Sentences with phrase «self effacing»

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.

Very witty and self effacing speech by Jeremy Corbyn to the media at Labour drinks.

He was self effacing, he had a great sense of humour as well, so he had great balance.

Not exact matches

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

In most cases, the sketches based on the strangers» perspectives corresponded to more accurate and flattering depictions than those based on the women's own self - effacing descriptions.

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.

He also is self - effacing and secure enough to acknowledge that if his name were Smith or Jones, no one in China would be interested.

Says Graham, a self - effacing Midwesterner:» The client would think he had a marketing problem, and then you'd find out halfway through the project that he really had a cost problem.»

Her private, self - effacing manner hides a deep, authentic personality that has helped invent and commercialize a revolutionary imaging technology, and, in turn, build a multi-million dollar company.

They came off as «self - effacing, quiet, reserved, even shy.»

Satya Nadella, the quiet and self - effacing Microsoft enterprise chief, prevailed over much splashier outside candidates and was named CEO of the software giant today.

With some prompting they will mention their self - effacing dad, Fabian Martinez, 40, helps with the heavy lifting.

It is most likely Khosrowshahi will continue the effective humble - pie, self - effacing strategy he used in his goodbye letter to his longtime Expedia staff yesterday.

In his typical self - effacing manner, Buffett attributed his decision not to invest in Amazon to «stupidity.»

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.

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

The humble and self - effacing win God's approval.

Editors have a self - effacing vocation.

And he is just a likeable, affable and self - effacing human being.

This self - effacing artist seems to conceive of himself almost as an anonymous agent: whatever is expressed in his prints comes from beyond him and is simply transmitted through him.

Whether in the form of totalitarianism or of self - effacing loyalty to political parties, it represents the desire of this age to fly «from the demanding «ever anew»» of personal responsibility «into the protective «once for all»» of membership in a group.

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

There the balding, self - effacing personage of Pastor Chuck Smith (himself raised in Aimee Semple McPherson's International Church of the Foursquare Gospel) presided over the transformation of his small, independent church into a magnet for Orange County's hippies, beach bums and teenagers.

Why does God appear to bless certain flamboyant ministries who uphold questionable teaching, but seem not to bless others who have sought to be sound, self - effacing and honest?

What allowed Jesus to attract to himself so many of those lacking social or religious credentials is his self - effacing desire to exist alongside of them rather than above them.

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.

Because the concept of God has been associated in the minds of many with a reality that is anything but self - effacing or humbly relational, it has become a problematic term itself.

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.

This self - effacing deference displays the metasexual role of «she» which I suggest we associate with Spirit.

This self - effacing and intensely intimate quality of life in the Spirit calls for associating the feminine aspect of Trinity with Spirit.

@mk: No, I call him «Holy,» because he walks the streets of New York BAREFOOT, and because he has enormous humility, as you have seen here in his self - effacing apology.

There's something about the British personality, unlike the American personality that's deferential, it's more self - effacing.

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.

Yet the great horticulturalist could be diffident and self - effacing.

On the podium, however, Payton was more modest and self - effacing than he was on the court.

It would have been humble, funny, and self - effacing, the kind of speech given by someone who was completely content with how everything turned out.

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).

Effacer, after all, survives in English as efface, used almost exclusively as the back end of the hyphenate self - effacing, which accurately describes El Guerrouj.

«Gettin» old,» Sampras shouts to a visitor as he clips theAce bandage that holds the ice in place, a self - effacing proclamation that hedelivers with a deep laugh.

Quiet and self - effacing, Linzmeier suggested that a major factor in her victories had been homesickness; after three years of training with the Mission Viejo team she had returned home to Visalia, Calif. last November for a three - month break from the sport.

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.

Fernando's quick wit and self - effacing sense of humor make him a favorite among his students.

The bad news for Labour is that none of those in the running to succeed her is anywhere near as impressive as Kezia Dugdale, a self - effacing, clever woman who has had enough of the grief that comes with leading a party still fighting for its survival in Scotland.

Rowan Wilson, a low - key and self - effacing corporate lawyer specializing in antitrust and intellectual property, as well as civil rights law, appeared at a friendly hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee.

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.

It was self - effacing in places but clear in terms of saying, here's the choice at the next election: Cameron, who stands up for the wrong people, for tobacco over the cancer charities, [or] Ed Miliband the man on the side of ordinary families worried about their energy bills.

So while the new self - effacing Ed is a likeable sort of chap, capable of winning over voters on the streets, the «erk» approach is never going to be enough to get him into Downing Street.

(Heastie) has a quiet, self - effacing attitude that makes it hard to read him.»

Rowan Wilson, a low - key and self - effacing corporate lawyer specializing in anti-trust and intellectual property, among other things, as well as civil rights law, appeared at a friendly hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee.

She's funny in a self - effacing way.