Word: immodest
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...capacity for analyzing warmth into a chemical substance, for abstracting human beings into symbols... Here in Mexico they see only the present... Poor white man, wandering and lost in his proud possession of a dimension in which bodies become invisible to the naked eye, as if staring were an immodest...
...noting small, important events. Preparing to make love, a woman in one of the stories "breathed deeply becuase of having been alone for a year or two. She put her two hands over her ribs to hold her heart in place and also out of modesty to quiet its immodest thud...
...Nixon's Inaugural Ball, "Big John" Alessio was a seemingly model citizen-president of the Tijuana Rotary Club, a director of the San Diego Convention and Visitors Bureau, recipient of an honorary doctorate of law from the University of San Diego. "I don't want to be immodest," Alessio once said, "but I've been a wonderful fellow...
...coeducation and year-round operation, Kemeny is not planning anything drastic. "Dartmouth," he says, "is larger than most small colleges and does not have the big universities' problem of tending to splinter into unrelated pieces. I want to keep it that way." But he does have an immodest ambition: "That in ten years Dartmouth will have the best undergraduate-education program in America...
Alas, the flood of what Pope Paul calls "immodest fashion" was too much for Sister Fiorella. She disappeared from St. Peter's last week-a casualty, the Vatican announced, of "nervous depression." A novice nun has replaced...