Word: immodest
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...audience enjoyed Galbraith's lecture,breaking into frequent spontaneous applause andlaughing at his famously immodest remarks...
...under, who could "assume leadership roles in the right circumstances -- and given the right spirit of the country." Five years later, TIME chose a new portfolio of "faces for the future" -- 50 more people in the same age category whom the editors identified as emerging leaders. Without seeming immodest, we may observe that we accurately predicted great futures for many of the individuals on our lists. We made some missteps, of course -- Marion Barry comes to mind -- and we did fail to notice some of those who were in their pupal leadership stage -- Newt Gingrich, say -- but the fact remains...
Some rich candidates, mindful of appearing immodest or undemocratic, claim to be using their personal funds mostly as a start-up or back-up resource. Castro, Fisher and several other primary victors say they will finance the later stages of their campaigns through fund-raising efforts. Colorado's Benson claims to be using his own funds largely as seed money: "I've got to have $100,000 of my own," he says, "before I can ask people...
Frederico Fellini has said in several interviews that he considered each of his stories, that is, each of his movies, a period of his life. Identifying so completely with his art, he considered any criticism of his work to be unsuitable and immodest, because he felt judged as a person. Essentially, he was not fond of film criticism. But, in doing what a film critic must do, I must say that Fellini films are not for everyone. Fellini's style is highly original and daring, but often bizarre, and he does a masterful job of making his audience uncomfortable, making...
...movie simply needed my clout to get it made," Spielberg says, and he is not being immodest. Since no filmmaker has a track record like his, none has his power to encourage both a studio and the young mass audience to take a risk on a movie the subject of which is inherently repellent, not to say terrifying...