modesty

And it is telling that country star Vince Gill delivers the number not just with enormous feeling, but modesty.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026

“Jumping into that concert in Sydney, and having an earpiece and seeing all this, was a little bit crazy,” says Nasa with well-mannered modesty, “but we somehow got through it.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2026

Longstanding societal norms of thrift and modesty, and lingering memories of wartime scarcity and inflation, have helped make saving an obsession and moral imperative.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 24, 2026

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

"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

We are not going to outrage your sweet modesties, or call blushes on your maiden cheeks.

From The Virginians by William Makepeace Thackeray

I'm so het up I can't set still, an' besides, mebbe we can get the story the way it really happened, from somebody who ain't bound an' gagged an' chloroformed by such unbecomin' modesties.

From The Spoilers by Rex Ellingwood Beach

And this attraction affected her morally, producing in her modesties, reticencies of speech, even of thought, and prickings of unflattering self-criticism unknown to her heretofore.

From The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance by Lucas Malet