Word: modeste
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...This is my modest way of fighting extremism: through culture, through literature, through love, and through faith,” he said...
...peach-colored house in a modest subdivision near downtown Modesto, Calif., used to be someone's dream home. But it stands out in a row of similarly hued homes where many have a "For Sale" sign planted in their front yards. The two-story appears battered: its address has been scratched on a front panel and weeds choke what may once have been a manicured lawn. And then there is the overwhelming stench of human waste and stale beer. There has been no electricity and no running water since the bank repossessed it months ago. Still, at least three young...
...Marginalia,” describing the selfsame phenomenon: “One scrawls ‘Metaphor’ next to a stanza of Eliot’s. / Another notes the presence of ‘Irony’ / Fifty times outside the paragraphs of A Modest Proposal...
...Rather than treating book margins as the receptacles of their unthinking drivel, note-takers should embrace the chastising influence of an absent reader. Those with substantial egos can imagine that reader as a future biographer, while the modest can simply picture a judgmental type like myself, who will publish your stupidities in the student newspaper for all to read...
...like it has some kind of solution to rising oil prices. But ethanol represents, on a broader level, the tendency to rush into high profile, fix-all “solutions” before we have fully analyzed the interdependency of all the elements involved. Instead of pursuing those modest, non-fanciful solutions that we have reason to believe might work (like forest management to increase carbon uptake and a carbon tax), we’ve seen millions of dollars plunged into a wasteful scheme that shuttles money directly from taxpayer to corn farmer, nastily hiking world food prices...