Word: modeste
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...back to campus, Burruss opens up about her past as a designer. “My grandma sewed a lot and my mom sewed her own maternity wardrobe. She is the one who taught me how to work the sewing machine,” she says. Burruss is modest about her own status as a designer, saying that she designs and constructs clothes simply out of a love for constructing. She does make occasional sketches, but most of her ideas are stored right in her own mind. “I’m not too good...
...Worst hit Monday was Tokyo's Nikkei index, whose 6.4% slide to 7,162.9 points marked its lowest level since 1982. Hong Kong's Hang Seng was down 12.7%, its biggest single-session drop in 17 years. Other Asian indices suffered more modest declines, but all were down besides South Korea's Kospi, which was up a modest 0.8% due mostly to an interest rate...
...land of the living. She is intelligent, but she has the good sense not to boldly assert it. She just goes swimming and shopping with her sister, in effect showing her the simple pleasures of the quotidian - of not succumbing to self-pity, of taking responsibility for modest, restorative actions. She is very well and unsentimentally played by Zylberstein...
...performance is about small, believable, human gestures which sometimes fail, sometimes succeed, but eventually restore Juliette to something like life. A modest victory that is not presented triumphantly. I have heard this criticism advanced about the movie: that Claudel holds back from the audience the crucial information that Juliette's crime was morally defensible, which implies that calumny she suffers for it is indefensible, or at least too crudely judged. I think otherwise. This is not a movie about setting an injustice to rights. It is more profoundly about Juliette coming to grips with herself, freeing herself from...
There certainly have to be easier ways to score a VIP ticket to a political rally. Standing in the modest crowd of a few hundred who showed up downtown to hear Joe Biden on Friday morning was a shy, freckle-faced young woman wearing a white coat against the chill. She had received an invitation from the campaign the night before to be here. That's because Chaylee Cole, an 18-year-old student at Fairmont State University, has become a celebrity of sorts. Last week, she was fired from her part-time job as a telemarketer when she refused...