This isn't false modesty.
Not exact matches
• Jesus is
not the victim of
false modesty when he commands the people to be silent over the miracles he has wrought (Mk 7, 36).
I do
not take this confession as mere or
false modesty.
Not because of any
false modesty in the fat department, just because that's what the recipes asked of me.
Pretending that he doesn't know himself to be an icon in American music (and, arguably, even of American letters) is the worst kind of arrogance: the sin of
false modesty, which Dylan doesn't wear particularly well and is frightfully unbecoming besides.
In this case, what Sully tells the Safety commission is
not just
false modesty.
The typical value investor says — he is full of
false modesty — he says «I don't know nothing about macroeconomics; it doesn't interest me.