Sentences with phrase «self effacement»

For more examples of this supernaturally - tilting self effacement, see the humorously titled Self - Elf and Schrödinger's Katz (both 2016).

Not exact matches

One of them is his own self - effacement that led him to shy from the limelight and work modestly and humbly in the background.

The «downsizing» Keillor describes isn't about self «effacement, but about letting the delicate drama of Creation unfold on God's terms.

There's a sort of necessary self - effacement in being a minister of Christian religion, I think, and that's quite hard to sustain when you're constantly popping up on various things.

But Shakespeare thrived in this demanding environment, and precisely because he tended by nature, if the sonnets are any indication, toward self «effacement, even self «abasement.

If you get rid of your individual self with all its shortcomings and doubts by utmost self - effacement, you free yourself from the feeling of your own nothingness and can participate in God's glory.6

The weakness and humility of the people, even their plainness, ordinariness and self - effacement, are the fertile soil in which things like love, generosity, and wisdom grow.»

To be humble is not an act of self - effacement best cultivated by spending years in a monastery.

In a 9 - 0 victory over Ohio Wesleyan in 1979, Denison Quarterback John Parsons put on a remarkable display of self - effacement and / or masochism when he called Little All - America Tailback Clay Sampson's number an Ohio Athletic Conference - record 54 times.

Frankly, for all the sound and fury with respect to state regulation (which everyone seems to assume Leveson will recommend when he reports on Thursday) and its potentially malign impact on investigative journalism, two things stick out like Chris Bryant MP at a meeting of the Self - Effacement Society.

Logan Lucky's large ensemble cast brings a layer of amiable backwoods vamping to the tone of gentle self - effacement; Keough and Driver speak at opposite speeds with adept comic timing, and Tatum again makes an ideal muse for a filmmaker obsessed and fascinated by work.

Chief Willoughby himself, played with sturdy acceptance and flickers of self - effacement by a wonderful Woody Harrelson, is less outraged than the rest.

Robert Greene's Kate Plays Christine pivots on several paradoxes: of acting, which involves self - expression via self - effacement; of media, which parasitically feeds on people, offering audiences catharsis while enslaving them with feelings of inferiority; and of the relationship between fiction and nonfiction, which is characterized by an illusion of distinguishability that affirms the greater illusion of the existence of objectivity.

This person — truly as smart and thoughtful as they come — in what I think was genuine self - effacement, lit up, smiled half - sheepishly, and said, «We progressive technocrats just don't think like that.»

Because of this, the passages about Danticat's own childhood never fully snap into focus and she can only gesture toward her feeling of abandonment when her parents move to the U.S.. For at least one reviewer, this self - effacement compromises Danticat's honesty with the reader, especially since she was writing acclaimed novels and winning literary renown as the book's events unfolded.

Bookended artistically and conceptually by two paintings, Mark Rothko's Untitled (1968) and Gerhard Richter's Abstract Painting (613 - 3)(1986), the exhibition charts the alternating appeal of gesture, authenticity, and self - expression, on the one hand, and irony, appropriation, self - effacement, on the other.

Take two artists at such opposite extremes as self - display and self - effacement, conceptual art and painting, political art and abstraction.

This entire exhibition is a mysterious collage of art, life and history, a vast sprawling array of fragments, a mental cabinet of curiosities that is both self - portrait and self - effacement.

Viewing Hiorns» canvases, our numb digits slowly warming, we might interpret the washes of brain matter as an allusion to both the blinking out of consciousness at the moment of death, and to incidences of Creutzfeldt - Jakob disease in abattoir workers exposed to bovine cerebral tissue — an effacement of the self by the violence of Capital.

In this sense, Creed is made to seem loud and self ‑ regarding next to Richard Wright's more convincing self - effacement.

Magic knit of sheer nylon yarn, these depositories are the ultimate in self - effacement, you are the only one who knows you are wearing it.

One could also call it a deliberate self - effacement.

One can see it as object or abstraction, self - reflection or self - effacement.

Melting under the heat, the performers» make - up is a tenuous composition, eventually smeared away in a gesture of (choreographed) self - effacement.

As they become obstacles to Creed's sprinters, the art lovers» self - effacement is revealed as a kind of narcissism.

Babaeva draws from her own art history so that forms, re-animated by the artist, become enablers of a simultaneous reincarnation and self - effacement, a seemingly paradoxical cycle that suggests no end.

This self - effacement was no mere act of modesty; it doubled as a subtle send - up of the overly large wall labels.

The Brucennial 2012, billed with some measure of self - effacement as «the single most important art exhibition in the history of the world,» opened big last week, with visitors standing in light rain for up to 2 hours to get into the show's beer - fueled launch party at 159 Bleecker Street in the West Village.

On the surface, such candid self - effacement seems unlikely in a writer whose work is so searching and confident, but Killian's apparent lack of ego may be connected to his fascination with makeshift art.

I saw a one - liner vs. self - effacement.

I identified the fourth ingredient on the list, «irony... the self - effacement and examination by which a man for an instant can go on to something else,» in Mural, Section 6 (Untitled)[Seagram Mural].

Projecting an endearing combination of self - effacement and plantation cynicism, Shacquille O'Neal, the # 1 NBA draft pick, said in a recent TV profile, «I've got three different smiles: the $ 1 million smile, the $ 2 million smile, and the $ 3 million smile.»

I have yet to see much of a sense of humility or self - effacement among climatologists.