She was wearing her abaya, the cloak Saudi women wear to preserve their modesty, though, as it turned out, she needn't have bothered.
He was shrewd, subtle in his field-placings, charismatic, and rejoiced mightily with his team-mates when opposition wickets fell.It was his modesty, though, that made him unusual in any sport.
Though her modesty was protected well enough, the display was an eye-opener for Pops.
Though no modesty committee was overtly involved, there has been anger over ultra-Orthodox zealots who spit on and insulted an 8-year-old girl for walking to school through their neighborhood in a dress they considered immodest.
Both musicians were in excellent form, and the occasion was justly received with great warmth -- enough that Mr. Schade seemed a little surprised by his welcome, though only modesty and youth could have made him so.
Mr. Lesh sang a few leads adequately, though with deserved modesty.
That corporate modesty, though, has made the company a target of intense criticism in Ireland, and on a more muted scale in the United States.
Do not think this artifice or excess of modesty though, for, to betray myself utterly, such an one am I that even in my failures I find all the promise I require to justify the astonishing magnitude of my ambition.
But the best host in "The Duchess Who Wouldn't Sit Down" is none other than the author himself, and though he feigns modesty (the way he no doubt does at his parties), he intends for you to take notice.
This is followed by bargaining, trying to compensate for the loss of the kind of serendipitous street life by making deals — big movie deals, ideally, though with a modesty that proves to be typical, Wilentz settles for a $1,100 location fee from a Scandinavian film crew shooting a bank commercial at her house (with pool) in Hancock Park.
