty in our camp".

This is compounded further by traditional cultural modesty and a lack of female technicians to fit the equipment.

She has what the French call pudeur – modesty and discretion".

And it's not false modesty.

A woman tried to hold down her skirt in a last desperate attempt to protect her modesty.

She proclaims fiscal responsibility and wants to restore Slovakia's reputation as "Europe's tiger".In this section Terror at the airport Biffo biffed Uncharacteristic modesty Magnificent no more A bad week Lonely tigress The trouble with Flanders ReprintsThe trouble is that her political skills may not match her vision.