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

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The characters, including an engineer at a troubled computer-hardware firm, live in an Americanized work environment, yet certain emotions nearly lost to Americans, such as modesty and shame, still rule their lives.

NEWYORKER: Yi Yi (A One and a Two)

Mr Mandell thinks the modesty of such purchases makes his business recession-proof.

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However, coming from Sir Samuel Brittan, peerless economic and political commentator long in residence at the Financial Times, the idea that a collection like this requires some such justification verges on false modesty.

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Those who did not have the modesty to be struck by such doubts tended to comport themselves as the collector now did: to ask for adjustments and improvements, to tell the limner that his hand and eye were faulty.

NEWYORKER: The Limner

His raucous fake persona stands in such sharp contrast to the actual Colbert, whose sincerity and modesty claw their way to the surface every now and again.

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