Readers mistook her modesty of scale for modesty of ambition.
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And Jordyn I from Westfield, N.J., said "modesty is a necessity": Modesty is a necessity.
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There was no modesty in that lie, and there's no modesty in his apparent peace with it.
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Modesty may be the answer, but how and where will Mr. Brooks find even a hint of modesty today in America?
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STEVEN MORRISMOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. To the Editor: When David Brooks writes that "the most powerful answer to fanaticism is modesty" (albeit "assertive modesty"), he is being too modest with his word choice.
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But modesty isn't an occasion — it's a 24/7 lifestyle.
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The modesty usually expected in an autobiography often proves elusive.
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"I'm just a home cook," says Birkett, her modesty genuine.
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Modesty in public can be shrewder than hyping up expectations.
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Clinton's nomination represents and that she portrayed with such modesty.
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" "Modesty, humility and selflessness -- remember when those were American values?
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Modesty is a spiritual or intellectual scruple haunted by sin.
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"Don't compare that to me," Suzuki said with genuine modesty.
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Will it finally be time for some humility and modesty?
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Modesty, humility and selflessness -- remember when those were American values?
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Professor Calabresi has an explanation for this outbreak of modesty.
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In fact, the most powerful answer to fanaticism is modesty.
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But then I realized there was no need for modesty.
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"I loved his modesty, humility and kindness," Dr. Lindsey said.
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As much as Trump needed modesty, his paragraphs needed transitions.
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"Modesty is part of my life and it was extra important on my wedding day to be mindful of my modesty," said Arielle Wernick, who was married in May to Yaakov Teles in New Jersey.
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In the Trump era, excess is in and modesty is out.
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From Mr Hammond's unpolitical nature flowed the Autumn Statement's essential modesty.
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Let me postulate that Mueller suffered from an attack of modesty.
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With characteristic modesty, Mr Trump is claiming most of the credit.
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"They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity," sighed the owlish Frenchman.
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"Modesty is a virtue, but not in an interview," says Drexler.
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What made him a star was the modesty of his nuttiness.
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They confirm that art of both modesty and beauty lies everywhere.
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Kelly was struck by Mallory's public-spiritedness, and by his modesty.
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To him routine questions are complicated, and modesty is called for.
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Behind the modesty, though, is an equally determined sense of enterprise.
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Call it prudishness, if you like, but such modesty is common.
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Interpretations of modesty differ across religious boundaries and even within them.
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It explores the fusion of faith and fashion, modesty and modernity.
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Modesty can be good in certain situations but binding in others.
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"Modesty had very little place in the peasant world," Figes writes.
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"Without pride, and without undue modesty," she added, laughing some more.
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Her handkerchief is "kind of like a modesty handkerchief," she said.
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But one thing they are definitely not looking for is modesty.
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A bit of modesty from the most powerful woman in America.
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If you're in a country that favors modesty, dress accordingly. 4.
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Just set modesty aside, I'm in such a good place today.
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Mr. Stewart remembered Mr. Jackman for his modesty on that visit.
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Thus, it gathers complexity without sacrificing any of its guileless modesty.
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The environment suits his interpretation, which is special for its modesty.
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The violinist Janine Jansen plays with a kind of radiant modesty.
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"The world was born without any veil of modesty," he marvels.
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But for Moon, it may have been an expression of modesty.
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Who has the time to navigate society's contradictory standards of modesty?
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" Nigeria's modesty however, is palpable in it's slogan "Good people, great nation.
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Wow I have to say … you are a shining example of modesty.
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How has China's new modesty affected the luxury business as a whole?
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Bags, as this company has perfected them, are designed for elegant modesty.
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With characteristic modesty, he'd suggested he's simply too "boring" for the job.
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Charles de Gaulle, a titan not prone to false modesty, wrote four
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This was a big inspiration, as was Beeple's modesty about his talent.
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This comes off not as false modesty but as a slight embarrassment.
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Some analysts see the dawn of a corrective era of corporate modesty.
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Stone steadfastly denies any involvement, in yet another uncharacteristic display of modesty.
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How can people achieve modesty when they're wearing a headscarf worth thousands?
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Understanding modesty is the key element to unlocking sales from Muslim women.
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The modesty of socialist goals could ironically emerge as Mr. Sanders's shield.
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Natural modesty, of course, dictates that he seeks no credit for it.
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"Death wasn't interested in teaching me anything," Giffels writes with becoming modesty.
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There is restraint and modesty in the Martínez's songs and ensemble numbers.
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That is hardly an argument that modesty insulates women from sexual abuse.
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My perfect couple who risked missing each other because of excessive modesty.
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It further bans tattoos and piercings to promote modesty among its worshippers.
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To aim for modesty and humility and cooperation rather than blowhard arrogance.
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Modesty is an epistemology directly opposed to the conspiracy mongering mind-set.
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" He added, "I'm not famous for my modesty, whether false or otherwise.
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How can I ask for some modesty in their displays of affection?
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Shrinking modesty is not the normal attitude for restaurants with a view.
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The City Council's conceit might be cured by a healthy dose of modesty.
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There are diverse views on what modesty looks like even among these women.
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I do think a lot of people equate modesty with being boring, though.
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Even holding a woman's hand can be considered an "outrage to her modesty".
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She takes them on with evident respect but neither fear nor false modesty.
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" But of course, there were still naysayers who wrote, "I believe in modesty.
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Their modesty sets a tone of humility and strength that everyone else follows.
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Despite my disability, I've got the looks and the personality (plus the modesty).
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Modesty, when it came to swimsuits, was not just unwelcome, it was illegal.
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In other words, the meeting of modesty and modernity couldn't be more relevant.
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One choice is to throw modesty to the wind and simply bare all.
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Such modesty, but it is a critical part of an age-discrimination case.
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The all-encompassing loose robe is meant to protect women's modesty in public.
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Critics fretted that athletics would unbind women from femininity's modesty and self-restraint.
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Already, talk in the department has turned to reversing Chief O'Neill's sartorial modesty.
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It feels like we've reached a turning point in protests against modesty laws.
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The journey to Mecca requires utmost modesty, spiritual purity, and peace of mind.
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Saudi Arabia claims these restrictions are to ensure "women's modesty" commanded by Allah.
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Morality police enforced modesty and prayer times while banning music and gender-mixing.
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It seems like a good time for assertive modesty to take a stand.
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And he retained a belief in the essential goodness and modesty of Beaujolais.
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Who else would describe criticism as "modesty" or as "simplicity and near-silence"?
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The response is a mixed bag; people have different histories with performed modesty.
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Financial responsibility rates higher than sense of humor, attractiveness, ambition, courage and modesty.
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This sense of modesty helps keep prices down in relation to other village Burgundies.
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I find that an apt analogy to this car's owner's lost sense of modesty.
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Of course, in Love's version a pair of nude underwear protects the model's modesty.
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It's modesty as excess, if you can believe that contradiction—but that's fashion, baby!
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But why should Wonder Woman, my fantasy of strength, be bound by mortal modesty?
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Michael Red: "Modesty" might be a quality, which is also a detriment as well.
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In retrospect, maybe what was best about the original John Wick was its modesty.
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When you're moving at warp speed, modesty can only tell part of the story.
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He effuses a near-constant modesty and encourages quality time with partners and family.
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Like a Madonna, she projects both humility and self-assurance—modesty predicated on confidence.
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As a mother, there is the loss of personal space, of modesty, of identity.
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Since then, some of these modesty laws have loosened, but headscarves are still mandatory.
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Washington's modesty and selflessness were in evidence from the beginning of his public career.
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Self-portraiture has long served as a promotional tool, and has rarely rewarded modesty.
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"ThisTree" concludes with moving modesty: the simple recognition that this is how things are.
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There are murals depicting the studio's owner, never a man exactly crippled by modesty.
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The star's exact burial spot isn't indicated, to stress modesty and to maintain privacy.
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But he had to get past his deeply ingrained modesty to achieve that recalibration.
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But more modesty by itself is not going to make this problem go away.
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And I had, forgive me for the lack of modesty, some kind of success.
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At Wine School, modesty is a prime virtue, in both wines and wine drinkers.
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Draw some leaves around its middle, for modesty, and cover everything else in tattoos.
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Aron believed that history teaches us humility, modesty and the limits of our knowledge.
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This may be uncomfortable for some as it affords very little privacy or modesty.
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Marty Rotella, a musician, said the modesty of the environs was not an issue.
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" Obama on Wednesday nominated Garland, noting the judge's "decency, modesty, even-handedness and excellence.
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A skilled politician, she projects modesty while not exactly turning away from the spotlight.
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The old-masters world, too, tends to prefer discretion — if not modesty — to showiness.
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Such modesty is increasingly rare in an age of braggarts, experts, and self-promoters.
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Rather, there is an important lesson that they convey through their modesty and directness.
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Underwear would have ruined her outfit, and that simply isn't worth the pretense of modesty.
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The design emphasized comfort, modesty, and patient empowerment, not necessarily ease of use for physicians.
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But while immigration plays a role in Europe's increasing modesty, other factors are more important.
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She tilts her head downwards in this gesture of modesty and veneration toward her groom.
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The late president possessed the rare quality of being able to fuse modesty with drive.
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The first layer was the person delicately draped in a way that preserved their modesty.
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The estimated cost of the proposal, about $100m a year, also hints at its modesty.
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The fashion and beauty industries aren't historically known for modesty — nor diversity, for that matter.
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" And in a false show of modesty, he says, "Every president has strengths and weaknesses.
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Have the C.E.O.s and the compensation committees that set their pay discovered something approaching modesty?
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"You have to have a degree of modesty, to deal with the materials," she says.
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But she drew the line at covering her hair, as some Jewish modesty laws require.
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What do you know, young man, about the modesty of women in the old times?
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Bush said his reticence came from his mother's Yankee sense of modesty in social relations.
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Err on the side of modesty — in some countries, for example, women rarely wear shorts.
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My modesty and fear of being too boastful almost prevented me from sharing something great.
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Even after a payment, she sometimes feigned modesty and remained silent, or answered very briefly.
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Despite their modesty, they are in some ways the most radical paintings in the show.
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There is an aura around him, stoked rather than relieved by his modesty and industry.
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Mr. Irby, 26 and formerly homeless, replied with a theatrical hand gesture of feigned modesty.
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Religious women are exempted from army service because they adhere to strict rules of modesty.
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His assessment seemed more like a reflection of reality than a demonstration of false modesty.
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That's quite a dramatic expression of precision (or modesty) for one of theater's indisputable greats.
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His modesty reflects his unusual profile; but also how unloved elected Democrats are in Alabama.
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Women are forbidden to read, cannot control money and are forced to wear modesty clothing.
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All modesty — either real or contrived to guard against exposure — was absent from the man.
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With near-nudity now commonplace, several big stars opted for modesty, if not exactly restraint.
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But he does so from a position of modesty — his unbothered affect is a camouflage.
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"In India, technically, this idea of modesty is actually an impact of colonialism," Manchanda said.
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Let her teach her daughters that modesty, patience, and gentleness are the charms of a women.
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And finally, she couldn't find any dresses that would meet with her strict standards of modesty.
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SHUNNING all false modesty, China's leader, Xi Jinping, calls his idea the "project of the century".
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Both these pieces have a lyrical, self-assured modesty that modernism can always use more of.
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Mr. Rose conducts with modesty and clarity, achieving the canny trick of seeming to avoid interpretation.
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And while Islam dictates that women dress modestly, the definition of modesty is up for interpretation.
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In fact, people tell me modesty might be my best quality — even better than my temperament.
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Given the legal modesty of the measures announced by the President, Congress' silence is simply irrelevant.
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Lewis told Fox News he was trying to have a conversation about social norms around modesty.
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While delightfully varied from one guest to the next, each outfit shares a common thread: modesty.
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" That sentiment reflected what former President Barack Obama on Wednesday called Stevens' "signature pragmatism and modesty.
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You were born into wealth and privilege, but raised to personify modesty, rectitude, and noblesse oblige.
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In all modesty, I'd like to say that I'm going to do Jeanne by the book.
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The remuneration plan, however, does not suggest he has acquired much in the way of modesty.
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The second: The university's all-female, pro-abstinence organization held a "modesty panel" for campus women.
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Sex was also a way to rebel against the administration's constant nagging about tzniut (sexual modesty).
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Others said they would leave the event if they were forced to wear a modesty poncho.
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A lean, bespectacled Fulani from the north, Malam Dicko broadcast a message of equality and modesty.
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Modesty is not a quality in demand in modern American politics, either from voters or officeholders.
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The polite self-effacement of his Midwestern upbringing came through, but Mr. Vernon battles excessive modesty.
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Francis's efforts to show his modesty have not always sat well with the commander in chief.
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The runners see stares — quizzical, blank or bored — or they see people look away in modesty.
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It hints at an outsider with resentments and frustrations as well as modesty and moral courage.
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Not "nasty," and not indicative of our modesty or our sexuality — just messy, and also glorious.
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What is modesty, really, but society telling you to sit in time-out for feeling awesome?
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"What all this will do to the world I cannot guess," Pierce admitted, with becoming modesty.
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What happened when one feminist writer shed her makeup and minis in the name of modesty.
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Modesty is a good thing when it is not self-deprecating and full of double standards.
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In the long galleys where ensemble members prepare, there's really no choice — no privacy, no modesty.
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But unlike them — and, indeed, unlike most senators — Mr. Lugar was known for his extraordinary modesty.
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One thing is certain: False modesty will not appear on any list of his character traits.
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You value modesty and hard work, in a very real way that I have not encountered.
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It might be said that these rulings merely reflect an appropriate modesty about the judicial role.
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Perhaps in keeping with this ethic of modesty, none of them are identified by their names.
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Modesty means having the courage to rest in anxiety and not try to quickly escape it.
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J Lo's never one for modesty -- we all still remember the Super Bowl halftime show, right?
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And despite his outward modesty, the impressiveness of his shots is not entirely lost on Judge.
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Despite the designer's modesty, as the women he's dressed prove, his trajectory has been anything but ordinary.
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Besides, since she's not technically a royal, Pippa doesn't really have to follow the traditional modesty protocol.
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But with the economy tepid and income inequality only growing, modesty is not a good enough policy.
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Their modesty and witty dialogues are so charismatic that the artist let them talk without much interference.
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Mueller's modesty became meekness and it could not have occurred at a worse time for the country.
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He went without the notorious modesty sock often given to male actors for nude scenes, he said.
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While typically considered a virtue, modesty, like any other virtue, can become a fault when wrongly applied.
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I mean, sure, there's something to be said for modesty and coolness under all kinds of pressure.
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There's often little modesty, or little fear that one could be going too far in self-promotion.
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The modesty around wearing a headscarf is also about showing your hair to the people you love.
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There's something refreshingly modest about that—and it's a modesty that extends to the franchise in general.
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She was banished after being summoned by the Vaad, which told her she was violating modesty rules.
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From a country defined by its modesty, he has always stood out because of his sheer immodesty.
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"Even 'Miss America' realizes that Modesty is about Empowerment," the Forward declared the day after the announcement.
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For all my agreement with him, however, I wish Wilentz had made his point with greater modesty.
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Do curve-obliterating blazers, high-collar silks and flat shoes somehow align with the current modesty movement?
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Similarly, I think the clothes we are drawn to now have a softness and modesty to them.
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Even former presidents far better at simulating modesty have been unable to resist monumentalizing themselves for posterity.
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She has a wry sense of humor, and her modesty belies the magnitude of her scientific achievements.
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"This is very good," my old friend said, with the understatement and modesty I remembered from childhood.
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The sheer modesty of the desire adds to its power and humanizes the suffering Europe's division created.
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We're not there in 2016 — but, with more modesty on both sides, we can get there someday.
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"Purity of manners, fine sensibility, chastity, modesty, sweetness of nature, temper meek," she wrote — "that's what's important."
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Davos is hardly known for its modesty—nor its favoring of government solutions to publicly shared problems.
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To the Editor: David Brooks's column is insightful, and I agree with the need for more modesty.
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While this is not a rousing call for action, it is a call for modesty and lucidity.
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Modesty means being tough enough to endure the pain of uncertainty and coming to appreciate that pain.
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Some oppose sportswear for women, fearing they will get used to wearing it and lose their modesty.
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For example, they learn subtle arts such as false modesty so they won't be perceived as obnoxious.
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Nobody, as he quipped at a gala for his 60th birthday, ever accused him of excessive modesty.
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His eyes, dark and wide, stare straight ahead; hers are lowered, with the modesty of a Madonna.
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These cookies feign modesty, but they know by the end of the party, they'll be gone. 1.
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Kate is also known to rock a DVF wrap dress (but always adds a camisole for modesty).
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The model projects neither modesty nor bravado; he simply allows the camera to dispassionately catalog his body.
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She also wanted to explore creativity in her appearance while still adhering to Islam's rules about modesty.
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The Sicilian justice, a Ronald Reagan appointee, preached judicial modesty over his nearly 30 years on the bench.
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The emphasis of the dress code was on modesty and "coverage of all the lady bits," she said.
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More superficially perhaps, the pope, who has called money "the devil's dung", values modesty; Mr Trump does not.
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In fact, many people tell me that modesty is perhaps my best quality — even better than my temperament.
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This mistake arose not out of corruption, malice, or partisanship, but out of a mistaken sense of modesty.
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They introduced it "with modesty, because we had not rigorously established its prevalence", they wrote ten years later.
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What Eliot and King realized was that modesty, at key points in history, requires eloquence to be understood.
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Some of our most valued qualities—kindness, integrity, empathy, modesty, patience, and trustworthiness—are nestled within this dimension.
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Centuries ago, the wraps and headwear were worn not just for modesty, but to display social status, too.
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But for all its modesty, this is the United States' latest outpost in its deepening campaign against ISIS.
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Emotional prisoners of your uncalled-for modesty, we kept your deep dives into edge computing systems to ourselves.
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They must surrender their own rights to privacy, modesty, and safety in order to appease the new mandate.
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Mona Charen: Trump has made a career out of egotism, while conservatism implies a certain modesty about government.
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MARIA WILCZEKOxford His modesty notwithstanding, George Martin's indelible influence on The Beatles cannot be overstated (Obituary, March 19th).
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"I've always been a very efficient person," he told me, with more modesty than comes across in print.
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Media in the United States, however, seemed to be more open to modesty than those in European countries.
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In Antonio Banderas, Mr. Hudson has a winning de Sautuola of personal modesty, scientific integrity and paternal warmth.
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" She likes his modesty, his persistence, his elegance, his enthusiasms for "food and tequila and music and women.
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"For four years, they were taught the main principles: covertness, modesty, thoughtfulness, watchfulness," Mr. Mikhailov told Ren-TV.
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" The marathon, Robbins writes, runs "counter to the Hasidic community's strict interpretation of the commandment of tznuit, modesty.
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The David TC silhouettes ($1,200 to $1,500) were the most appealing in their blend of modesty and resilience.
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Many Muslim women wear hijabs as an Islamic tradition to show modesty and as a sign of identity.
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But American society was, and in many ways still is, governed by puritanical notions of modesty and virginity.
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The move parallels similar ones in Israel and London, where issues concerning modesty have come to the forefront.
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Practitioners of the Quiverfull movement also stress strict female modesty as a means of deterring male sexual advances.
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It also bucks Samsung's recent trend of battery modesty, in the wake of the ongoing Note 7 fiasco.
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Neither would the champion, a Porsche-endorsed prodigy low on modesty, have won invitations to the Supreme Soviet.
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Nor did its impact on the makeup of the United States fit the modesty of President Johnson's prognostication.
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But we have to ask whether physical modesty is tantamount to racism or has a more legitimate basis.
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Has the passage of time since you published "My Year of Modesty" permanently changed the way you dress?
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The grille is a study in modesty, when compared to Lexus' controversial "spindle" and Acura's hard-edged angles.
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"I asked, 'Did you have no shame, no modesty," he said in an interview for the TV program.
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Opinion In a country that prides itself on its modesty, a victory could lead to an existential crisis.
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Spieth, the first-round leader at Augusta, seems practically an anti-Woods in his decency, modesty and wholesomeness.
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There was moral purity in his modesty, his ethics and his quiet attachment to home in Omaha, Nebraska.
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But "Untitled America" is not as affecting as "Pavement," because it lacks the earlier piece's modesty and indirection.
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In this spirit of modesty, he said, it was time to consolidate his three private jets to one.
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But maybe the only thing that can surprise us about a skyscraper these days is a little modesty.
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Something about having their modesty restored gave people permission to gawp a little more openly at their bodies.
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Such faultiness calls for modesty in thinking about how we go about rebuilding once hurricane season has passed.
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But for now, the question of modesty has mostly been addressed by moving the sunbathers to another island.
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"Downsizing" is an ambitious movie about the value of modesty, and its faults are proportionate to its insights.
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After losing in Iowa, Trump delivered a concession speech that struck many observers for its modesty and graciousness.
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Although Alper's self-confidence deserves a boost, her modesty, self-awareness, and total lack of pretension are refreshing.
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The concept of fashion-forward modesty may have Kate as its most prominent icon, but it's spearheaded by a prolific group of fashion bloggers — diverse women of different faiths, sizes, and backgrounds who challenge the misconceptions about modesty by showcasing how it is a beautiful option for the modern woman.
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He was schooled in modesty, fond of the small behind-the-scenes gesture rather than the large public show.
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When Mr. Violier was awarded the top place in La Liste's ranking in December, he responded with characteristic modesty.
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Such informed modesty, as anybody who's been to a party of smarties can tell you, is a rare gift.
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But the humility and modesty embraced by the Founding Fathers have been replaced by cocky, reality TV-style braggadocio.
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After Rihanna, 27, owns up to texting a nude selfie (sheepishly, mind you), she challenges Clooney's claims of modesty.
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The modesty of this afterthought for working moms speaks volumes about Trump's genuine concern for middle-class working parents.
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Given how widely the party's ideas have influenced powerful Republicans, the convention's modesty lent the Libertarians an underdog air.
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Her early paintings, which include portraits of wealthy aristocratic women, reflect a sense of constriction and self-conscious modesty.
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It's something you hear often from rappers but not necessarily in New Zealand, where modesty is the favoured route.
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In addition, Thanh and Vu pleaded guilty to an additional charge of outrage of modesty in the sexual assault.
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Yet for all his innate modesty, he lives on 115 manicured hectares bang in the centre of crowded Tokyo.
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Ignoring a modesty screen, Jossen stood in the middle of the room and shrugged on a lavender striped shirt.
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A LOCAL CHANNEL A lean, bespectacled Fulani from the north, Malam Dicko broadcast a message of equality and modesty.
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And perhaps this disavowal implies a modesty about political efficacy; a writer can do only so much, after all.
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David's own beauty was the unspoken context, and of course his incalculable modesty and vanity shaded any such compliment.
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Their duty of modesty is to keep their favorite sport alive and ongoing, and there's no shame in that.
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A sign of modesty, perhaps, but above all a statement that the late king's legacy will be carried on.
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Mr. Brooks's antidote lies in modesty, a virtue he elevates by astutely reframing it as both courageous and tough.
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Conversely, some of the most disappointing wines of the world lack modesty and come off as pompous and vainglorious.
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" Kennedy thought Roberts had presented his interpretation as "judicial modesty," when it amounted instead "to a vast judicial overreaching.
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He faced his responsibility with modesty and gravity...he found that 'what the President did was wrong, grievously wrong.
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"Pragmatic modesty and patience are advisable," wrote Christoph von Marschall, the senior editor at the Berlin daily Der Tagesspiegel.
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At their entertainments there is no conversation that is agreeable; there is no modesty, no attention to one another.
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What these proposals lack in progressive ambition, they make up in political plausibility and the inherent appeal of modesty.
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So, yes, Oliver Sacks's writing, like any writing, partakes in showboating, even when cloaked in modesty and self-effacement.
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If there's even the thinnest of fabrics between her chest and the world, she's living at the height of modesty.
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Orthodox women maintain certain modesty rules regarding their clothing and wear sheitls (wigs) to cover their hair when in public.
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Kate Middleton is proof that modesty and fashion can go together, and it doesn't have to be a big thing.
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"It comes into this idea of modesty rhetoric that any level of skin showing is immodest and sexual," she said.
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I don't believe that modesty is synonymous with self respect and especially not the respect you should receive from others.
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One reason Joe Brainard made so many small works was to convey that modesty and ambition were not mutually exclusive.
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It's Victorian modesty to not have color and in Indian tradition, a widow would not have color in their clothes.
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I think the past is sometimes shrouded in a sort of modesty that might not necessarily have been the case.
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He is also known for creating the term "humblebrag," and publishing the 2012 book Humblebrag: The Art of False Modesty.
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So I don't think pantsuits are going to be the big story of 2018, but I do think modesty is.
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Fashion police A Catholic high school in Michigan thought these "modesty ponchos" were just the thing for this year's prom.
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Still, his colleagues at The Times described Mr. Sulzberger as a quick study whose modesty masked a deep inner confidence.
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We need to emphasize greater epistemological modesty on our side and greater appreciation for the perspectives of the other side.
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Almodóvarian and Buñuelian grace notes adorn its matter-of-fact melody, and its surface modesty camouflages an unruly, extravagant spirit.
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When he retired last year after nearly 34 years in the Marine Corps, his speech was noted for its modesty.
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He clearly cares about the court's credibility, and he has shown flashes of judicial modesty, respecting both precedent and Congress.
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" It was "not a perfect speech," Sandomir writes, but a "great one, notable for its power, structure, generosity and modesty.
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The movie is one of a kind — an exotic pageant executed with grace, gravity and a breathtaking modesty of means.
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The modesty that defines good martial arts in the "Ip Man" franchise is also a principal virtue of the films.
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Ms. Krauss will go only so far in analyzing her gifts and inclinations before retreating to modesty or comic relief.
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They cast the issue as one of basic modesty, but the transgender student says it goes far deeper than that.
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She often casts her eyes down, but this is less modesty than attunement to the street life beneath her feet.
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A few days later, when I met Coogler for coffee, he burst out laughing at the memory of his modesty.
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We are very proud to say that, in all modesty, we are the flag bearers of Singapore across the seven seas.
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And Jesus has recently been popping up on Tinder, where he displays his characteristic modesty by listing his profession as carpenter.
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He takes a sip from a glass of classic Coke, a bite, and lets his modesty unfurl with an endearing sincerity.
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In a moment of phony modesty, Trump said "It's too early for me to be congratulated," and proceeded to praise himself.
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I tried to say thank you while at the same time diving back down on the towel to preserve my modesty.
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When her shirt was torn off for organising a protest, she saved her modesty with safety pins and went on hectoring.
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Modesty is the key, determining a general acceptance that the body between knee to above the belly button must be covered.
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Ian Balina, a former IBM salesman who became a full-time cryptocurrency trader and pundit, is not known for his modesty.
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He is a great example of doing his part to help those in need, and he handled it with such modesty.
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However, it seems there is an extra effort to subdue Islamic attire whose mere purpose is to promote modesty and simplicity.
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But if they've fallen victim to cost-cutting or newfound modesty, then look for a procession of cream-colored cowboy hats.
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Analysts who have faith in the deal as it is currently designed recommend more modesty in attempting to build upon it.
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"It has been suggested that it was father's natural modesty which caused the plan to fail," The Times wrote in 1926.
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Women and girls are at greater risk of drowning in cultures where beliefs about modesty deter them from learning to swim.
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The bigger problem is the gap between the lofty rhetoric of political leaders and the essential modesty of these defence drives.
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Orthodox Jews, moreover, are not the only New Yorkers who hew to a different view of modesty than the contemporary one.
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If anything, Ms. Portman seems constrained by her own modesty, by a justified but nonetheless limiting reverence for her source material.
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Instead, it was a different set of qualities: modesty, humility and selflessness -- even when those closest to Washington plotted against him.
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There was something about the modesty of that figure that got even distant volunteers incensed on behalf of the local community.
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He approaches these interviews with modesty, putting the spotlight on the guest, deferring to them, rarely challenging or probing too far.
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Other than the advice columnists at Maxim magazine, who are today's male authorities on the subjects of consideration, modesty and respect?
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Kuma, a constant source of paradoxes and ironies, often makes demagogic statements on behalf of his own brand of architectural modesty.
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Indeed, Ms. Torkia, the influencer, no longer frequently adopts a head scarf or markets herself specifically through the lens of modesty.
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Indeed, Ms. Torkia, the influencer, no longer frequently adopts a head scarf or markets herself specifically through the lens of modesty.
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This is the kind of minor slight that could rile another artist, but Sampha's ethos is centered on modesty and humility.
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I might just be able to pull it off, but only if I worked at it, with devotion and Protestant modesty.
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"I've been very prolific," he said matter-of-factly; six decades of work eliminates any impulse toward exaggeration or false modesty.
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Fashion shoots, like French beaches, are not typically bastions of modesty; you don't go into modelling if you're shy of déshabille.
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All of that, now, seems like a colossal misjudgment, excessive false modesty, needless doom-mongering, or a little of all three.
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Mormon voters might lean Republican, but their conservatism has roots in modesty, family values, and a long history of religious persecution.
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There is an underlying modesty to Koethe's poems that set them stand apart from other poets working in an autobiographical mode.
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The tall capitals and use of a first initial only show his pride in himself and his accomplishments, and no false modesty.
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Until recently Mexican penal codes required victims of rape, abuse, or sexual harassment to prove that their honorability [meaning modesty or reputation].
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The one thing that will earn a disapproving stare is wearing clothing, because such modesty implies an inappropriate level of sexual consciousness.
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Modesty gets a lot of shade from the fashion community mostly because it is mistakenly associated with dull, shapeless, and unflattering clothes.
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Yet modesty is also due, about forces greater than the wits and power of even historically aware societies are able to contain.
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It covers succession and the sale of shares in the firm, but also guidelines for religious tolerance, modesty and respect for others.
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Eros Hugo: Between Modesty and Excess continues at the Maison Victor Hugo (6 Place des Vosges, 4th arrondissement, Paris) through February 21.
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While showing off her physique, Hadid maintained a little bit of modesty by strategically draping a bunch of grapes across her body.
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The only noticeable difference between the two Versace creations is the nude panel that Aniston added for a little bit of modesty.
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Film producer Rana El-Sobky was sentenced to a year in prison for "violating public modesty" in a film released in theaters.
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Should women celebrate the attention and perks that a cleavage-revealing top can deliver, or should they cover up and practice modesty?
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How you were raised plays a big part in your level of modesty, says Drexler, who has conducted more than 10,000 interviews.
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Julian Wachner, Trinity Wall Street's director of music and the arts, confessed to mixed feelings about the modesty of this year's commemorations.
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But his reliance on charter flights contrasts sharply with his image as a Rust Belt mayor who embodies frugality and Midwestern modesty.
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Actors do that "don't look at me, I'm shy" false modesty thing all the time, but with her, you can believe it.
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For many of my peers, however, the whole process is a grueling battle between modesty, cultural prohibitions, general resentment, and punitive possibilities.
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Tommy Hilfiger's Ramadan 2015 collection has come the closest to meeting these style and modesty requirements, but most other collections fall short.
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There is a Shaker-like modesty to this novel's aims, and like all such art, it has a high degree of difficulty.
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Lott is using the NRC's academic modesty and fastidiousness — something his own work is not known for — to undermine the central findings.
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But even as it clings to indie modesty, "Clean" greatly expands the scope of Ms. Allison's songs in both words and music.
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Nirva works with a soft voice, a bubbling laugh and disarming modesty, covering her face with both hands when receiving a compliment.
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And the clothes — well-executed basics, with an occasional twist — don't reflect a commitment to any particular aesthetic ideology, apart from modesty.
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One of those men was charged with "insulting the modesty of a woman," while the remaining three were charged with indecent assault.
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Mike Hale wrote in his review for The New York Times that the series benefits from the modesty "Game of Thrones" lacks.
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The lesson of these experiences is that American support for democracy and human rights requires modesty, patience, and a tolerance for reversals.
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A "dupatta," the traditional scarf representing female modesty, drapes down toward two women, neither of whom are free from society's patriarchal structures.
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Mr. Gerber, a former model, took the mic and, with the modesty of a supporting player, thanked Omega for employing his family.
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Intimate without being overtly personal, ambitious without being striving, Jacobsen's work makes small but convincing claims for the outsized power of modesty.
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Assuming that modesty is not my choice demotes me from a thinking being, and perpetuates the same stereotypes that hold all women back.
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Modesty may have deep roots and many connotations, but don't let its long history obscure its appeal, power, and relevance for modern women.
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Not that we're floozies, but you have costume designers looking at you naked, and sound engineers, and your modesty goes away pretty quickly.
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"We would be considered a medium-sized farm, right on the edge of being a big farm," says Steven with no false modesty.
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He has moved the action backward in time and dramatically expanded its scope, replacing modesty, irony and charm with earnest, sometimes overstrained ambition.
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The Vermont senator, after being hailed for his "modesty" by his co-stars and producers, was back in New Hampshire by 3 a.m.
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Brainard's delightfully memorable synthesis of modesty, ambition, inventiveness, and humor comes through in the exhibition Joe Brainard: 100 Works at Tibor de Nagy.
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Sarongs circle their bellies, but they strip off this modesty as they walk briskly across the stage, their swimsuits secured with butt glue.
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A flyer stating the community's principles lists diversity of people, income, profession, and interests; non-elitism; modesty of house sizes; community; and simplicity.
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Alas, that position attracted the most conservative Muslim families to cluster there, creating an oppressive atmosphere as older brothers policed their sisters' modesty.
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Dutschke had little appreciation for the surreal and the absurd sides of leftist politics, and his influence stemmed from his modesty and inclusiveness.
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Modesty and duty to country were more important than stroking his own ego — a lesson one or more of his successors might heed.
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"The website notes that Vietnamese culture generally favors conservative dress, and the áo dài fits into that by exemplifying "grace, modesty and beauty.
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They also cannot appear in public without wearing a full-length black abaya, a loose robe meant to protect women's modesty in public.
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"It's an accommodation that allows you to participate in some ways in mainstream fashion, while still maintaining the requirements of modesty," she said.
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According to the study: This is Zuckerberg's personality mapped out by Paysa: Other notable traits he apparently possesses include modesty, assertiveness and altruism.
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He might have said the same for the judicial modesty the chief justice seemed to be advocating when it comes to addressing gerrymanders.
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A sensation when it was first published, its author, Naji, was charged with "violating public modesty" and sentenced to two years in prison.
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It is easy to get overly fixated on accomplishments, but with just a little bit of modesty the downfalls can me appreciated too.
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He's right that there's an element of bewilderment — or, at least, the modesty of maturity — in this more ruminative, less rhythmically moored take.
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So spending free time being humbled and outsmarted by creatures we supposedly evolved past can instill a sense of connection, modesty and reverence.
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The reasons a woman chooses to wear a hijab can be highly personal, with some seeing modesty as its own form of empowerment.
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One section of the penal code, for example, criminalizes assault on a woman "with intent to outrage her modesty," without defining specific offenses.
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Mr. Trump is not one for false modesty — nor, on his just-completed, nine-day foreign trip, was he one for news conferences.
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The Bengali letter "o" used to stand for "ol," a yam; now it stands for "orna," a scarf worn by women for modesty.
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Mid-19th century women were expected to adorn themselves and take pride in their appearance, yet were governed by strict decorum and modesty.
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Others said Salmeron, who in his post also drew attention to Garza's personal modesty and his contributions to Mexican education, should be fired.
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It's also directly in contrast with the idea of wabi-sabi, the Buddhist ideal of the beauty in imperfection, modesty and humble materials.
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Ms. Varda's modesty is evidence of her mastery, just as her playful demeanor is the expression of a serious and demanding aesthetic commitment.
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Mr. Moretti — who prefers to call the lab's work "computational criticism" — tends to greet such challenges with a mixture of modesty and bravado.
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What we should not lose sight of is that Elmslie's modesty has produced some of the most exquisite sentences I have ever read.
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These changes came at the onset of the Victorian era: Lawmakers, legislators, and the male workforce became inordinately concerned with privacy and modesty.
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In the U.S., people from all faiths dress modestly, which makes sense because all of the world's major religions extol modesty as a virtue.
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Originally designed in Australia by Aheeda Zanetti, the burkini is named as a portmanteau of "burqa" and "bikini"—polar opposites on the modesty scale.
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Halfway through the shoot she modeled bikini bottoms sans top and used the fail-safe modeling pose to keep her modesty: the hand bra.
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Do not mistake small size of Powell's paintings for modesty; she wants to draw us in, to make works that can sustain close looking.
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This modest entry, if modesty is possible in this genre, delights in the way its percussive synthesizer punch renders several formerly irritating melodies palatable.
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Revered as a symbol of modesty, the veil has played a part in religious ceremonies around the world, such as Christianity, Judaism, and Islam.
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She also argued that men and women should follow the same conventions regarding modesty and sex — a prototypical version of the double-standard idea.
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And with his characteristic modesty Mr Trump professes to love Britain: "I don't imagine any other US president was closer to your great land."
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There is a modesty here, but also a contrast to the total solutions that go back to old traditions or forward to utopian futures.
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"While I'm not sure if it is Scottish modesty or the truth, every whisky maker will tell you they are always learning," says Simmons.
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With each subsequent trailblazing moment, among them a historic burkini-clad shoot for Sports Illustrated, Aden has proved that modesty is not about religion.
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But the modesty of the movie's design has its own sneaky power, especially once those shaking episodes become more widespread in the dance troupe.
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Why, 40 years later, when breasts are exposed in bus ads, in movies and on tops of buildings, is modesty required of lactating mothers?
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"We use words like 'nasty,' 'dirty,' and 'sloppy seconds' to describe those who embrace multiple partners, and we overvalue so-called modesty," she says.
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Simplicity, modesty and obviousness appear to be his bywords, all the better to disturb the assumptions of preciousness, skill and aloofness basic to art.
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I'm guessing his modesty and laser focus attracted Wall Street to his stock; well, that, and the fact that his business is actually profitable.
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For the Supreme Court to extend Bivens to claims like the Hernandez's would undercut the "importance of caution and judicial modesty in this area".
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Alexei was serious about his spiritual pursuits, but he and Hay both took an interest, too, in Orthodox clothing, with its modesty and rigor.
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Jon doesn't want power, a rare display of modesty that, the show keeps reminding us, may actually be his ticket to the Iron Throne.
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They show up in its productions and in the way the company — whose official motto is "modesty, fairness, grace" — regulates its performers' private lives.
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He provides a few examples:public confidence or the lack of itsocial norms regarding extravagance or modesty in consumptionreal-estate booms and bustsstock-market bubbles.
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Herizen F. Guardiola has an endearing, believable combination of sass and modesty as Mylene, the minister's daughter who wants to become a disco star.
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Galli stresses that everything depends on "the talent of the players," that "there are no gurus here," but such modesty, while commendable, is misleading.
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Besides the religious and cultural choices their customers make, a brand's bottom line is, of course, a key consideration when undertaking modesty-minded offerings.
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The presentation "produced the impression of an exploded bomb," Dr. Alferov would recall without undue modesty in his Nobel acceptance speech 32 years later.
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Constructed on top of the archeological ruins of old Mecca, which were unapologetically destroyed to accommodate the buildings, they dwarf Kaaba in its modesty.
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Rather than focusing on any single policy issue, Biden's campaign is centered on the notion of a return to public decency and political modesty.
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To take it any further, as the authors may hope, would be to tempt fate — and also to undermine the modesty of the material.
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With the type of understated modesty that feels hard-wired in South Korean skaters, he thanked everyone around him and barely broke a smile.
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That modesty is a hallmark of the album's first single, "Yummy," a lithe sensual incantation that (despite occasionally ridiculous lyrics) never breaks a sweat.
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Albrecht, the nobleman who deceives her, was played by Alban Lendorf, a Danish dancer of gorgeous modesty who is also not given to overemoting.
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With its refined finishes and clean lines, the house at first seems diametrically opposed to the cloistral modesty of a building like Vivienda Takuru.
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Boastful about their modesty, constantly daring the world to underestimate them, Tate and Dickinson both wrote major poetry in intentionally minor modes and forms.
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Many aides also wore thick tights or black leggings, though it was unclear if that was a nod to modesty or the bad weather.
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However, after reading that a candidate for a board of supervisors position supports preserving "public female modesty", I decide I should really go vote.
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These petals frame the flower's own beauty: The top one stands poised over the anthers, while the bottom one drapes the ovaries in modesty.
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There's still the question of Credence's sister, Chastity, as well as Modesty, who Credence calls a sister but who isn't actually related to him.
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It's probably not modesty, and more likely the Omaha native's reluctance to say too much that keeps Crawford from acknowledging that he's overwhelmingly talented.
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The party that historically championed conservatism, modesty, and traditional values will have a nominee who, a decade ago, would never have made it in politics.
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The other modest runners were out there running in jean skirts — and for running, I wasn't willing to compromise on comfort and style for modesty.
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One of the few differences between the real Bayeux Tapestry and ours is that our Victorian seamstresses covered this gentleman's.. *ahem* ..modesty with some pants.
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The total market for these luxury electric vehicle's (more the $60,000) has grown only modesty in 2018 and 2019, and Tesla's sales volume has decreased.
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This comment from America's chief justice, who holds two degrees from Harvard, had a tinge of false modesty: the mathematics of gerrymandering isn't brain surgery.
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Documentaries pleased her as a schooling in modesty, just placing the camera to observe, not hovering like an eagle or overlaying ideas of her own.
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Mr Díaz-Canel, an engineer by training, has acquired a reputation for modesty during his quiet three-decade ascent through government and the Communist Party.
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Conversely, wool, cotton, silk and so on are transparent to neither part of the spectrum, so retain IR even as they preserve the wearer's modesty.
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It is unlikely that many American women are considering the virtue of modesty every time they choose a blouse or skirt that shows less skin.
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But an EU legislator close to German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Markus Ferber, attacked the ECB on Wednesday, saying it lacked "modesty" with its NPL plans.
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While the images are meant to offend ISIS, known for preaching modesty, they might also offend people who have no affiliation with the group whatsoever.
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Duncan is, by his own account, "a war hero with rugged good looks and a sharp sense of humor," not to mention a beguiling modesty.
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Among other special rules around the hajj, there is a relaxation of some of Islam's modesty strictures: Women are not supposed to cover their faces.
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"His years in Congress, as a diplomat, CIA Director and Vice President of the United States were characterized by modesty, integrity, and patriotism," Pence added.
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The modesty of my swimsuits has increased with my age and my dedication to Islam, but I have been the same person underneath them all.
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" Meanwhile "individualism" itself is also sadly linked to "high extraversion, especially boldness and assertiveness," as well as "low agreeableness, especially low modesty and high grandiosity.
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While Ghanem notes that there are already a couple of modesty-minded activewear options on the market, none of them were actually all that stylish.
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When it came time for the delegates to formally select who would take command of the army, Washington's modesty took on an almost comic dimension.
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Perhaps it is not modesty, but a high level of self awareness, that allows him to differentiate between what he likes and what he sees.
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" Such comments seem a matter less of false modesty than of existential necessity, and jibe with her definition of herself: "I'm a pretty antisocial Socialist.
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The best Vivier performances capture his delirious, jeweled grandeur but also his modesty — the earnest intensity of his desire to communicate, even through nonsense syllables.
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And he did it with modesty and kindness that would have been surprising in someone one-tenth as tough and as accomplished as he was.
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Though neither of these concepts is explicit in the document, the teenage Ms. Schreck merrily interprets them as prime examples of the framers' brilliant modesty.
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But more conservative sects are stricter about abiding by religious tenets around modesty and are less willing to add safety features that might draw attention.
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I was never the picture of female modesty, but since I started working at the sauna, I'm slowly getting more and more out of control.
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In someone else this might have read as false modesty, but she came across as someone who knows better than to trust other people's admiration.
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Was the dancer known as Johara, whose sizzling video had become an overnight sensation, wearing the right "shorts," as modesty-protecting undergarments are officially called?
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Comey answered them with such painstaking earnestness and modesty that it was the oratorical equivalent of a student handing a teacher a gleamingly polished apple.
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Groups of friends dared to bare themselves, thanks to the protection of other women and abundant paint used to provide a last vestige of modesty.
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James Shaw Jr. exuded modesty in the hours and days after he wrested an assault rifle from a gunman at a Nashville Waffle House restaurant.
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Admonished for false modesty when he didn't respond, Eddington replied that, on the contrary, he was trying to think of who the third person was.
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This is Pakistan in the early aughts, where expectations for and control over female modesty and behavior extend to the new frontier of the internet.
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I grew up in a Christian household, so a lot of the things that I saw in terms of beauty were about modesty and elegance.
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That's something innumerable writers have done, obviously, but they seemed to do it in a newly dangerous way — with a pitiless, dispassionate modesty of ambition.
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It's pretty well shot too and, even with the track cut down beyond its original modesty, the whole thing works towards a pleasing, slick impression.
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Ostensibly the story is about whether Italy was right to add modesty covers to nude statues on display in the Musei Capitolini during Rouhani's visit.
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But with typical Canadian modesty, Vickers used his recognition to highlight the work of unsung military and enforcement heroes and stress the importance of forgiveness.
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Johanna Vuorelma, political analyst at Helsinki University, said Stubb did not fit the mould of a politician in Finland, where modesty and ordinariness are considered virtues.
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"We decided to develop three styles, based on different levels of modesty," Glover said of the brand's trio of hijab silhouettes, dubbed Lite, Fit, and Sport.
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But even women who are comfortable defining themselves as modest don't all define modesty the same way — even when they are ostensibly in the same group.
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In other words, modesty on its own is not oppressing women — if women in these oppressed communities started wearing bikinis, they'd still continue to be oppressed.
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There's no modesty equivalent of a Vanessa Hudgens (for those with boho style), Emma Watson (for those who prioritize sustainability), or Gigi Hadid (for athleisure-heads).
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Each meeting would have a theme: social justice, charity, modesty, friendship, self-love — topics which did not feel overtly "Catholic" or tied to any specific canon.
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By now, Kirby games shouldn't be unexpectedly fun, but there's a strange air of modesty about each one that leads me to underestimate them every time.
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Some people think this would be tough for me but the truth is I'm a modest person ... Some people tell me modesty is my best quality.
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You taught me that modesty is always the best policy, to see the good in everyone and to stand up for the crazy and less fortunate.
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Between lifts, throws, and other elements performed with startling precision, the pair managed to emote a sexy modesty fitting for both the venue and the film.
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He then told the crowd that modesty was his best quality, before launching into a Jesus joke describing himself as a carpenter working for his father.
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I have to say, outside of a video game, it's hard to find that kind of disparity between the modesty of an action and its fallout.
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He is one of "America's sharpest legal minds...who brings to his work a spirit of decency, modesty, integrity, even-handedness and excellence", the president said.
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But not to regret the word "heart," that June so far away, teeth like hard pearls in a clumsy kiss, the timid hand, the considered modesty.
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He singularly failed to live up to the national expectations of a sportsman, obliterating as he did the vaunted ideals of modesty, decorum and general seemliness.
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"Black was the color of modesty," said Steven Bleicher, author of "Contemporary Color: Theory and Use," and a professor of visual arts at Coastal Carolina University.
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All other concerns — about privacy and modesty in a setting that most people consider almost as safe and intimate as their bedrooms — are beside the point.
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Trump has abandoned the basic modesty code that has always ennobled the American middle class: Don't brag, don't let your life be defined by gilded luxuries.
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What happens to Wendy — and to Lucy — matters a lot, which is to say that 'Wendy and Lucy,' for all its modesty, matters a lot, too.
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By and large, on blogs and social media, women celebrating modest fashion have managed to self-regulate an ethos of respect for different interpretations of modesty.
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These dress code rules seem to exist to police teen girls' modesty, with the onus being placed on them to avoid "distracting" the boys in class.
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Nechy Gottsman, a clerk, says her work is about more than selling fabric — it is about doing a good deed, or mitzvah, by making modesty accessible.
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Not only does the martial art instill strength that might otherwise be depleted by Machin's profession, it also trains people in self-defense, technique, even modesty.
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Washington, who happened to sit near the door, as soon as he heard me allude to him, from his usual modesty darted into the library room.
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The king left the generals squirming by declining to accept the crown for almost two months after his father's death, in an unexpected show of modesty.
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It is modesty, it is ideology, it is culture, it is tradition, it is sacrifice, it is identity — ripping it off is akin to changing skins.
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The combination of modesty and effervescence is the special tonic, and this cast delivers it neatly, especially the gorgeous, buoyant Alban Lendorf as the fisherman hero.
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A stickler for the rule of law, he respected the judges in Jerusalem and the rights of Israel's Arab minority, and was a paragon of modesty.
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" When the Joker-Batwoman (read: Trump-Clinton) presidential election is underway, René and Suchitra make political cartoons that René (with typical modesty) declares "defined the struggle.
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When it comes to the niqab, in the name of representation, I want to make sure it's not reduced over time and the modesty remains intact.
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This song cribs part of its melody from Toni Braxton's "Un-break My Heart," but Mr. Brown strips out the pomp and imbues it with modesty.
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Early rules about swimwear were governed almost exclusively by modesty; women wore long skirts and men were required to wear T-shirts; and progress was glacial.
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Meanwhile, the voluminous crinolines that served as perfect hiding places for cigars and gin when dodging customs also proved a serious hazard to health and modesty.
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He has never been known for his modesty, repeatedly boasting about outsize ambitions like dethroning Verizon and AT&T atop the American wireless industry with Sprint.
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It happened in August, when a number of French seaside towns enacted bans on the full-body swimsuit, designed to respect Muslim modesty codes for women.
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San Francisco 49ers cornerback Richard Sherman is one of the most talented defensive players in the NFL, but he&aposs certainly not known for his modesty.
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" Instead, he writes, "The features of today's Iranian woman include modesty, chastity, eminence, protecting herself from abuse by men, refraining from humiliating herself into appeasing men.
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Modesty Gets You Nowhere During my trial period at the restaurant where I started my new career in the service industry, it suddenly became really busy.
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Under Iran's Islamic law, imposed after the 1979 revolution, women are obliged to cover their hair and wear long, loose-fitting clothes for the sake of modesty.
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Modesty and mysteryBhumibol Adulyadej, the king of Thailand, died on October 13th, aged 903 He acceded to the throne just as the monarchy's golden years were ending.
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Though he attempted to use a "modesty rag" to prevent from being seen, one doctor stressed the silliness of his worries and the seriousness of his health.
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The star went without a bra for the daring look, which completely revealed her nipples underneath it, though she maintained some modesty wearing a visible nude thong.
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Macron, 39, sought to send signals of personal modesty, per Reuters, including by wearing a suit that cost $500 as opposed to a more expensive designer option.
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" It continued: "Students should therefore error [sic] on the side of modesty and formality and not put school administrators in the difficult position of upholding school standards.
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Just remember Evanna Lynch, who played Luna Lovegood, was selected through an open-casting call, and so was Faith Wood-Blagrove who played Modesty in Fantastic Beasts.
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We are all clothed now, my garments like a heavy shroud of modesty, talking as if they all didn't just stare at me naked for 210 minutes.
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Parker sees Housman's habit of plainness and terseness as manifestations of English traits that amount to a sort of polite national understatement: modesty, restraint, stiff-upper-lipness.
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The newspaper talked to two Muslim sisters, Sara and Sondos Elnakib, who said they wore yoga pants and long-sleeve shirts to show modesty at the beach.
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It impedes both modesty and actual swimming, costs more than $100 plus shipping, and can be secured only with an array of hooks, straps and elastic bands.
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I am constantly in awe of the courage and fortitude they show even as their very existence is assumed to violate the modesty and privacy of others.
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Tznius, or modesty, has taken on a renewed focus in recent years, Hasidic Jews and religious experts say, as the wider world encroaches on their insular community.
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For moralizers, the exchange of sex for money poses a threat to "family values" that emphasize the importance of sex within marriage and promote modesty among women.
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The backdrop: There are several types of headscarves worn by Muslim women, but all are generally considered to be symbols of modesty and privacy, per the BBC.
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A similar pattern emerged among men who appeared shy, nervous, or understated: Nonwhites were rejected for being unassertive, but in whites, modesty was seen as a virtue.
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So the investors who helped nurture "unicorns," the start-ups valued at more than $1 billion, are dropping their modesty, and getting ready for a big payday.
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Her modesty belies not only her natural authority but also her extensive gardener's knowledge of pesticides, so handy when your rural enclave is a magnet for homicide.
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In part, the modesty of that response was due to the fact that Chinese leaders are currently more focused on domestic politics than foreign policy, analysts said.
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Besides being an oxymoron, assertive modesty didn't stop Adolf Hitler in the 1920s and 1930s, or any other manipulators of hate and prejudice at any other time.
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Mr. Gordon's "No Anthem" was trembling waves for a small ensemble; Kaki King's guitar pieces relaxed you into their strumming modesty before unexpectedly whipping into dizzying virtuosity.
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This old ideology was revived in the early 1980s by the introduction of hijab, a seemingly innocuous piece of cloth, under the guise of modesty and piety.
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"When we put it all together, we've got to be perhaps the greatest club ever," Coach Bill Sharman said at the time, casting aside traditional coaching modesty.
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Their answer, in a nutshell, was 1968 — specifically, the culture of excess, excuses and permission that abruptly supplanted the old American ethic of modesty, responsibility and restraint.
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Even many hijabis equate modesty with being shy and introverted, when in fact Islamic teachings encourage all Muslims to physically showcase their culture and their religious pride.
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Rajnath Singh, the national home minister, told reporters on Tuesday that "protecting modesty of women is the duty of state government," the Press Trust of India reported.
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True, it might come as a surprise that while the Quran advocates modesty for both women and men, it never even mentions veils, let alone mandates them.
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Many Muslim women cover their heads in public with the hijab as a sign of modesty, although some critics see it as a sign of female oppression.
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"Officers lent the person their jackets to protect what remained of their modesty and accompanied them back to the hotel," a police spokesperson told the Manchester Evening News.
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She maintained her modesty by covering up her backside with a matching chainmail skirt and completed the whole ensemble by designer Laurel DeWitt with dazzling crystal-embellished stilettos.
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While citing the words of others may be a weak attempt at modesty, the letter stands as an obvious effort to add grandiosity to his stature and career.
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As The Guardian reports, not much is known about Hojabri, but she's become the face of a resistance movement against modesty laws for women in the Islamic country.
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In Western countries, at least, observant Muslim, Jewish or Christian women who want to cover their flesh often mix-and-match from collections which care little for modesty.
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When the brown pup unexpectedly jumped into the bath, Thicke's girlfriend April Love Geary wanted to document the moment — but he was more concerned with protecting his modesty.
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One of the many great things about Stevie is she never bothers with false modesty, and she acknowledged her influence on fashion in a 2011 LA Times interview.
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Asian markets were mixed following the data, with the Shanghai Composite down nearly 1 percent and the Australian dollar, a proxy for China plays, modesty lower at $0.7470.
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The point is not that looking back at trauma is inherently complicit with the atrocities observed, but that omission's tonal modesty is also a form of self-preservation.
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They all pleaded guilty to one charge each of "aggravated outrage of modesty ... while using wrongful restraint," a reduced charge as part of a plea bargain with authorities.
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Much of the original's spirit is preserved in John Wick: Chapter 23—there are even more headshots in this one—but that modesty has gone by the wayside.
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The idea that modesty can be a secular and feminist option—an individual's woman's choice to show less rather than more an act of empowerment—has been anathema.
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Historically, khimar refers to any article of clothing that promotes modesty, covering the genitals and breasts of a woman and protecting her from the gaze of unrelated men.
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FGM is associated with cultural ideals of femininity and modesty, such as the belief that removal of body parts that are considered unclean makes girls clean and beautiful.
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And the program effectively evoked his essential modesty and reserve, which were all the more remarkable given his consummate skills and exquisite taste as both organist and choirmaster.
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She conflates their traditionalism—their masculinity, outfits, and sexual modesty—with heterosexuality itself, reflecting a surprising indifference to the fact that queer people were long denied these traditions.
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People were saying "Fuck it" to archaic rules of dressing that lean toward modesty, and allowing just a thin piece of fabric to separate them from the world.
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You could see that in its seizure of opportunity with Cuba and with Iran, but also in its losses-cutting modesty of ambitions on Syria or on Egypt.
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What psychiatry needs to do, she says, is narrow its focus to the most severe forms of mental illness and "make a virtue of modesty" rather than hubris.
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Quicksilver also became, as he puts it with characteristic modesty, "very involved" with Theravada Buddhism, to the point where he helped form a monastery and became a monk.
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For those who had witnessed McIlroy rip a fairway wood from 272 yards at 16 to 20153 feet, his response was delivered without the slightest bit of modesty.
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For instance, it's one of a few in the region where an Islamic dress code for women is not mandatory (although modesty is formally encouraged by the government).
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"I didn't feel like I knew enough to be able to tell a story about him," she said, having arrived, finally, at the simple modesty of self-assurance.
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The movie is about two intrepid adventurers on a perilous journey to learn about the weather (that's the plot, right?), so there's little room for modesty, but still.
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This helps to explain his modesty on America's ability to resolve the long-mounting disintegration of the Middle East, or to reverse Russia's centuries-old reach in Ukraine.
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Since some Islamic women choose not to show their hair to men outside of their families, to protect their modesty and privacy, scheduling a haircut is far from simple.
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Mert Alas & Marcus Piggot Kim covers the magazine's tenth anniversary "Love, Sex, and Madness" issue (because who else could ever?) stark-naked, strategically cradling a leather jacket for modesty.
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This all sounds very impressive, but Samsung also cautions that we'll see a first step at the S8 launch, so expect it to perform with relative modesty at launch.
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She added that women facing calls to cover up are often told it's a matter of modesty, but that the underlying issue has to do with people sexualizing breastfeeding.
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But usually world leaders have the modesty to shroud their intentions in layers of committees and advisors, making it less obvious that decisions ultimately live or die with them.
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Know the Japanese etiquette, such as bringing your own little "modesty towel" and soap to cleanse thoroughly before dipping, naked (no bathing suits allowed), into a communal outdoor pool.
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It is an arena where innovation has been slow and fitful—surpisingly so, perhaps, given peoples' perennial need for clothes and luggage and their attachment to modesty and warmth.
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I was wild, fired up, I told myself that I was born to be happy, that only the weak suffer, and modesty is nothing but adornment for the weak.
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All of which suggests women may prefer the modesty and functionality of fitness trackers like Fitbit, some observers say, while avoiding the fashion bells and whistles of designer smartwatches.
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Scientists should have the wisdom and the modesty to admit that we have no idea what will happen to our planet as climate change continues over the next century.
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But I do not expect that many of them will possess Glazer's unusual combination of brazenness in the way he expressed himself with modesty toward what he was expressing.
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In a tragicomic spectacle in France, armed police officers surrounded a Muslim woman in a bathing outfit designed for religious modesty, as if her garb posed some dire threat.
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"School administrations frequently enforce dress codes and what a properly groomed student should look like, based on white, upper-middle-class norms about femininity and modesty," Roth tells PEOPLE.
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Over the last two years, he's become one of the most visible voices in grime, England's homegrown hip-hop offshoot, with a combination of lyrical aggression and personal modesty.
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"I can sit at my piano and write brilliant observational pop songs all day long but you've got to move on," he told Select in 1999, with characteristic modesty.
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For the people most in the thick of the research on the issue, there's a sense of urgency — but also a feeling of modesty in facing this complex challenge.
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If the hijab or burkini had anything to do with modesty or piety, the Islamic fundamentalists would have sought private beaches, not insisted on forcing themselves on the public.
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This means that schools and sports teams should be mindful that they aren't ostracizing girls based on arbitrary modesty codes that have the effect of penalizing certain body types.
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In the photo, the star looks away from the camera as she reveals a hint of her backside while maintaining some modesty by covering her chest with white bedsheets.
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Stylists say Meghan, who already has a soft spot for Canadian fashion, could further throw this country's fashion industry – known for its craftmanship and modesty – into the runway limelight.
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In Senegal, which is 95 percent Muslim, women are widely expected to remain virgins until marriage and girls are taught that their modesty is key to maintaining family honor.
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Until 1932, when F.D.R. decided to show up to accept his nomination, the candidates themselves skipped the Conventions, citing modesty, a precedent set a century before by Henry Clay.
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He famously appeared naked - reclining on a bearskin rug with his arm strategically positioned for the sake of modesty - in a centerfold in the women's magazine Cosmopolitan in 19776.
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So since we're essentially throwing modesty out the window (to an extent), why not do the same when it comes to our bras (that is, when we're actually wearing them).
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"Fugazi's particularly dogmatic slant emphasized pragmatism, modesty, and fair play – not the first concepts that come to mind when discussing the indisputably punk rock Sex Pistols, for example," Azerrad wrote.
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In general, any economist talking about potential growth should start from a position of modesty: nothing in what we know or have experienced in the past justifies making big promises.
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This little dash of charming false modesty, three songs into the penultimate set of a major festival weekend at Philadelphia's Made in America, is what we expect from Chance now.
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Such seeming modesty focuses attention on other parts of the body, chests and biceps and quads--areas that can be developed and filled out in ways the sexual organs cannot.
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According to Human Rights Watch, some 1,000 women in Pakistan are killed each year over issues relating to family honor, the idea of going against conservative values governing women's modesty.
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Men don't get to his position by virtue of modesty and self-deprecation, but Chuck takes a big step by acknowledging that confidence and bravado are not always virtues, either.
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Jason Calacanis cuts an unusual figure for a financial savior in Silicon Valley, where it's fashionable for the world's richest men to feign embarrassed modesty about their wealth and power.
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Stinking Bishop is so bloody English, in fact, that its creator professes he "still doesn't know how to make cheese," demonstrating the archetypal false modesty that Americans find so bewildering.
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Christian women, like the swimwear designer Jessica Rey, may express their vision of modesty by eschewing bikinis in favor of bathing suits that expose their legs but cover their midriffs.
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The books' modesty of scale appears like a rebellion against importance, but they are insistent, even a little pedantic — self-conscious intellectual sallies that bring a dignified brevity to nonfiction.
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She was dressed formally, with a dark wig covering her hair to meet the modesty requirements of her sect, and a tailored business suit, its skirt reaching below her knees.
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As the 21-year-old actress, writer and editor Tavi Gevinson told me, the relative modesty — or lack thereof — of her clothing choices reflects more than her own individual preferences.
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Don't underestimate Clippinger's modesty — her openness to working in disparate materials, to utilizing a range of process, and to embracing the possibilities of collaboration bespeak a creative confidence and boldness.
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Alexander-Murray would have been, for all its policy modesty, a rather remarkable political achievement after eight years of partisan gridlock over Obamacare that culminated in last year's dramatic debate.
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Mr. Hickenlooper hasn't completely lost his sense of shyness (in spite of doing things like playing banjo on stage with the String Cheese Incident), although now it reads as modesty.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Last February, the Egyptian novelist Ahmed Naji received a two-year prison sentence for "violating public modesty" by publishing excerpts from his graphic novel.
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Modesty has never been a safeguard against degradation or rape, and we know that a rapist is no less likely to hurt a woman simply because he's married to her.
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An Eastern European Jew who, after a lengthy American detour, immigrated to Palestine in 1921, Meir embodied the movement's socialist and egalitarian modesty as well as its tough-minded militarism.
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Liberals have long argued in favor of an extensive understanding of individual rights, especially on issues such as privacy, a stance to which Mr. Bork's judicial modesty was a correction.
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Resembling a small hut on wagon wheels, the popular bathing machines were intended for holidaymakers — mostly women — who wanted to take a dip in the sea while protecting their modesty.
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After a comically outrageous performance in Houston's win, Fuller showed some serious modesty when talking about the impact his fellow wide receiver, DeAndre Hopkins, has on coverages during Texans games.
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She is the first American Olympic athlete in history who will participate in her sport while wearing a hijab, a veil some Muslim women don as a gesture of modesty.
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Maybe we also could do more to leaven our politics with intellectual modesty, and a less apocalyptic vision of what might happen if we don't get our way right now.
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When Rwigara first made her announcement to run for the presidency, nude photo-shopped pictures surfaced in an attempt to disable her in a society where modesty is a virtue.
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It's the strangely showy modesty of painting in oil on sheets of paper not much bigger than letter size, but then taping multiple sheets together to get a bigger picture.
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"Most of the girls I meet are reluctant to swim or scuba dive because of their modesty preferences, and they find it difficult finding the right modest solution," says Alosaimi.
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This winning performance emphasized the modesty, in the best sense, of the piece, which emerged as a lucidly structured score with intricate fugato episodes and inventive developments of melodic ideas.
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Just keep work definitively out of this particular time and space, and go about your business with the same modesty anybody should exercise in a locker room of any size.
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Thirteen-year-old leading lady Saara Chaudry is a joy as Parvana, a fierce young girl who masquerades as a boy to feed her family under the Taliban's draconian modesty laws.
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It's about negotiating that identity as an independent woman and a daughter in a society that still places a lot of reverence on filial piety, family values, modesty, and the like.
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Many of us have worried that the increasingly circuslike, invasive, round-the-clock nature of modern campaigns would frighten off anyone with an inkling of modesty, an iota of self-doubt.
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The show looks like fun, the video above is full of Gervais' trademark modesty, and as an added bonus he even manages to squeeze in a joke about his own penis.
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The potential charges against Hojabri were not specified, but she is likely to be accused of running afoul of Islamic codes of behavior that call for modesty in attire and behavior.
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I wonder how many of them look back later in life with fluffed and lined pockets, only to yearn for their past that focused primarily on the modesty of their principles.
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But what she lacks in worldliness, she more than makes up for in hard work, determination and a kind of modesty unusual among chefs who have attained the level she has.
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In her cover story Brinkley bares it all, posing completely nude on the beach, but maintaining some modesty by covering herself up with just one large palm leaf by L'Atelier Rouge.
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"We shouldn't have to hide to not be objectified," noted one fan, while others chimed in with their own experiences of seeing women running afoul of the so-called modesty rules.
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When House Speaker Paul Ryan abdicates all civic and constitutional duty in pursuit of massive tax cuts for affluent people, he at least does so with a measure of false modesty.
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And if what should have seemed disingenuous or else a bad case of false modesty somehow rang true, that is because the listener had already heard the tale of the nose.
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Beyond all of that, the move to covering up and speaking up also points to the comeback of modesty, a concept that until now has been rarely taken seriously by feminists.
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Since the rise of anti-hijab legislation by rightwing governments in Europe, showing tolerance for the tradition of Islamic "modesty" dressing has become a point of pride for the European left.
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Orthodox Jewish beliefs demand modesty in dress, and a strict separation of the sexes, and those are the beliefs to which the taxpayer-owned-and-operated Metropolitan Recreation Center will yield.
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But church leaders said they did fit with his message of modesty, looking especially minuscule when wedged into motorcades of mostly mammoth sport utility vehicles rolling through the streets of Manhattan.
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They all share the Nordstrom dedication to their work and a certain Seattle-style modesty, a quality not natural to the city in which the company is making its latest bet.
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Our president embraces pompous certitude as a sign of strength and scorns modesty (and/or humility) as a manifest weakness within himself and his adversaries and most probably among his advisers.
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In many ways the Nobel prizes are a Swedish version of the Oscars—with seriousness substituted for superfice, substance for style, and genuine modesty among the winners for the false sort.
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That's why the idea that modesty does not have to mean timidity is so important, for both Muslim women in America and for women of all cultures, races, sizes, and religions.
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Even at their height, they never reached a critical mass, remaining instead scattered and mostly minuscule attempts at social tinkering—Trialville, as one called itself, in an uncharacteristic burst of modesty.
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It takes some combination of institutions: marriage, religion, female modesty/gatekeeping (yup, females have a role in checking men), fatherhood, and to a lesser degree, police, lawsuits, human resource departments, etc.
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As Muslim women, we're trying to participate in general life and maintain our modesty at the same time, but [things like this poll are] making it very difficult for us to integrate.
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"In all honesty and candor and modesty, I always wanted the character to have that kind of upward mobility because it mirrored the American dream," Guillaume told the Washington Post in 1985.
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China, which sometimes opts for modesty in unveiling plans lest they fall flat, did not hold back on April 1st when it revealed those for the "Xiongan New Area" in Hebei province.
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What he lacks in digits and modesty, Pinocchio makes up his sheer bravado: he stands nude save for a little sailor hat (possibly fashioned from paper) and shamelessly promotes the Opel Kadett.
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In the summer of 2016, France was roiled by debates over the burkini — full-body swimsuits that comply with Islamic modesty standards — after several Mediterranean coastal towns banned them on their beaches.
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While the beach can take whatever body we give it, a little more coverage never hurt (especially when we're not-so-into sun exposure, or are aiming for a bit more modesty).
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To illustrate modesty, senior curator Paola Antonelli included a range of clothing pieces that span a variety of cultures, including a hijab, a bikini, a very timely slip dress, and leather pants.
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Skirts were all about femininity and creating curves while retaining your — you guessed it — modesty, but then Marilyn Monroe stood on top of a subway grid and we all lost our shit.
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Writing like this — with such exacting immediacy — places the reader in a different kind of relationship to poetry, and does so in a way that extols the virtues of modesty and sincerity.
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"The fact that modesty is [no longer] overlooked by the big international brands [means] there's more care in the way that it's being presented," says Vogue Arabia's editor in chief, Manuel Arnaut.
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In the real world, the hosts are naked and inhuman; in the park, they're meant to be entirely believable characters to the guests, and along with that comes (relative) on-screen modesty.
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But forbidding religiously conservative women from using the beach, or pools, will only reinforce the notion that one cannot be a law-abiding, proud French citizen while fulfilling basic requirements for modesty.
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Yet her modesty, and her devotion to the ideal of achievement without the need for name dropping, recall another, lesser-known side of Washington: the meritocratic culture of its vast civil service.
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For all of his hotheaded temperament, Coriolanus is depicted as a man of personal modesty and candor whose frank distrust of the general public — and its fickle opinions — proves to be justified.
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In the midst of this turmoil, it's worth reconsidering a return to those simple virtues of modesty, humility and selflessness, embodied by the great leaders in America's history -- starting with our first.
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Other times modesty is important after my team wins a game; many times instead of celebrating in front of the other team we will wait until we get into the locker room.
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Taylor and his colleagues embraced a posture of epistemological modesty, threw off the ideological style of thinking and began to notice something: that the central debate in our politics is completely bogus.
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News Analysis TORGAU, Germany — Angela Merkel has spent her political career playing down her gender: shunning a feminist label, offering modesty, caution and diligent preparation as an implicit contrast to male swagger.
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By the very fact of having spent time alone with him, they have, in the eyes of rigorist teachings of Islam, violated the rules of modesty that women are required to follow.
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Because he regards his nerve-racking job with a certain sense of awe and his professional efforts with a degree of modesty, Harry is much more complicated than the conventional fearless hero.
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"The way that [White] used modesty in the letter as sort of like a call to women to do better was the same argument that I had seen a lot," Jarrett said.
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For me, anchoring the way I dress around modesty helps me remember my character: my contributions to my family and my community, how I respond to adversity, and the way I treat others.
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Although given that he'd probably been eating kale and raw chicken breasts for four years in a row, it probably doesn't really make up for 48 straight months of dietary modesty, does it?
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Though I generally eschew "what if" questions and playacting history, I pose this question to instill in my students modesty in judgment, to give them some sense of the terrible conundrums Jews faced.
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Originally from New Jersey, she is the first of her Pakistani family to have been born in the U.S., and expectations of modesty and chastity were impressed on her from a young age.
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A: Coming from a modest economic upbringing, I learned early about how limiting and uninteresting self-satisfaction was as a goal in terms of using wealth - and how important modesty and philanthropy are.
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What's most exciting about the changing perceptions surrounding modesty and conservative attire is that it's in part a result of a female-driven movement, with women like Torkia and Vernon at its helm.
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"Sheila Abdus-Salaam set an example for generations to come, as much for her brilliance, moral conviction, and remarkable professional achievements as for her kindness, modesty, and understated yet unfailing generosity," Lester wrote.
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Mr Obama presented Mr Garland as a "serious man and exemplary judge": one of "America's sharpest legal minds…who brings to his work a spirit of decency, modesty, integrity, even-handedness and excellence".
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A basic lesson of sampling is that one should have less confidence in the results the smaller the sample is, which in turn implies great modesty about what might happen in the future.
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"I wanted to introduce a full range of clothing to suit a Muslim woman — or any woman — that wanted a bit of modesty and wanted to participate in any sporting activities," she added.
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Limiting press attendance inside the party to four hand-selected journalists — including one, Charlotte Curtis, from this newspaper — he heightened its air of exclusivity while managing potential criticism about the affair's overall modesty.
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And like Ms. Rey, whose line is made in America, Ms. Elturk would assert that her religious beliefs have made her as committed to ethical production as she is to modesty in fashion.
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Most are design- and trend-savvy millennials who are opening up restaurants and boutiques, organizing street festivals and supper clubs, and daring to stand out in a society that has typically rewarded modesty.
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Don't get me wrong be boastful to the other teams is wrong but winning something because you have earned it and celebrate because of it fits into my definition of modesty just fine.
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"Modesty should be paramount when handling these questions," he said, noting that much is still unknown about the consciousness of vegetative patients, and that legislation could never cover each and every individual case.
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But there's a growing wave of women who are speaking openly and unabashedly about their health issues, giving the middle finger to modesty and bringing these once-private struggles into the public sphere.
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RICHARD M. FRAUENGLASSHUNTINGTON, N.Y. To the Editor: I am an admirer of David Brooks and welcomed his novel solution to the many ills that beset America today: assertive modesty, as he called it.
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But there is so much more that makes Altuve, 23, so popular among his teammates, including his playful and infectious personality, his charisma, his modesty and even his clubhouse and dugout karaoke performances.
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The modesty is partly a matter of circumstances — "Cane River" was a low-budget, independent production shot on two locations in Louisiana, Natchitoches Parish and New Orleans — and partly a matter of style.
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The intimacy and modesty of his usual performance space — a studio rather than a theater — paired with the easy grace of his dancers and his ear for interesting scores make for satisfying performances.
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Most are design and trend-savvy millennials who are opening up restaurants and boutiques, organizing street festivals and supper clubs, and daring to stand out in a society that has typically rewarded modesty.
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With the side of her body facing the camera, Kardashian kneels on a bed to reveal a hint of her backside, while maintaining some modesty by covering her chest with some bed sheets.
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With similar modesty, Ball has based her recent paintings on photographs of immigrants taken by Augustus Frederick Sherman, a registry clerk and amateur photographer who worked at Ellis Island from 1892 to 1925.
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"The perception of modesty before was so demure and considered [to be] something you can't have fun with," says Dima Ayad, a Dubai-based designer and founder of her eponymous size-inclusive clothing label.
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France is the only country that has banned hijab-wearing, and they have done it because Muslims in that country have harassed women who don't exhibit enough modesty in what they wear in public.
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"I just add organic food coloring to pancake mix and I put each one in a squirt bottle and I'll just kind of squirt it out on to the pan," he says with modesty.
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Defeating enemies by solving puzzles, or simply standing back and letting your companion, Alyx Vance, kill everyone for you, is perhaps a different approach to video game combat, appealing to players' initiative and modesty.
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Click through the gallery above to learn how modesty, function and the evolution of style have affected the suits you take to the water, and look below for a collection of facts about swimwear.
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We bite into the dish—oozing yolk, warm pesto'd vegetables, and rich goat cheese all tangled together into one knockout punch of flavor—and it's clear that modesty is a strong suit of hers.
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The national embarrassment over the fuerdai has gotten so bad that the government ordered 70 Chinese heirs to attend a reeducation program to reacquaint themselves with the values of modesty, reciprocity, and filial piety.
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For 20 years, to accommodate local Orthodox Jewish women whose religious modesty prevents them from swimming in mixed company, the Metropolitan Recreation Centre has reserved time four days each week for a "women's swim".
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There are informal 'modesty police' in some sects of Judaism who have been known to throw stones at women and girls and heckle them for having skirts that are too short, or wearing pants.
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It is the latest example of the long-running tensions between France's forceful — some say inconsistent — commitment to secularism and the desire of many Muslims to express traditional values like modesty through their attire.
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The spindly compositions that Valerie Teicher records as Tei Shi are fierce in their modesty, making spare use of whispered high notes and loud screams for a well-studied blend of Janet and Gwen.
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"Ariel Foxman, InStyle & StyleWatch Editorial Director"Bill Cunningham's lens and body of work is iconic, but what makes it all legendary is that its focus consistently spotlighted his very own wonder, discipline, and modesty.
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Some ruffled leopard baby doll dresses worn over matching tights fit so badly (the dresses, not the tights) that the model Joan Smalls appeared to be clutching a jacket closed to preserve her modesty.
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" Salma's past goes unmentioned, "out of respect for her privacy", before a backtrack: "the privacy rights of fictional characters are questionable—to be frank, they are nonexistent—and so we hereby abandon our modesty.
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State of the Art Jason Calacanis cuts an unusual figure for a financial savior in Silicon Valley, where it's fashionable for the world's richest men to feign embarrassed modesty about their wealth and power.
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Many of the senator's supporters, ranging from his Republican colleagues in the Senate to current and former staffers to home state friends and constituents, praise the senator for his modesty and courtesy and manners.
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In the faraway land of not-too-long ago, it was judicial conservatives who invoked the virtues of judicial modesty and relied on doctrines like mootness and standing to keep cases out of court.
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Its brevity is matched by the modesty of its proposals, which take a back seat to the overriding promise to "get Brexit done"—a phrase that appears in the document more than 20 times.
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It was a period whose values were forged during the Great Depression, tested in the bloodiest war and expressed most clearly at the personal level by the interlocking virtues of modesty, courage and conviction.
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"With the melting pot of cultures, we have to approach our merchandise mix with consideration to the different societal standards of formality and modesty in the workplace and social environment," said Lim and Halim.
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In fact, he's so cautiously cognizant in his modesty—save for a few Instagram-worthy modelling posts here and there—that he doesn't even credit himself on many of the projects he's part of.
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"I could never have begun to do this project without their experience and expertise to back up my complete lack of experience and knowledge," he told Hyperallergic, with more than a hint of modesty.
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The Valerian actress showed off a lot of skin in a structured silver sequin mini dress from Atelier Versace Couture's fall 2017 collection with a nude slip underneath to maintain a little bit of modesty.
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When he spoke in his essay on Marshall of a master economist as "mathematician, historian, statesman, philosopher" Keynes could have been describing himself (and perhaps he was: modesty was certainly not part of the recipe).
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That modesty, and the fact that he's remained independent of corporate influence and ownership throughout his time as executive designer and owner of his eponymous label, is just a fraction of what keeps him going.
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In the 1,400 page charge sheet, the Delhi Police has also charged Pachauri with stalking, 'outraging the modesty of a woman', and criminal intimidation of the complainant, under relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code.
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"I will say with modesty that thousands of people in Europe owe their lives to the hundreds of workers [we have] in Herzliya," Hulio said, referring to the Israeli town where the company is based.
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It provides dryness and warmth when one needs it most and modesty when instant covering-up is comme il faut; it can carry a surprising amount of social weight, the secret flag of body politics.
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The image is from a series of portraits the artist shot of Japanese women who are all over the age of 50, showing that modesty does not preclude tendencies like rough sex at any age.
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After that, he was a living icon of his sport, popping up at hockey events — a throwback, an ambassador, carrying the aura of one of the greatest stars, but true to the code of modesty.
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"I will say with modesty that thousands of people in Europe owe their lives to the hundreds of workers [we have] in Herzliya," he said referring to the Israeli town where the company is based.
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The word "clueless" may appear in the subtitle, but it's false modesty, as it would seem that Tarney's biggest misstep is buying Harry a Peter Pan costume for Halloween when he wanted to be Wendy.
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For the past 20 years the Metropolitan Recreation Center pool has blocked off certain hours for female-only swimming in consideration of the local Hasidic Jewish population, which abides by strict rules pertaining to modesty.
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Troubled by the sight of her young niece trying to play netball in an unwieldy combination of hijab and team uniform, she decided to design something suitable for Muslim sensibilities that combined modesty and practicality.
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The moment the modesty laws were imposed in 1979, women from different backgrounds—both those who rejected the practice and those who wore hijabs but didn't believe it should be mandated—banded together and organized.
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" He is so modest that, at one point, he offered an apology for his modesty, observing that "self-deprecation can be a little bit overbearing on the person who is forced to listen to it.
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On the contrary, representatives from each of the Abrahamic religions had gathered during fashion month at New York University for the Meeting Through Modesty fashion symposium to discuss something they take very seriously: modest style.
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Similarly, many women have replaced dupattas and chadors — the traditional ways of showing modesty in public — with head scarves and cloaks similar to those worn by relatives in the West, Saudi Arabia or the Gulf.
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This method is familiar enough to anyone who has ever watched television, as are its rhetorical flourishes — feigned naïveté, false modesty, hand-wringing solemnity and other devices, all enacted for the benefit of the audience.
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Her little sister Lyn prides herself on being the kind of glamorous that both announces itself immediately and feigns modesty, maybe best exemplified by her tendency to go jogging in a full face of makeup.
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A. While some people say they find it more comfortable to cross their legs at the ankles or knees while sitting, in most cases the position is habitually chosen because of custom, etiquette or modesty.
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Yet for all extravagance of Mr. Browne's vision and the modesty of Ms. Bode's, what was most notable for Mr. Pask in the year gone by was the humblest of utilitarian garments: the chore coat.
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Starting off small Expectations that a wave of protests on different issues could coalesce into a movement of national political change are tempered by the modesty of some of the goals that are inspiring marchers.
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Some 500 women are killed each year in Pakistan by relatives who feel their family has been shamed by a daughter or sister fraternizing with men, eloping or otherwise infringing conservative demands on women's modesty.
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"A lot of times we simply have been mistaught what modesty or humility really is, and it doesn't have anything to do with receiving positive feedback or a compliment," said Denise Dudley, a behavioral psychologist.
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The partition that divides the two is seven feet high and "modesty regulations," enforced by security guards and ushers paid by the Western Wall Heritage Foundation and controlled by the Western Wall rabbi, are medieval.
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She went on to become America's first professional woman astronomer, the first woman to join the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and, along with other firsts, a figure of immense power and genuine modesty.
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"[Some] women do not like the 'moral' implications [of modesty] that there is one way women should dress," says Sonia Trehan from RŪH Collective, a modest-based fashion brand that's quickly gained a cult following online.
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Inside, a white pillow inflates explosively — in milliseconds — to nestle the driver, while an air-filled crinoline curtain explodes from the roof edge, to envelop the scene, not for modesty but to save us from ourselves.
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And yet, for much of the movie, Etty refuses to show her face, either for fear of reprisals, or because of the lingering effect of the stringent modesty laws imposed on women in the Hasidic community.
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With $15 million in Series A funding and the support of Italian business magnate Nicola Bulgari, The Modist represents the beginning of a new and auspicious era of modesty, with innovators like Guenez leading the way.
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Some 500 women are killed every year in Pakistan by relatives who feel their family has been shamed by a daughter or sister hanging out with men, eloping or otherwise infringing conservative demands on women's modesty.
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With almost painful modesty of ambition Mr Obama noted that guns kill 30,000 Americans each year, and suggested that lowering that toll to 28,000 would still spare 2000 families from the loss of a loved-one.
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"I have selected a nominee who is widely recognized not only as one of America's sharpest legal minds, but someone who brings to his work a spirit of decency modesty, integrity, evenhandedness and excellence," Obama said.
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And though all her life she seems to have lived with a sense of modesty about her talents, insisting that Lowell was the actual genius in the family, there was, perhaps, in there a final duality.
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The proliferation of new goods aimed at maintaining modesty, in particular shells, which are sold in a rainbow of colors at Hasidic specialty shops like Shell Station, allow women to find better prices and wider selections.
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"I've selected a nominee who is widely recognized not only as one of America's sharpest legal minds but someone who brings to his work a spirit of decency, modesty, integrity, even-handedness and excellence," Obama said.
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" Jack El-Hai at Wonders & Marvels writes that none of Ladd's masks are known to survive today, and her "modesty about her war work probably contributed to the quickness with which her accomplishments disappeared from memory.
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And yet what's less discussed is how it has also enabled buildings that are remarkable for their modesty, for how they try not to supersede the realities of their surrounding geography, but accommodate themselves to it.
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Teachers of Islam extolled the virtue of modesty, including the full covering of women's bodies and hair, and only women of European or Coptic Christian heritage had ever entered the contest — never a Muslim like Shafik.
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They fended off specific accusations of wrongdoing with a variety of excuses, blaming everything from shirtless on-field modesty to terrible tattoos, all of which drew howls and scowls from players on the other 29 teams.
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"I had told you I did not print," Dickinson once wrote to Higginson, suggesting that it wasn't shyness or modesty that kept her from publishing; it was a fierce constancy to her vision of the page.
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But as in other places where the militants imposed their creed, the new rules took enforced modesty to such an extreme that it riled families in Mosul, who described how they quickly began to feel suffocated.
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That wariness and his advocacy of free trade put him at odds with Trump but also make him a prudent counterbalance, if Trump can find the modesty and confidence to size up the situation that way.
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But there is modesty and slyness in Sokurov, as well as a taste for the broad sweep of history, and this is where "Francofonia" scores, guiding us into the shadowy alcoves that house the barely remembered.
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On "Open the Gate," the only track exceeding 10 minutes, the guitarist Charles Altura takes a solo that begins with tuneful modesty, then gives way to a cascade of distorted cries over a writhing drum solo.
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Here I was, a bit star-struck, telling him a sheepish "Thank you for everything," and his response, "I'm glad you like my stories," sounded genuinely self-effacing, not magnanimous in today's way of fake modesty.
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"So Bosly took a photo with her children in her bikini, with "no cover up, no board shorts, no 'modesty towel,' no filters," so that her children can "remember us enjoying this day together, cellulite and all.
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More broadly, Catholic circles have reacted warmly; the film treats the nuns' plight "with modesty and audacity", said the head of an organisation of monks and nuns in France, where the film was released on February 10th.
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Modesty, originalism, stare decisis, all these supposedly conservative judicial principles, all have the hoof prints of the Roberts Five all across their backs, wherever those principles got in the way of wins for the big Republican interests.
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"I just want to make sure that what I do is at least at M.L.B. Network level — maybe the bottom of the bar they set, but I want to be halfway professional," Emrick said with characteristic modesty.
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Dozens of hotels and resorts on Turkey's shores, featuring separate pools and beaches for men and women to meet religious strictures on modesty, are attracting families from Turkey, the Middle East and Muslim communities in the West.
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Those uncomfortable images have come to dominate the ongoing debate over identity and assimilation as France's coastal municipalities attempt to enforce new bans on the "burkini," the full-body bathing suit designed to accommodate Islamic modesty codes.
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" It unfolds not on Middle East battlefields, but on the "many television and internet networks which are busy diverting the hearts and minds of our youth away from religion, our sacred beliefs, morality, modesty and the like.
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The footage caused an uproar on social media, and authorities have launched an investigation as well as detained the nightclub's manager on the grounds of "violation against good morals and public outrage against modesty," reports the BBC.
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"Modesty" in a Muslim context may be expressed by wearing loosefitting pants and covering one's head with a hijab, while an Orthodox Jewish woman may wear skirts or dresses only and cover her head with a wig.
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In a leaf from a 1498 gradual, a book containing the musical elements of the Mass, Mary Magdalene is shown ascending to heaven while covered in her long, brown hair — a sign of her newfound saintly modesty.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads The Egyptian novelist Ahmed Naji, who is currently serving a two-year prison sentence for "violating public modesty" with a work of fiction, will have his final appeal on December 4.
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Modesty is a great thing to have because it spares the feelings of others who maybe did not do as well at something that you excelled at and sharing your success would only make them feel worse.
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This is partly due to the lasting fame of Darwin's opus, "On the Origin of Species," but some argue it is also due to Wallace's extraordinary modesty — he lauded Darwin's work and humbly downplayed his own contributions.
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Heather Ainsworth, a photographer, and I approached buggy owners and found them receptive and happy to chat, but not eager to have their names or direct photographs printed in the newspaper, because of religious rules about modesty.
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Irene Lu, a student from Parsons who worked on the gown, said that a challenge the entire class struggled with was how to make a gown that would give clinicians easy access but also allow for modesty.
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It lifts and softens out my natural shape for modesty (though you'll probably want to skip wearing this to work if the shirt is light-colored or tight; there's some nipple visibility), and doesn't add any bulk.
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Rafael's on-court attitude might be relentlessly upbeat, but the default mode for nephew and uncle off court is pessimism, which can sometimes seem like false modesty but has been there too long to be a facade.
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In the electoral reckoning, civility had been trumped by hostility, respect by chauvinism, tolerance by bigotry, truth by fabrication and deceit, privacy by exposure, modesty by exhibitionism, achievement by fame, shame by shamelessness, and bridges by walls.
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At the same time in the West, the heads of married European women were covered with wimples, headdresses that concealed not just the hair but also the neck and chin as a show of modesty and rank.
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He laid back on the bed in his cowboy boots and a production assistant played thick layers of folded sheets and towels over his pelvis (this "modesty buffer" allows actors several inches of separation as they simulate sex).
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