Sentences with phrase «effacing story»

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.

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But despite Beatriz's big innocent eyes and meek, self - effacing appearance, she increasingly interjects herself into the evening's proceedings, interrupting their superficial banter about jet - setting vacations and making lots of money with her own reflections («I could feel the pain of the octopus,» she says, relating a story from her youth.)

It's up to individual viewers to decide the present - day relevance of a story in which a touchy, overweening president can be heard going after a newspaper he deems a personal enemy — «The Post» includes snippets from the actual Nixon tapes — or in which a working woman encounters endless, patronizing slights and condescension, only to come into her own with admirable, self - effacing resolve.

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.

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.

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.

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.

She is self - doubting and self - effacing, and there is no happy ending to this story.

How does one begin to tell the story of Agnes Martin, one of modern art's most original and self - effacing artists, especially when so many aspects of her personal history are shrouded in mystery, misinformation, myth and misunderstanding.