modesty

Van Dyk chronicles these lives with a modesty that runs counter to the script’s potentially melodramatic setup.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 24, 2026

His proposed ballroom “represents another way this presidency has abandoned its imperative of projecting modesty, openness, and stability,” the architect and historian Neil Flanagan complained in the Atlantic this month.

From Slate ● May 18, 2026

They read midlife modesty, not stoke; they’re lacking in the joyous, playful audacity that Kasparian and her team infused into their groundbreaking designs.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2026

I nodded, not seeing any point in false modesty.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss

To make one costume seem like many, women are buying in vast quantities dickies, jabots, fichus, gilets, ruches, berthas, bibs, piccadillies, collets, modesties and ruffs.

From Time Magazine Archive

This is no time for idle vanities," he said; "it's no time to indulge unreal modesties; and you have none of either if it were.

From The Shadow of a Crime A Cumbrian Romance by Sir Hall Caine

There are modesties in religion as in morals,—inner shrines to be defended at any and all costs.

From The Quickening by E. M. Ashe

You were sent for; and     there is a kind of confession in your looks, which your modesties     have not craft enough to colour.

From The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

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

From The Virginians by William Makepeace Thackeray