Sentences with phrase «effacing good»

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

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

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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.

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?

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.

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.

When Nick Clegg elbowed aside Scottish secretary Michael Moore, whose self - effacing, sweet reason out - smarted Alex Salmond in the Edinburgh Agreement negotiations, it was because he reckoned his replacement, the genially feisty Alistair Carmichael, would be a better match for the SNP leader in next year's Independence campaign.

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).

Hofstadter: Yeah, well what I remember is he came to pick me up at the train station, and he was very, very sweet, very kind, very gentle and very humble, and his sense of humor came out very quickly and it was a self - effacing sense of humor.

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.

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

Research shows that a more subdued and self - effacing contact works best.

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

At its best, it is self - effacing fun.But the cartoonish approach takes its toll: The random twists and contrived showdowns devolve into just so much abstract business, too silly to take seriously and too unmotivated to make sense.

There was no better moment for him to tell a story that dismantles the concept of The Great Maker, a self - effacing portrait that thumbs its nose at any mythology that justifies poor behaviour with artistic output.

Not many current actors who are known for self - effacing screen comedy can do this kind of thing well.

Then there's the comedy - good enough that non-comic book fans will likely go along for the self - effacing ride, assuming they aren't taken aback about how hard «R» Deadpool really is.

In the end, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot plays like a slightly above - average version of the narrative where a single gal (or in the movie's self - effacing parlance, «white lady») finds herself — and even that business was better - handled (and tweaked with more specificity) on Fey's TV show.

With his self - effacing, good - humored cynicism extending beyond the war zones, he is able to reach deep inside each area to the people locked inside them.

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.

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.

And Biesenbach is also director of MoMA PS1, all but effacing its origins as alternative space in favor of a pebbled courtyard good for little more than summer parties.

Because such works often leave visible the underlying skeleton and many changes normally effaced in the act of completion, they are prized for providing access to the artist's thoughts, as well as to his or her working process.

«It's about effacing the difference between other and self, and seeing the elasticity of all these lives you could have led,» says Hammond, who in recent years has become admittedly obsessed with collecting vernacular photography and now owns well over 10,000 images that find their way into her art.

Despite your self - effacing comments, HotScot, you are clearly a very knowledgeable, articulate, well - informed and engaged contributor on this site.

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