How To Use Immodest In A Sentence
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But this upsurge in immodesty applies to child rearing as well.
Letters to the Editor
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They thought it was immodest for both sexes to swim together.
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Then their women are so immodest; striding about in ball-rooms with very little on, and embracing strange men in a whirligig which they call dancing, but very unlike the dignified movements which our male dancers exhibit in the Confucian temple.
The Civilization of China
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Adriana asked, bracing herself for more of his charmingly unrestrained immodesty.
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At the same time without being immodest, I would say we are the original reformers and nobody can take that away from us.
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The standard condemnation of people who use ‘I’ too much is that they're too egocentric or immodest.
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Being alone and immodestly dressed is a deadly combination.
Protecting Our Daughters
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But, such prices are hard to resist, and apparently this has started the downward trend in the way we dress: "cheap, convenient, ugly, immodest and unfeminine" is easier than sewing your own appropriate clothing.
Painting Inspired Dress # 1
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‘Paul has already made them see the unfitness of the unveiled head for woman, its immodesty and unwomanliness, and now, with that impression on their minds, he asks if it is proper to pray to God in such unseemly fashion’.
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This was a reaction to the growing diffusion of wigs which attracted attention, and were considered immodest or brazen in both communities.
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Unhappy with her 'immodesty', a fellow beachgoer called a cop, who arrested her for indecent exposure.
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Mine is an immodest, but by no means facetious, proposal.
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The criminal element will go after any woman (these criminals -- rapists -- hate women -- it is lust and anger combined) who looks vulnerable or like a potential victim by exhibiting a lack of confidence; naivity, carelessness and brazenness by immodest dress; vulnerability and innocence by religious garb; and by wandering around alone.
Protecting Our Daughters
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Lamenting her partner's pitiable dancing, one of the female characters pleas for a real dancer, and her call is answered by an immodest Balthasar decked out in what appears to be a flashy 1980s-style suit.
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A word murmured in a dream, an involuntary thought, an immodest glance, a gesture of impatience, a reminiscence of dissipation, an omission, a shake of the head that might reveal what you know, or what is known about you for your woes — —”
Scenes from a Courtesan's Life
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In Victorian England, the sight of an ankle was immodest.
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Juicy, tender and sinfully rich, I immodestly enjoyed every one when my companion got cold feet.
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A shy failure is nobler than an immodest success. Kahlil Gibran
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I worry more than most people about sounding immodest, but in this case, I'm not going to let that bother me, because I feel that we created a template that showed a lot of Hollywood what could be done.
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The answer must be that this is a dress not seen as ‘Western’ or immodest, and yet a dress that allows one to go to school or college, and to participate in the work force.
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There's an immodest bather, drunkards, a glutton (whose stomach does his talking for him), a fool, a woman, a monk, three choristers and a nun - all with a particular story to impart.
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Wry jokes are whispered; remarks are made about the wigs (called sheitels) that the married Orthodox women wear to avoid the ‘immodesty’ of displaying their real hair.
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Grayling does himself no favors with his foreword, here called an Epistle, which is written in such a grand, high-flown style and with such immodest ambition "its aspiration and aim the good for humanity and the good of the world" that a casual reader might even call it a sin of pride.
Michael Giltz: The Bible 2.0? A Humanist Bible Lays Down The Gauntlet
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The stories about 'amma', 'names of Indian business', 'Indian laws against immodesty', 'hindu religion and priests' were characterised in a such a way by cenk which made Indian / hindu culture look ridiculous and cruel.
The Young Turks
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the book was entitled, immodestly, `All about Wisdom'
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Most people with any sense of propriety whatsoever would think that his acceptance of this immodest pourboire for services rendered would immediately preclude him from holding the office of President of the EU Council on the basis that the conflict of interest would be plain as a pikestaff to all and sundry.
Archive 2008-01-06
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Be not immodest in urging your friends to discover a secret.
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If we’re immodest in our dress, we may cause the world to believe that their immodesty is permissible in God’s eyes, thus “approving of” their own immodesty.
SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles - Part 1027
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The leader spoke out against ‘crimes of honor,’ specifically the murder of a woman by her husband whom she had allegedly dishonored by immodest or otherwise unacceptable behavior.
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Speaking to his new hires, Hastings lets slip a rare glimpse of immodesty.
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His incredible determination and immodest personality kept him at the top of his profession.
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She reached up and allowed her dress to fall from her body immodestly to reveal a form at once that of a woman and a hideous manlike fish.
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At the French court, the Princess Catherine is learning English from her gentlewoman Alice, finding the English words ‘foot’ and ‘gown’ shockingly immodest.
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It is more likely the teacher will be expelled from the church than the immodest dresser.
Modest Feminine Dress From the Pages of 1990 Victoria Magazine
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Without wanting to sound immodest, they maintain they have arrived to stop the rot in British rock.
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The wearing of scanty dress away from the beaches is not welcomed, nor is immodest dress inside of churches.
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Except the fifth elegy, which is tainted with immodesty, the others, particularly the first, are highly beautiful, and may be placed in competition with any other productions of the elegiac kind.
The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 02: Augustus
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Here's my own immodest architectural proposal: each borough needs an architectural ouroboros.
Pavel Somov, Ph.D.: The Bilbao Effect: Architecture of Pattern Interruption?
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‘At the risk of sounding immodest, I know that any history of Tamil cinema will be incomplete without at least a few chapters on my work,’ he asserts.
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Don't worry - I don't think you need to worry about being immodest.
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In the tenth century," according to Dufour (_Histoire de la Prostitution_, vol. VI., p. 11), "shoes _a la poulaine_, with a claw or beak, pursued for more than four centuries by the anathemas of popes and the invectives of preachers, were always regarded by mediæval casuists as the most abominable emblems of immodesty.
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 5 Erotic Symbolism; The Mechanism of Detumescence; The Psychic State in Pregnancy
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brash immodest boasting
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We should be worrying about middle age women these days as much as girls, because the immodesty is starting with the older women.
Protecting Our Daughters
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In order to prevent I spend over 100 dollars reason of handsome head immodesty drive fire point.
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Unlike Iain Dale who claims an EXCLUSIVE but says nothing and pussyfoots around alleged names he allegedly knows I can reveal that the BBC has been injuncted from revealling that every member of the Bullingdon Boys Class of 1987 has been promised, by big D, a modest K or an immodest P - at some stage - for maintaining their generous contributions to the old alma mater.
Archive 2007-02-25
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Magisterial in its learning and admirably immodest in its ambition, the book traces the history of political organization and principle from "prehuman times" up to the period of the French Revolution.
From Dynasty to Democracy
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Or, as Liggett naughtily notes, a rider is "dancing on the pedals in a most immodest way.
Hoops fans get a bigger sampling of 3-D
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There's an immodest bather, drunkards, a glutton (whose stomach does his talking for him), a fool, a woman, a monk, three choristers and a nun - all with a particular story to impart.
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Those same homemade tortellini reappear in a thick cream sauce, modestly portioned but immodestly rich.
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I think it's not being immodest to say that when we started the Institute for Justice in 1991, the term economic liberty was confined pretty much to libertarian academics," Mr. Mellor grins.
Litigating for Liberty
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Her act describes her rejection by strings of men for being too talkative and immodest, for her unwillingness to commit to caring for a potential husband's ailing mother, and, worst of all, for being a comedian.
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The result of his immodesty has been a persistent hunger for offices that most people thought beyond his abilities.
PrairiePundit
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Li Faa, from the Chinese angle, was a new woman, a feminist, who rode horseback astride, disported immodestly garbed at Waikiki on the surf-boards, and at more than one luau (feast) had been known to dance the hula with the worst and in excess of the worst, to the scandalous delight of all.
THE TEARS OF AH KIM
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It seemed like an immodest thing to admit, but I thought, ‘Maybe he's right.’
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The reason for the present event, according to their explanation, is immodest behavior.
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It was accounted an immodest thing for women to dishevel and unloose their hair publicly: The priest unlooseth the hairs of the women suspected of adultery, when she was to be tried by the bitter water, which was done for greater disgrace.
From the Talmud and Hebraica
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I know that immodesty is a militant movement, because people like the author, ministers and even yourself, have been attacked for teaching against it.
Hawaiian Dresses
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I know there are many who will disagree, who will say these bare-bellied women are shameless and immodest, but I cannot agree.
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I wrote briefly about her execution and my editor sent it back asking for more, but - though it sounds immodest - I think I've got that moment perfectly.
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Let there be everywhere heard the rustling of dancers, the loud, immodest laughter of the theatre; let a succession of the most cruel and the most voluptuous pleasures maintain a perpetual excitement.
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Mine is an immodest, but by no means facetious, proposal.
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Juicy, tender and sinfully rich, I immodestly enjoyed every one when my companion got cold feet.
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Without being immodest, I have not played a single show where I didn't get close to a standing ovation.
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Maybe the immodesty is proof that global warming exists.
Alfred Augustus Glendening 1861-1903
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These immodest dressers have a militance about them and when you make objection to their public nudity, they screech and cast dust in the air, vilify you and your personality and you are likely to get the cold treatment, so much, that you eventually leave, which is what they want.
The Beautiful, Soft, Flowing, Modest, Clothing Depicted in the Art of Alfred Emile Leopold Stevens (1823-1906)
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(Applause) Without boasting, without any kind of immodesty, that is how we Cuban revolutionaries understand our internationalist duty.
TRICONTINENTAL CONFERENCE
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Without sounding immodest, I have no trouble meeting men because I am quite regularly described as ‘a real looker’ and ‘easy on the eyes.’
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My speech was scheduled immediately after the fab and very sexy Immodesty Blaize - a brilliant burlesque striptease artiste and extremely hard act to follow.
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This is a particularly noticeable thing about baboons, or perhaps it is what humans cannot avoid noticing - being so well trained to look down upon such immodest displays.
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The leader spoke out against ‘crimes of honor,’ specifically the murder of a woman by her husband whom she had allegedly dishonored by immodest or otherwise unacceptable behavior.
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Most people with any sense of propriety whatsoever would think that his acceptance of this immodest pourboire for services rendered would immediately preclude him from holding the office of President of the EU Council on the basis that the conflict of interest would be plain as a pikestaff to all and sundry.
Blair's Thirty Pieces Of Silver?
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The hostesses who pour drinks in Japan's sleek gentlemen's clubs were once shunned because their duties were considered immodest: lavishing adoring (albeit nonsexual) attention on men for a hefty fee.
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If you know anything at all about the tastes of the tsars - think of the Fabergé eggs and you're there - you will understand already how spectacularly immodest the factory's output was.
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And she is all the more real because it is France, impure, the country of light loves and immodest passions, where all that is sensual comes to the surface, and the courtesan is the queen of ignoble fancy, that has brought forth this most perfect embodiment of purity among the nations.
Jeanne d'Arc
