While soft - spoken and self - effacing in person, Willett isn't shy about using this formidable database to take on the federal establishment. (discovermagazine.com)
For this role, he loses the self - effacing humor of the charming tongue - in - cheek cockiness he brought to Romancing the Stone for the droll comedy of desperation in an once - celebrated businessman and happy husband and father who tossed in the towel of responsibility and commitment for a life of immediate gratification and paid the price: divorce, distrust and financial ruin. (seanax.com)
That does not efface what I have written just because I am not adding anything to it. (religion-online.org)