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Word: immodest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Professor Bybee has been well-noticed on the Harvard campus for years now, first catching attention with his impeccable sartorial style and then keeping it with his inimitable wit and charm. He is also known for hiring fairly good-looking, albeit immodest, teaching fellows...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Letters | 11/10/1999 | See Source »

...apparent that Monica Lewinsky is a very immodest young woman who has a great deal to be modest about." KEN HIGSON Kelowna...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 5, 1999 | 4/5/1999 | See Source »

...book has touched a nerve in a society overdosed on sex and emerging from a most immodest year of sexual scandal. (Is it any surprise that sweeter days of swing dancing and Shakespeare are all the rage?) Shalit defends, at times compellingly, shame, privacy, gallantry and sexual reticence, if not virginity until marriage. Without these, she says, women have lost power, consigned to "dreary hookups" or sexual violence. "We want our 'feminine mystique' back," she writes, "and with it male honor." Sitting in a Manhattan restaurant, modestly attired in dark tights and a calf-length, buttoned-up olive shirtwaist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modestly Provocative | 3/1/1999 | See Source »

...does "sound rather un-Christian" to qualify one's forgiveness. True, forgiveness can be very difficult. It would be immodest, if not profane, for any of us to claim that we could act similarly to Pope John Paul II when he extended his unsolicited forgiveness to his would-be assassin in 1981. But we can admire this deed as a model for emulation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kilson Must Tell Us When It Is Time for Forgiveness | 2/21/1996 | See Source »

...Dole. "This is about the White House leveling with the American people and not letting it drip, drip, drip out as the American people find out." For his part, Foster is taking his cues from the world of heavyweight boxing: "Am I intimidated? No. And I'm not being immodest, I'm not being cocky...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOSTER WADES IN | 5/1/1995 | See Source »

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