Sentences with phrase «effacing as»

Work on explaining your background and qualifications in a way that is accurate, but a bit self - effacing as well.

He stole the show with an acceptance speech that was both swaggering and self - effacing as he ran through a long list of those he wanted to thank, including Herman Hesse, Steve Jobs and Wayne Gretzky.

This would be a merely reductive gesture if it were categorical; but Kraus's light installations aspire to sublimity as much as they efface themselves as decor.

Not exact matches

(As the second half of that sentence may indicate, this work is, in fact, rarely self - effacing).

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.

They came off as «self - effacing, quiet, reserved, even shy.»

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.

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.

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 long for a society in which modernity would have its full place but without implying the denial of elementary principles of human and familial ecology; for a society in which the diversity of ways of being, of living, and of desiring is accepted as fortunate, without allowing this diversity to be diluted in the reduction to the lowest common denominator, which effaces all differentiation; for a society in which, despite the technological deployment of virtual realities and the free play of critical intelligence, the simplest words — father, mother, spouse, parents — retain their meaning, at once symbolic and embodied; for a society in which children are welcomed and find their place, their whole place, without becoming objects that must be possessed at all costs, or pawns in a power struggle.

He was self effacing, he had a great sense of humour as well, so he had great balance.

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.

Jürgen Moltmann has pointed out that one amazing ramification of Christianity's peculiar doctrine of the Trinity is the way it transcends the patriarchalism implicit in Jewish monotheism as well as the matriarchalism implicit in pagan pantheism.49 Using sexual terms in a metasexual rather than a literal, genital, and bodily sense, the feminine dimension of personality refers to the receptive, passive, self - effacing, care - receiving capacity in us all that contrasts with the initiating, aggressive, self - assertive, self - sufficient traits we associate with the masculine dimension.

@mk: No, I call him «Holy,» because he walks the streets of New York BAREFOOT, and because he has enormous humility, as you have seen here in his self - effacing apology.

I long for a society in which modernity would have its full place, without implying the denial of elementary principles of human and familial ecology; for a society in which the diversity of ways of being, of living and of desiring is accepted as fortunate, without allowing this diversity to be diluted in the reduction to the lowest common denominator, which effaces all differentiation; for a society in which, despite the technological deployment of virtual realities and the free play of critical intelligence, the simplest words» father, mother, spouse, parents» retain their meaning, at once symbolic and embodied; for a society in which children are welcomed and find their place, their whole place, without becoming objects that must be possessed at all costs or a pawns in a power struggle.

Would it not make sense above all to ask questions from the point of view of adopted children as well as questions concerning the concrete consequences in their daily lives of the effacing of sexual differences?

Effacer, after all, survives in English as efface, used almost exclusively as the back end of the hyphenate self - effacing, which accurately describes El Guerrouj.

«Gettin» old,» Sampras shouts to a visitor as he clips theAce bandage that holds the ice in place, a self - effacing proclamation that hedelivers with a deep laugh.

It was just last year that AC Milan coach Gennaro Gattuso produced possibly the most self - effacing quote in the history of quotes when he was asked if Andrea Pirlo would have been as great a player without Gattuso alongside him.

Before augmenting your labor, your practitioner will carefully assess your contraction pattern and examine you to find out how much your cervix has effaced (thinned out) and dilated, as well as how far your baby has descended.

As you near your due date, your cervix becomes thinner and softer (called effacing).

The bad news for Labour is that none of those in the running to succeed her is anywhere near as impressive as Kezia Dugdale, a self - effacing, clever woman who has had enough of the grief that comes with leading a party still fighting for its survival in Scotland.

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 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.

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

Obsequious and self - effacing to superiors («I have so many papers I'm working on»), SciZ is rude, verbally abusive, and calculating with subordinates (including sanitation and support staff, as well as postdocs like me).

I personally know women who were not dilated and effaced at all and delivered less than 24 hours later, as well as women who walked around at 3 - 4 cm for weeks.

And the more self - effacing blogs, which are more about the mysteries and mistakes of dating, as opposed to damning anyone in particular.

There was no doubt about his sensitivity or his skill, but I had a feeling the public wasn't quite registering or noticing him, and it had to do with his reticence, or a self - effacing uncertainty as to whether he should be doing movies.

Her best screen assignment at Paramount was as self - effacing script clerk Betty Schaffer in Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard.

Clint Eastwood wisely chose a strong, simple thriller for his first film as a director (1971), and the project is remarkable in its self - effacing dedication to getting the craft right — to laying out the story, building the rhythm, putting the camera in the right place, and establishing small characters with a degree of conviction.

Kudos to Channing Tatum for the kind of self - effacing star turn you wouldn't expect from an actor whose character is both eponymous and «magic»; cheers to Jada Pinkett Smith (as the troupe's hype - woman) and Andie MacDowell (as a wealthy society client whose chaste amusement ripens into something else) for stealing their scenes with the evident pleasure of consummate thieves.

Or, as Soderbergh himself said in his self - effacing and bizarre Q & A after, «Someone, 20 years ago, put Steven Seagal in a movie.

Even after the last twelve months, he is still characteristically self - effacing when he talks about himself as an «actor.»

The climax is moving but somehow deflating as self - effacing heroes complete their battle without the reward of a Hollywood denouement, or a comeuppance for the obstructive Cardinal Law (Len Cariou)-- who is still, for the record, resident in the Vatican.

And so «While We're Young» is essentially a riff on Murphy's «I'm Losing My Edge,» his super witty and self - effacing dance single about a hipster fearing his creeping obsolescence as a newer, more savvy, more wired - in generation redefines what's cool.

Carpenter's fantastically looks as pristine as ever with this Blu - Ray transfer, and those who have had the pleasure of listening to one of the director's giddily unpretentious, self - effacing commentary tracks will be thrilled to learn that the commentary with Carpenter and star Roddy Piper, previously only on a Region 2 DVD, is included.

The pay - cable network was the original home of the series, which ran from August 1992 to May 1998, and starred Shandling as the titular, self - effacing talk show host.

She is inherently funny and self - effacing in a way that does not come off as overly needy or attention - seeking.

If Reynolds does stand in for Anderson, the second hour of Phantom Thread plays as an oddly self - effacing self - portrait, one that is less interested in aesthetic perfection than in emotional honesty.

Colin Firth gives a riveting central performance as a noble underdog with a crippling handicap and a wry, self - effacing sense of humor.

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.

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.

Michael Lovorn, a former K - 12 teacher who now researches humor and teaching as an assistant professor of education at the University of Pittsburgh, also favored self - effacing humor in the classroom.

He also talked about Iwata's good nature and his way of putting other people first as well as his humility, self - effacing style and generosity.

These can be summarized as: the way his picture moves towards the edge of the canvas in centrifugal waves filling to the brim; his completely impulsive use of pigment as a material, generally thick, slow - flowing, viscous, with a sensual attitude toward it, as if it were the primordial material, with deep and vibratory color; the absence of any effacing of the tracks bearing the imprint of the energy passing over the surface.

On one level Cronin's work is about painting as a disintegrating, scarred thing, whose surface consists of layers of history that have been covered and effaced.

Maybe he saw that he never could efface his gestures, so as a literalist he may as well take them as composition and as subject matter.

For Pop Art, it effaces the difference between high and low art as well.

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.