Sentences with phrase «effacing works»

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

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

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.

She was very self - effacing and incredibly hard working and expected this of her sisters and who knows whom else.

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.

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).

I just stopped working 2 - days ago so I've definitely kept active, but I'm only 50 % effaced, I'm not dialated at all and baby still has to drop.

Very occasionally, labor induction doesn't work, especially for first - time mothers and those whose cervix isn't effaced and dilated.

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).

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

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.

Her character is Liliane, a quiet, self - effacing middle - aged woman who works in a food factory.

There's a scene near the conclusion of Woody Allen's latest trifle, Magic in the Moonlight, that recalls the filmmaker's finest work in its fusion of earnest philosophical inquiry and black, self - effacing comedy.

In his inimitably self - effacing yet still detached style, Reeves recalled his adolescent jobs — which included paper routes, landscaping work, sharpening skates at a hockey rink and «an underground Italian specialty food store,» where he enjoyed a five - or six - month rise from «sandwich creator» to manager.

He is nothing if not self - effacing, talking off the cuff about script problems, crediting Garofalo's improvisations on set, and expressing dissatisfaction with his own work.

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.

On one level Cronin's work is about painting as a disintegrating, scarred thing, whose surface consists of layers of history that have been covered and effaced.

Ono's works hearken back to her West Coast predecessors like Mike Kelley and Ed Kienholz with castoff materials and self - effacing humor, but with greater restraint and reductive tendencies.

«DMV Dirt,» opening this week at Long View Gallery, may have a self - effacing title, but visitors are sure to be impressed by the emotional depth of the work.

The juxtaposition of paintings from Shchukin's collection with selected works by the pre-Revolutionary Russian avant - garde will serve to highlight the remarkable role this self - effacing and quite austere man played in the modern movement by promoting the work of some of its greatest exponents.

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.

Though initially reticent, the self - effacing, and occasionally cantankerous Leiter, welcomes director Tomas Leach into his realm, offering a moving reflection on his life, art and work.

Two free standing display case works employ optical films to simultaneously efface the details of the objects beneath and generate iconic silhouettes — a process that can be seen as the delamination of the specificity of the object to reveal what embedded information might be maintained.

This is not one of the works for which Creed was shortlisted, and its paradoxes and propositions would probably seem richer with knowledge of his quizzical, self - effacing wit.

Preoccupied by collective memory and how history gradually effaces anonymous individuals, in this new body of work Avotins communicates subtly through the gaping absence of the human figure.

John Berger describes the work as «a blizzard of white, grey, purplish paint... a terrible blizzard of loss which will forever efface her features.

They're not artists, they don't have a gallery representing their work, and they are self - effacing enough to be both bemused and amused by their selection.

Louis has succinctly captured a particular essence of the man - made and yet his work simultaneously effaces its own moral seriousness, and temporal and mortal constructions.

«Preoccupied by collective memory and how history gradually effaces anonymous individuals, in this new body of work Avotiņš communicates subtly through the gaping absence of the human figure.»

Todd Kelly's and Morgan Mandalay's works reference paintings that are absent from their two - person exhibition — source material that is circumscribed and effaced rather than explicitly revealed...

Some finished works of art efface evidence of the process of their own making.

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