Those thoughts seemed marked by deep moral seriousness and no moral modesty.

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But McCain showed no such modesty during last night's debate.

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No slyness, no false generosity, sentimentality or modesty, no affecting a pose (or position) for ulterior advantage and no shrinking from a full commitment to his beliefs.

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In this instance, modesty requires no more than that the justices follow the technicalities of the law.

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That may be a by-product of his straight-talking nature and his supreme confidence, which mean he sees no need to pull punches or partake in false modesty.

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In addition, the scans will have a "modesty filter" to blur out faces, and no images will be saved.

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"We have no use for it, " he said, trying to exude modesty.

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Major League Baseball must come to terms with the fact that viewership for World Series games will no longer approach a 30.0 rating and must readjust their expectations to reflect modesty and the current consumption patterns of consumers.

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Compelling attention wherever he went by turning out the likenesses people requested had seemingly no effect on the impersonal element at the core of his strength, the inborn modesty that was his toughness and that he later sidestepped at his peril.

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