Sentences with phrase «with false modesty»

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There's no false modesty about it — Fabrice Penot wanted to start a revolution with Le Labo, the fragrance company he co-founded in 2006.

Filled with what John Milbank arrestingly and accurately calls «false modesty,» otherwise orthodox theologians adjust to the prevailing secular reason.

At a time of unprecedented transition in the Christian Movement, when (as George Orwell once put it) «the little orthodoxies of the right and the left vie with one another for possession of our souls,» it is necessary to assert both the modesty and the complex, nuanced character of Christian faith and theology against the false certainties of true belief, ideology and religious simplism.

And he never wasted time with self - deprecation or false modesty.

As Teachout puts it, with a hint of false modesty, «They're spending $ 3.3 million against little ol' me.»

In a manner free of any taboos or false modesty, she deals with the most unpleasant aspects of racism and violence in American history.

The issue is that Judith Curry, in unveiling her new intellectual tool with great fanfare and off - key notes of false modesty, conflates confidence in a hypothesis with weighting.