Word: modeste
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...generously. To allow this radical intrusion in a quiet life seems the emblem of English accommodation. But, Bennett insists, "allow isn't quite the word. I was just faced with her-it was like Eleanor Roosevelt moving in! I just got used to it. I know this sounds odiously modest, but I don't think it needed much goodness. It's more laziness. Just as you can do harm by being lazy, you can do some good as well...
...Larkin was asked if he'd like to go to Australia, he said, 'I wouldn't mind, if I could come back the same afternoon!'" For George III or the Lady in the Van or Alan Bennett, there's no place like home. It's where one has a modest function...
...work has its critics. Some challenge her results directly. University of Pennsylvania professor Frank Furstenburg Jr. claims that "the overall effect of divorce is modest to moderate." Others, noting Wallerstein's lack of a control group, wonder whether her subjects are any more miserable than the kids from troubled but continuing marriages she didn't track. A lengthy University of Virginia study recently found that children of divorce were better off than those of highly dysfunctional marriages, and family historian Stephanie Coontz is worried that Wallerstein's "scare tactics" may cause mismatched mates to "stick it out for the kids...
Thiessen is modest about his many accomplishments. He says that he has to work hard in his classes...
...senior, or hire someone out of the "Adult Services" section of the Phoenix (he's paid for this kind of thing). If you go with my first suggestion, ask the cutest junior in your house (good luck!). They're old enough to be cool, but young enough to be modest. If you try the Phoenix, here's a tip: the higher the price, the better the quality. (And if you're REALLY in a pickle, my twin brother Norman is always available...call the Crime and I'll give you the number...