modesty
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His proposed ballroom “represents another way this presidency has abandoned its imperative of projecting modesty, openness, and stability,” the architect and historian Neil Flanagan complained in the Atlantic this month.
From Slate ● May 18, 2026
His approach relies in part on structural modesty.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 23, 2026
Women now refuse to turn the clock back even though strict rules on "modesty" and severe punishments are still the law of this land.
From BBC ● Apr. 15, 2026
Despite McKellen’s apparent modesty about his film acting, he’s always had a tremendous presence on screen.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 2026
"Come on, Papi," his daughters coaxed him, as if it were a modesty of his, to perish, and they had to talk him into staying alive.
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
To make one costume seem like many, women are buying in vast quantities dickies, jabots, fichus, gilets, ruches, berthas, bibs, piccadillies, collets, modesties and ruffs.
From Time Magazine Archive
I hope they cannot blame us, we have usd them With that respect our modesties allowd.
From A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 2 by A. H. (Arthur Henry) Bullen
She is kind to him, but hypocritical, affecting scruples, modesties, pieties, a heart and conscience, attitudinising, blushing false blushes, weeping crocodile tears; she is cruel to us, but sincere.
From Grey Roses by Henry Harland
There are modesties in religion as in morals,—inner shrines to be defended at any and all costs.
From The Quickening by E. M. Ashe
This is no time for idle vanities," he said; "it's no time to indulge unreal modesties; and you have none of either if it were.
From The Shadow of a Crime A Cumbrian Romance by Sir Hall Caine
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"The Most Dangerous Game" by Richard Connell
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