Word: immodest
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...made a lot of really bad furniture. His business was hand-to-mouth. I proposed seven or eight projects. The pieces I've done for him have already become iconic." The title of his monograph, Karim Rashid: I Want to Change the World, is not ironic, just characteristically immodest...
...will be the only flesh-and-blood celebrity in the pantheon of adorable creatures Disney uses to put a face on its entertainment empire. Why not? After all, Tiger has the innocent looks and sunny disposition of Disney's famous character. One might quibble, of course, with his immodest evaluation of his feat. "It will probably go down as one of the top moments in our sport," he said of his victory, after donning the green winner's jacket. Don't hold back your feelings, Tiger. No "I'm going to Disney World...
...honor history while at the same time carrying the art form of presidential campaigning into the post-Clinton era. In the 19th Century, many presidential candidates thought it unseemly to do actual campaigning for the office, the thought being that to do so would be not only immodest but also a kind of irrelevant intrusion upon the public's deliberations. Besides, the party was taking care of business. Thus Ulysses S. Grant in 1868 retired to Galena, Illinois, and demurely waited for November. William McKinley withdrew to his front porch in Ohio and ran the race in a rocking chair...
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...
...apparent that Monica Lewinsky is a very immodest young woman who has a great deal to be modest about." KEN HIGSON Kelowna...