Sentences with phrase «effacing in»

Pearl is self - effacing in conversation, making it easy to see where his modesty at branding himself comes from.

Most of the pieces are modest in size, humble in materials and self - effacing in effect.

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.

He wasn't just understanding of my plight; he was genuinely kind, accommodating, and self - effacing in our first encounters — all this from a man with no need to be solicitous, possessing a stellar reputation and gaudy resume.

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

Carell is wonderfully self - effacing in the role.

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

It was self - effacing in places but clear in terms of saying, here's the choice at the next election: Cameron, who stands up for the wrong people, for tobacco over the cancer charities, [or] Ed Miliband the man on the side of ordinary families worried about their energy bills.

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.

The digital cinematography seeks to seamlessly efface itself in the task of producing a convincing depiction of a bygone era.

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.

Not exact matches

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

In most cases, the sketches based on the strangers» perspectives corresponded to more accurate and flattering depictions than those based on the women's own self - effacing descriptions.

He also is self - effacing and secure enough to acknowledge that if his name were Smith or Jones, no one in China would be interested.

Her private, self - effacing manner hides a deep, authentic personality that has helped invent and commercialize a revolutionary imaging technology, and, in turn, build a multi-million dollar company.

It is most likely Khosrowshahi will continue the effective humble - pie, self - effacing strategy he used in his goodbye letter to his longtime Expedia staff yesterday.

In his typical self - effacing manner, Buffett attributed his decision not to invest in Amazon to «stupidity.&raquIn his typical self - effacing manner, Buffett attributed his decision not to invest in Amazon to «stupidity.&raquin Amazon to «stupidity.»

In squeezing civil society and in effacing the distinction between levels of government, the President's vision would seem to leave little room for the development or maintenance of a rightly ordered relationship between the individual and the communitIn squeezing civil society and in effacing the distinction between levels of government, the President's vision would seem to leave little room for the development or maintenance of a rightly ordered relationship between the individual and the communitin effacing the distinction between levels of government, the President's vision would seem to leave little room for the development or maintenance of a rightly ordered relationship between the individual and the community.

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.

«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.»

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

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.

Whether in the form of totalitarianism or of self - effacing loyalty to political parties, it represents the desire of this age to fly «from the demanding «ever anew»» of personal responsibility «into the protective «once for all»» of membership in a group.

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.

There the balding, self - effacing personage of Pastor Chuck Smith (himself raised in Aimee Semple McPherson's International Church of the Foursquare Gospel) presided over the transformation of his small, independent church into a magnet for Orange County's hippies, beach bums and teenagers.

Because the concept of God has been associated in the minds of many with a reality that is anything but self - effacing or humbly relational, it has become a problematic term itself.

In the Warta district members of the hierarchy were brutally beaten, the clergy were decimated in a frightful manner, seminars, numerous establishments of religious orders and all Catholic schools and associations were abolished, ecclesiastical property was expropriated, sisters were driven - from their convents, churches in large part were closed, wayside crosses and shrines were destroyed, Polish inscriptions on gravestones were effaced and loyalty to religion was made extremely difficult and was ridiculed in every conceivable manner and more than three million Polish Catholics were left completely outside the pale of the law and were at the mercy of the despotic whims of the National SocialistIn the Warta district members of the hierarchy were brutally beaten, the clergy were decimated in a frightful manner, seminars, numerous establishments of religious orders and all Catholic schools and associations were abolished, ecclesiastical property was expropriated, sisters were driven - from their convents, churches in large part were closed, wayside crosses and shrines were destroyed, Polish inscriptions on gravestones were effaced and loyalty to religion was made extremely difficult and was ridiculed in every conceivable manner and more than three million Polish Catholics were left completely outside the pale of the law and were at the mercy of the despotic whims of the National Socialistin a frightful manner, seminars, numerous establishments of religious orders and all Catholic schools and associations were abolished, ecclesiastical property was expropriated, sisters were driven - from their convents, churches in large part were closed, wayside crosses and shrines were destroyed, Polish inscriptions on gravestones were effaced and loyalty to religion was made extremely difficult and was ridiculed in every conceivable manner and more than three million Polish Catholics were left completely outside the pale of the law and were at the mercy of the despotic whims of the National Socialistin large part were closed, wayside crosses and shrines were destroyed, Polish inscriptions on gravestones were effaced and loyalty to religion was made extremely difficult and was ridiculed in every conceivable manner and more than three million Polish Catholics were left completely outside the pale of the law and were at the mercy of the despotic whims of the National Socialistin every conceivable manner and more than three million Polish Catholics were left completely outside the pale of the law and were at the mercy of the despotic whims of the National Socialists.

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.

This self - effacing and intensely intimate quality of life in the Spirit calls for associating the feminine aspect of Trinity with Spirit.

@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?

You really have to take your hat off to the hazelnut, grown in a tough and protective outer shell, it's only when taking the time to scratch beneath the surface, that you are able to reap the many nutritional benefits that this self - effacing nut provides.

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).

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.»

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.

Quiet and self - effacing, Linzmeier suggested that a major factor in her victories had been homesickness; after three years of training with the Mission Viejo team she had returned home to Visalia, Calif. last November for a three - month break from the sport.

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.

Heck, one of the reasons I'm glad I got my section the day that I did is that I was effaced and had been having more intense contractions, and there's a distinct possibility that I would have gone into natural labor that night, in the middle of a blizzard, with a breech baby.

Indeed, the effaced priorities of July 1952 were among those upheld, alongside the call for democracy, in January 2011: rejection of foreign interference and dependency, and the promotion of social justice and equality.

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.

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.

She's funny in a self - effacing way.

Those who've spent time with the soft - spoken Bronx native say he's both razor sharp and self - effacing — qualities that don't always come together in one person, especially in state government.

«He's self - effacing and modest,» says Roth, and has the manners and charm of an old - fashioned gentleman: He still kisses a woman's hand in greeting.