Sentences with word «effacing»

While soft - spoken and self - effacing in person, Willett isn't shy about using this formidable database to take on the federal establishment.

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.

That does not efface what I have written just because I am not adding anything to it.

To call Xhaka merely «underwhelming», is like saying Trump is not as self effacing as he should be.

This might sound a little odd, but some people are so reserved and self effacing at interviews, that panel remembers literally have to ask who the applicants were.

Her new covers for Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn restore some of the book's messy truth, usually effaced by soft - focus glamour

This self - effacing artist seems to conceive of himself almost as an anonymous agent: whatever is expressed in his prints comes from beyond him and is simply transmitted through him.

I've not even effaced at all.

Cullman, following Luther, would have us select from this rich array only the single image of sleep, a tidy way to dispose of the doctrine of purgatory and to downplay if not completely efface the cult of the saints.

Because he was bottom first, it was very important to be fully effaced so we didn't risk head entrapment.

She advised me that it sounded like I was still in early labor and that the downward pressure I was feeling was likely my cervix effacing.

He is an entertaining, engaging host, with a charmingly self - effacing attitude about him.

Further, the commitment to translational dynamism often involves the use of different English words for the same original word, which effaces many intratextual connections and thus obscures much theologically freighted literary brilliance.

The silent effacing from the nation's historical consciousness of the way England was typically seen as being the oppressor and tyrant in Scotland, Ireland, Wales and the rest of the world is almost Orwellian.

His self - effacing good nature and obvious enjoyment of Yin yoga make him a great teacher.

It's also frequently hilarious, mining humour in slapstick, true, but also in the sort of self - effacing comedy with which Carell is most conversant.

To describe a work as an autobiography merely because of the first - person pronoun effaces what distinguishes autobiography: the belief in the existence of a stable self and the meaningfulness of human action.

In his self - effacing way he became a remarkably successful missionary to the thoroughly secular University of Michigan.

Does even her blackness arise, then, from effacing color — or its accumulation?

It marks the return to the original situation, namely, that the Gospel is not a new Scripture to be commented on but is effaced before something else because it speaks of someone who is the true word of God.

Smith's self - effacing story of why he had altered his career plans — he graduated from Yale in 1969 with a bachelor's degree in American studies and became a lawyer before entering politics — was clearly meant to disarm his audience.

It showed real inexperience and bad judgement to leave a woman who was fully effaced and 4 cm with a buldging bag alone without staying longer to determine cervical change.If this woman had gone to the hospital, they would not have sent her home.

Highly successful executives don't boast about their accomplishments and are even self - effacing when discussing success.

He's self - effacing enough to steer clear of personal admissions.

But this version of the story greatly oversimplifies the situation, effacing painting that earned a place among the most experimental work of the moment, very much in sympathy with the era's radical aesthetics and politics.

The sorry spectacle of the ranting codger never effaces the image of the boy concentrating his entire being over a chessboard.

While women do find this attractive, it would seem at least at first, being a little more self - effacing works well.

Philip Fisher, Making and Effacing Art: Modern American Art in a Culture of Museums (New York: Oxford University Press, 1991), 98 — 99.

Before long he was covering the panel and effacing individual strokes — but hardly hiding them.

In the introduction, they describe the book as a «forthright and at times self - effacing account of our early days at the centre of a fast - growing, wildly influential New York start - up.»

Brian's been great lately at building the farm system, but there are areas where his judgment is questionable (although one can never be confident in assigning culpability in a front office where the owners seem to rely on self - effacing loyalty from employees; i.e., fall on your sword if you want to work here, and you didn't hear it from us).

Your cervix starts out being two inches long, and fifty percent effaced would be a one - inch thick cervix.

The thick white spots on pitch black look like star maps, but the black effaces earlier fields of intense color.

Throughout the series, Richter progressively effaces the photographic image with paint, to the point of almost total obscurity.

In his inimitably self - effacing yet still detached style, Reeves recalled his adolescent jobs — which included paper routes, landscaping work, sharpening skates at a hockey rink and «an underground Italian specialty food store,» where he enjoyed a five - or six - month rise from «sandwich creator» to manager.

Rowan Wilson, a low - key and self - effacing corporate lawyer specializing in antitrust and intellectual property, as well as civil rights law, appeared at a friendly hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee.

The situation needs attention before the self - effacing comments of the Sydney vice-chancellors become accepted international wisdom.

Clint Eastwood wisely chose a strong, simple thriller for his first film as a director, and the project is remarkable in its self - effacing dedication to getting the craft right.

One bright spot in «Peter Rabbit» comes courtesy of [Domhnall] Gleeson, who... is becoming a young master of self - effacing comic villainy.

Gere presides over it all with an impressively self - effacing portrait of a man who, while you wouldn't want to experience him in real life, remains fascinating onscreen from beginning to end.

The exhibition features an immersive installation comprising of archival research, textile, sculpture, and performance conceived by the artist to recover the queer aesthetics, politics, and bodies often effaced within histories of sports and recreation.

But co-directors Glenn Ficarra and John Requa aren't making the broadly comic version of this story; Fey and Carlock's self - effacing wit functions more as window - dressing, arranged with restraint.

Commenting on Jianyi's career, Hong Kong curator and gallerist Johnson Tsong - zung Chang said: «Geng Jianyi's self - effacing practices belie his uniqueness within the art world of our time.