Sentences with phrase «effacing when»

Highly successful executives don't boast about their accomplishments and are even self - effacing when discussing success.

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

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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.

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.»

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.

When your health - care providers talk about your cervix opening up, they'll probably say it's dilating, the medical term for opening, and effacing, the medical term for thinning.

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.

For a start, it helped people realise when they were being either obnoxious or unduly self - effacing.

When I move into a neighborhood, I wipe it out,» says the funny, self - effacing Sammy Davis, Jr. in this enlightening look at his controversial life (remember the career - killing photo of him hugging Nixon?).

Director Todd Louiso, screenwriter Gordy Hoffman, and star Philip Seymour Hoffman play nicely off each other in a feature - length commentary in which the film seems to reveal itself anew to the self - effacing trio, who revel in psychoanalyzing Love Liza's characters and, when you get down to it, defending them.

When Rian Johnson finished his third directorial effort, 2012's brainy sci - fi action indie Looper, he posted a typically self - effacing tweet.»

When we ignore students» identities, we efface who they are in the world and lose a rich resource for learning.

What, then, is at stake when art adopts words — or effaces them?

The generally modest size of his panels gives added breadth to the stripes — and added weight to Voisine's care in effacing his brushwork when he wishes.

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.

Tate Modern's Turbine Hall commissions have set a certain standard for scale in art making at a time when many artists have retreated from the big, brash statement towards the self - effacing, the...

Tate Modern's Turbine Hall commissions have set a certain standard for scale in art making at a time when many artists have retreated from the big, brash statement towards the self - effacing, the handmade, the infra - mince.

He is the most self effacing British painter of the twentieth century, abandoning figurative painting in 1947, when he was 39, in favour of the abstract, behind which he concealed himself for five decades.