Sentences with phrase «effaced by»

Both being shy and self - effacing by nature and because the quality of his art to resist any precise classification affected the fact that he wasn't widely known as he should be for creating such a unique style and art.

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By its reserved standards — Winnebago is self - effacing in just the way you might expect a small - town Iowa company to be (and I say that as a native of Cedar Rapids)-- the company lit up the joint.

Although she never reveals her real name (effaced now under the patronymic «Offred»), the Handmaid begins her tale in the old high school gymnasium by recalling youthful «expectation, of something without a shape or name» (p. 3), preserving, like Israel in exile, the time of hope, and returning in memory to the sources of existence as the only way forward.

«Only by praying together with their children can a father and mother — exercising their royal priesthood — penetrate the innermost depths of their children's hearts and leave an impression that the future events in their lives will not be able to efface.»

It's precisely because the class system has been so thoroughly effaced that sorting by education has become so so socially important.

His daily self «effacing duties would have given him a sense of routine as he sat at his table, and he found he could supply his troupe best by complicating his work and giving it multiple layers of appeal.

Then someone objects, and says that the Greek is just a translation of the Lord's Aramaic, so that we, by guesswork, can efface the Greek and replace it with a supposititious original.

It would have been humble, funny, and self - effacing, the kind of speech given by someone who was completely content with how everything turned out.

The man who consoled El Guerrouj by cell phone when he fell in Atlanta turned to the president of the Moroccan athletic federation — a former bodyguard who once took a bullet for the king — and said, «El Guerrouj a efface Morceli.»

Effacement could be accompanied by mild contractions, or none at all, so you might not know you're effaced without the help of an OB - GYN and / or midwife.

, and given an internal exam by the attending physician who roundly declared I was only 2 cm dialated, 90 % effaced.

Very witty and self effacing speech by Jeremy Corbyn to the media at Labour drinks.

But the decision by the self - effacing former physics professor to retire from Congress doesn't mean he's giving up his lifelong passion for science education.

In a self - effacing attempt to save his father from a death by deterioration, a young man enlists his curmudgeonly boss and Kelis to perform a song, and a miracle.

Flanked by his hapless sidekick (a hilariously thick Jeffrey Tambor) and a raging producer (Rip Torn), Larry interacts with celebrities on and off the stage in ways that push Shandling's self - effacing comedy into the realms of seminal squirm humor.

More importantly, his overacted and self - effacing performance suggests an understanding that his films are now viewed largely through a lens of irony, by audiences who find unintended humor in films like Timecop and Double Impact.

Into Great Silence (Die Grosze Stille) DVD Review by Kam Williams Headline: DVD Offers Rare Peak at Monastic Life Who would ever think that you could make a movie about an order of self - effacing monks who «ve taken not only a vow of celibacy, but also of silence?

The surprise of Rabbit Hole is that it is directed, with self - effacing sensitivity, by John Cameron Mitchell, whose previous films, Hedwig and the Angry Inch and the full - frontal Short Bus, come from another planet entirely.

It's also a movie in which a top - grade bunch of actors get stuck in with self - effacing pragmatism, not getting overpowered by the story but not trying to outshine it either.

Within the space of a couple of sequences — in which the team barely adjust to their life - altering new afflictions before agreeing to be co-opted by the military - industrial complex — the movie abruptly changes tone and rhythm, as though Marvel's directorial software had assumed control, right down to effacing Philip Glass's fleeting soundtrack compositions in favor of Marco Beltrami's standard droning hackery.

Called «Tonni» by her boss, she's mousy, self - effacing and infinitely forbearing.

Ellen, by comparison, is a soft - spoken, self - effacing dynamo who resurrected a once - promising organization and turned it into a lifesaving machine.

We understand this destructive quality as we understand the late pastels of Degas, in which Degas sought to efface the beauty of his own line by making the contours scribbled and broken.

This, they seem to say is blackness in America, and it can never escape being effaced and ignored by something or someone white.

«DMV Dirt,» opening this week at Long View Gallery, may have a self - effacing title, but visitors are sure to be impressed by the emotional depth of the work.

Two paintings in a uniform dark brown hang over the front desk, by Park McArthur, like guides to the museum with their text effaced.

The juxtaposition of paintings from Shchukin's collection with selected works by the pre-Revolutionary Russian avant - garde will serve to highlight the remarkable role this self - effacing and quite austere man played in the modern movement by promoting the work of some of its greatest exponents.

Article by Alison Hugill, Photos by Jeff Weber in Berlin / / Sep. 29, 2016 Self - effacing artists are hard to find these days.

Preoccupied by collective memory and how history gradually effaces anonymous individuals, in this new body of work Avotins communicates subtly through the gaping absence of the human figure.

Faithfully reproducing the original edition, this book contains a text by the artist that offers the reader a typically honest and self - effacing account of Moriyama's thoughts about his practice.

They're not artists, they don't have a gallery representing their work, and they are self - effacing enough to be both bemused and amused by their selection.

Brown is again self - effacing in discussing the press's cadre of artists, stating in an interview earlier this year, «it seems like artists have selected us more than we selected them... it's kind of a snowball thing» — but choices were nonetheless made, undoubtedly fueled by Brown's broad intellectual interests.

«Preoccupied by collective memory and how history gradually effaces anonymous individuals, in this new body of work Avotiņš communicates subtly through the gaping absence of the human figure.»

As further defined by the Urban Dictionary, the Humblebrag is a way of «subtly letting others now about how fantastic your life is while undercutting it with a bit of self - effacing humor or «woe is me» gloss.»

The only form of promotion was the brass plate by which we could announce the name of our firms in self - effacing terms on the outside of our offices.

63 Immediately on the receipt of a poll return envelope, without effacing or covering any seals already affixed to it, the returning officer shall affix a seal prescribed by the Chief Electoral Officer in such a way that the envelope can not be opened without the seal being broken and shall take every precaution for its safekeeping and for preventing any person other than himself or herself and the election clerk from having access to it.

Yet if the recognition of native title is to be ascertained by reference to Indigenous laws and culture then direct analogy to common law titles may efface the Indigenous character of the interest almost entirely.