How To Use Self-effacing In A Sentence
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He seems a genuinely good person, humble and self-effacing, and he's a talented actor and filmmaker.
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‘This is a rhetorician's little joke, Wittenberg comments, ‘based in the self-effacing irony of paralipsis’.
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He may no longer rely on his haircuts to do the talking but he is still shy and self-effacing.
Times, Sunday Times
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He was a brilliant attorney with a self-effacing kindness and affability unlike any I have ever seen.
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the great man was embarrassingly humble and self-effacing
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It wasn't in her nature to be coy or self-effacing; she couldn't bring herself to make a polite demurral or plead incompetence where she had none.
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He is so modest and self-effacing which also makes him popular with his peers.
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For the unpretentious, self-effacing actor he was, Joel McCrea had a remarkably varied career.
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He was a humble, self-effacing man, not given to self-aggrandisement of any sort.
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Physically attractive and possessed of considerable personal charm, his demeanour was self-effacing, gracious and polite.
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He was the most self-effacing of men - the last thing he would have relished was a eulogy.
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He remains modest and self-effacing, thank goodness, but now we know there is a core of steel within the good-natured exterior.
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On the set, Sanders was the perfect self-effacing host, happy to play straightman to his guests or to enliven a dull show with pertinent ad-libs and stupid sketches.
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Both have demonstrated an appealing shyness, a self-effacing modesty, and a stated preference for getting on with the work.
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The story, created by cherry-picking a few outrageous lines from the Jeopardy! champion's generally modest and self-effacing blog, was a simple one: ingrateful winner slams, bashes, blasts, jabs, bites, and even backstabs the show.
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While the film's form is remarkably self-effacing, its content and visual style resemble the best of Hollywood westerns.
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Modest, well-mannered and self-effacing, he is someone everybody likes because he works hard at earning their trust and affection.
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What he does not seem to be is the self-effacing steward, in a long line of self-effacing stewards, of the world's greatest newspaper.
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Self-effacing men are also more likely to get a reply to their approaches, while nothing puts potential dates off more than textspeak like "ur" and "luv".
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There are countless winks to the audience as a parade of stars appears in self-effacing cameos.
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The captain was typically self-effacing when questioned about the team's successes, giving credit to the other players.
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He was a quiet and self-effacing person who took joy in the success of others.
Christianity Today
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‘I'm an entertainer,’ he says, self-effacingly in a low mutter.
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She is too modest and too self-effacing to tell the whole story, but she will, I hope, some day.
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There are countless winks to the audience as a parade of stars appears in self-effacing cameos.
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It was a record David would acknowledge in boyish, self-effacing fashion; sometimes proffering a calling card that identified him as a former chief storekeeper and a retired SEAL with the nickname
David David
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In spite of her success, she remains self-effacing and reserved.
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God's glory and beauty are revealed in poor, humble, hurting and self-effacing lives of faith and compassion.
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But regarding 2 this teacher was not especially charismatic - in fact more self-effacing than naturally the centre of attention.
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This book is a triumph of self-effacing scholarship.
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The score and the lyrics have something of Sondheim's sophisticated, sceptical humour, and the three actor-singers handle them with agile, self-effacing, sometimes self-mocking skill.
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He was a slight, gentle, self-effacing man, very bright, a little absent-minded, with a lovely sense of humour.
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He was typically self-effacing, showing us his party trick of being loud and brash and modest at the same time.
Times, Sunday Times
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Tall, bespectacled, fleshy, although in reasonably good shape, he has the self-effacing air of an old-fashioned university don.
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Here as in the first movement, the players' modesty is almost self-effacing.
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Any student of Washington's life might have predicted that he would acknowledge his election in a short, self-effacing speech full of disclaimers.
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That was a typically self-effacing smokescreen.
Times, Sunday Times
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He once turned down the chance of becoming a candidate for parliament: he was much too self-effacing, and self-doubting, to do that.
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essentially humble...and self-effacing, he achieved the highest formal honors and distinctions
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They're painful and playful at once, a hard trick to pull off without coming off as cutely self-effacing.
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He's modest about his achievements, self-effacing about his music and finds an old-fashioned dignity in hard work.
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As women we tend to be self-effacing and make light of what we have achieved.
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From the Palestinian comedienne with cerebral palsy to the Arab American with a New Jersey accent, the Muslim comics in the film offer positive images of these ethnic cultures with self-effacing wit.
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If you ask him about it, he instinctively strokes his chin and laughs in a typically self-effacing and slightly embarrassed way.
Times, Sunday Times
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Diffident, brusque and self-effacing to the point of invisibility, he was not the first person you would choose if you wanted to mount a charm offensive.
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Diamond has a gentle, self-effacing style about him without seeming obsequious.
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I don't tell you all this just to be humble or self-effacing.
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He was a shy, self-effacing man.
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He is modest and self-effacing - not someone seeking his fifteen minutes of fame.
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He was the most self-effacing of men - the last thing he would have relished was a eulogy.
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meek and self-effacing
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He's modest about his achievements, self-effacing about his music and finds an old-fashioned dignity in hard work.
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Photography's variety and self-effacing ubiquity have also made it an elusive historical entity, defying traditional interpretative or narrative structures.
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Lily is a rather private person and has been described as self-effacing.
HerScopes
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A shy, self-effacing man, Williams was self-taught, and showed an independent and determined intellectual curiosity.
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Using the self-effacing formal devices associated with conceptualism and minimalism, Piper interrogates the subjective effacement of the racial stereotype.
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The ideals of the steel will and the will to power are mollified by the self-effacing faith that we're basically decent.
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Daniel Rowland was a self-effacing man, who only once consented to sit for his portrait.
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Critics come in vastly varying styles: from subtle, self-effacing, and sardonic, to oracular, vatic, apocalyptic, to plain damned intelligent.
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A shy, self-effacing man, Williams was self-taught, and showed an independent and determined intellectual curiosity.
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And after the applicants sing arias in the vocal style of a soloist, they are asked to sight-read the selection with a more self-effacing choral tone.
The Master of Many Choruses
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He is scruffy, self-effacing and funny and conjures up all of these attributes in his perennially popular excursions to far-flung corners of the globe.
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Jack faced this minor crisis with typical self-effacing humor.
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But regarding 2 this teacher was not especially charismatic - in fact more self-effacing than naturally the centre of attention.
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To do so, she explores the idea of metaphoricity, transforming conceits into self-reflexive, self-questioning, and ultimately self-effacing representation.
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We did not know about that," Kriemler says, in characteristically self-effacing fashion.
The Discreet Charm of Akris
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He's a very able person, but at the same time incredibly modest and self-effacing.
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Though self-effacing "It isn't my personality to be particularly proud of what I do" the composer seems to recognize his legacy as arguably the only living film composer with both classical credentials and name recognition among everyday moviegoers.
The Last Movie Maestro
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Shy and self-effacing, he was not a natural celebrity.
Times, Sunday Times
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Childless and twice married, the chairwoman of the Christian Democratic Union often comes off as reserved and self-effacing.
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A meek, self-effacing figure, he grows more haggard and needy as his hopes of business success and personal harmony crumble.
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He went on with self-effacing charm to list such adversities as the time it takes to enter a text message.
Times, Sunday Times
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This rabbi is too self-effacing and that one— good God!
The Search
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Charlie is the self-effacing, Milquetoast dude who allows people to walk all over him.
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On the set, Sanders was the perfect self-effacing host, happy to play straightman to his guests or to enliven a dull show with pertinent ad-libs and stupid sketches.
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‘Self-effacing’ is a not a term that many would apply to Menzies, but his reminiscences could be described as such.
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In fact he was very quiet and self-effacing.
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Perhaps we need a trade union of the self-effacing, an Oscar for tentativeness and diffidence.
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He was self-effacing, he didn't big-note himself, but he was a gifted musician and was quite good with people.
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Whatever the reason, I'll be wishing him well because, in our adversarial, interrogative culture, there's still a place for Parkinson's gentlemanly, self-effacing approach.
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He is self-deprecating and self-effacing and has used humor to deflect criticism about his inadequacy and deficiency.
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This last comment is typical of the band's self-effacing and humble attitude to everything that's happened to them.
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She's clearly an intelligent woman, quick-witted and self-effacing, so doesn't she worry that her job is essentially stupid?
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We suggest that self-effacing humor is founded on the premise of aggression.
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Then there is the shy, self-effacing Chris, who electrifyingly takes over the stage, and, to my mind, sparks the whole proceedings with the showstopper, Old Fashioned Romance.
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In fact, publicising any aspect of her success is not something that comes naturally to this rather self-effacing woman.
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He also is self-effacing and secure enough to acknowledge that if his name were Smith or Jones, no one in China would be interested.
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You know, neither my wife nor I are into self-deprecation or make any lame attempts to be self-effacing.
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Weingart stared straight ahead, his expression self-effacing, his hands resting on the spokes of his steering wheel.
The Glass Rainbow
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He is quiet, self-effacing and wry.
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