Sentences with phrase «effacing way»

She's funny in a self - effacing way.

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

They are also one of the easiest, self - effacing ways to promote your work, whether you are looking to publish or sell an already - published book or collection.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Flanked by his hapless sidekick (a hilariously thick Jeffrey Tambor) and a raging producer (Rip Torn), Larry interacts with celebrities on and off the stage in ways that push Shandling's self - effacing comedy into the realms of seminal squirm humor.

There's enormous affection in the way the camera pans over Lady Bird's pink - painted bedroom walls and notices her acne scars and the doodles on the cast of her arm: It's a quiet celebration of details that are often effaced or ignored, and that makes it feel aesthetically fresh.

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

«Thank you very much,» he says in his self - effacing, Japanese way.

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.

Color field painters efface the individual mark in favor of large, flat, stained and soaked areas of color, considered to be the essential nature of visual abstraction along with the actual shape of the canvas, which Frank Stella in particular achieved in unusual ways with combinations of curved and straight edges.

Seeking new ways to negate or efface the picture plane, artists such as Douglas Gordon, Mark Grotjahn, Wade Guyton, Adam McEwen, Albert Oehlen, Richard Prince, and Rudolf Stingel represent sustained challenges to the limits of painting, both real and imagined.

As Zhang says, he is creating a «societal landscape,» one where, whether he is manipulating an image of a building in Chelsea or one half way around the world in China, his aim is not to efface but to meld disparate concepts and histories, disparate types of visual information, and make yet a third thing — a multifaceted, multi-media, object for contemplation.

This self - effacing image is much too modest, belying the way Hopps relished the roles of collaborator, confidant and go - between.

«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.

As further defined by the Urban Dictionary, the Humblebrag is a way of «subtly letting others now about how fantastic your life is while undercutting it with a bit of self - effacing humor or «woe is me» gloss.»

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

63 Immediately on the receipt of a poll return envelope, without effacing or covering any seals already affixed to it, the returning officer shall affix a seal prescribed by the Chief Electoral Officer in such a way that the envelope can not be opened without the seal being broken and shall take every precaution for its safekeeping and for preventing any person other than himself or herself and the election clerk from having access to it.