Word: immodest
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...GELDOF Not to be immodest, but the first one was perfect in almost every sense. Artistically, people seemed to up the ante, and the performances were pretty great across the board. Huge amounts of money were raised, not a penny lost, and politically it elevated the issue onto the global table. The whole thing just worked, unbelievably. So you f___ with that legacy at your peril. Then there's the personal thing. David Bowie was on a high afterward, and he said, "Let's do this every year." I said, "Go on, you f_______ do it then...
...Woody family the way music may run in yours. Two brothers wrestled, a cousin is on the Annapolis team, and her uncle is one of the coaches. Her other uncles wrestled too. Strict Christians, they are not enthusiastic about boys facing girls on the mat. They think it's immodest, and it somehow upsets their notion that females should defer to males. Her uncles are not alone. Girls who wrestle boys routinely endure heckling, forfeits and what they feel are unfair calls. But Woody, an Olympic hopeful for 2008, will not be deterred...
When the Iranian government prohibited dressing in an un-Islamic way—requiring men and women to dress modestly, which, for women, includes wearing a headscarf—it was acting out of a concern for the common good. It believes that immodest dress in human society results in an excessively sexual society. By observing our society today, any skeptical American can understand what an excessively sexual society is, and what the repercussions of creating such a society...
Charlize Theron, in a starkly contrasting follow-up to her role in Monster, embodies this second kind of idealism as Gilda Bessé. Gilda is the kind of clichéd wise-cracking beauty that can only exist in movies: she’s bold, intelligent, entirely immodest and incredibly provocative. Her only fault, as far as her love interest Guy (Stuart Townsend) can see, is that she lives “in a cocoon” and completely ignores the caustic contemporary politics that consume his passions; she doesn’t care about anything or anyone beyond herself...
...immodest as he may be about the “Best Bartender” title, he seems even more proud of being “known as the Grafton Street bartender,” as he puts...