Weingart stared straight ahead, his expression self-effacing, his hands resting on the spokes of his steering wheel. From Wordnik.com. [The Glass Rainbow] Reference
Lily is a rather private person and has been described as self-effacing. From Wordnik.com. [HerScopes] Reference
Joseph Ratzinger is also remarkably self-effacing. From Wordnik.com. [PERSPECTIVE: THE REAL BENEDICT] Reference
In person, Nicholson is gracious and self-effacing. From Wordnik.com. [About Jack] Reference
But every piece started with a few self-effacing words. From Wordnik.com. [A Ballad of New York, Lived and Played for All] Reference
Yet he is endowed with self-knowledge and self-effacing dignity. From Wordnik.com. [What These Eyes Have Seen] Reference
Even the self-effacing Friedlander admits that it turned out "all right.". From Wordnik.com. [Hot Portraits Of Cool] Reference
Naturally humble and self-effacing, she had no ambition to shine socially. From Wordnik.com. [Marjorie Dean High School Sophomore] Reference
Soft-spoken and self-effacing, Tamm has an impish smile and a wry sense of humor. From Wordnik.com. [The Fed Who Blew the Whistle] Reference
Only a working girl, plain in appearance and in dress, diffident and self-effacing. From Wordnik.com. [Mary Slessor of Calabar: Pioneer Missionary] Reference
At the other extreme, we find self-effacing and schizoid (crowd-hating) technocrats. From Wordnik.com. [Terrorists and Freedom Fighters] Reference
Morgan had just struck the bottom of the precipice in his wild, self-effacing dream. From Wordnik.com. [Trail's End] Reference
Though self-effacing and not prone to speechifying, Marshall used a few basic maxims. From Wordnik.com. [The Plan And The Man] Reference
"It was as good as I ever could have imagined," says the handsome, self-effacing teen. From Wordnik.com. [Hamming It Up] Reference
Throughout her public career, she has been self-effacing to the point of invisibility. From Wordnik.com. [Mild About Harriet] Reference
Card is patient and self-effacing, and he bided his time in the first year and a half. From Wordnik.com. [Living Politics: Why Card's Star Is On The Rise] Reference
Private and self-effacing, he has for years politely turned down requests for interviews. From Wordnik.com. [The Paragon Of Reporters] Reference
"I'll leave you two to business," Bink said in his characteristically self-effacing manner. From Wordnik.com. [Matt Slade, Esq.--Pro Bono Czar] Reference
In her husband's career she has played a notable rôle, the more noble because self-effacing. From Wordnik.com. [Woodrow Wilson as I Know Him] Reference
(For the record, crime has continued to fall under Bratton's self-effacing successor, Howard Safir.). From Wordnik.com. [We'll Take Manhattan] Reference
Schuller's beliefs have evolved a long way from the self-effacing Calvinism of his rural Iowa parents. From Wordnik.com. [From The Glass House To The White House] Reference
She's refreshingly self-effacing, so much so that she seems genuinely uncomfortable talking about herself. From Wordnik.com. [Amy Adams: When You Wish Upon a Movie Star] Reference
Rouse, who died last Tuesday at 81, would go down as the world's most self-effacing real-estate developer. From Wordnik.com. [James Rouse Sparked New Life In Old Cities] Reference
And he relied on no one more than England, a self-effacing secretary of the Navy and defense-industry executive. From Wordnik.com. [A New View At Defense] Reference
Shelley Buchanan seems just the opposite -- a self-effacing woman who plays the stereotypical role of Adoring Wife. From Wordnik.com. [The Women In His Life] Reference
The first act featured mock conversations with therapists, including Freud, that were more inane than self-effacing. From Wordnik.com. [Happy Days Are Here Again--Again] Reference
It was one of those self-effacing moments that the Japanese have come to expect from the Self-Defense Forces, or SDF. From Wordnik.com. [FUEL TO THE FIRE] Reference
Lately, those zero percent financing offers are about as hard to find at auto dealers as shy, self-effacing salespeople. From Wordnik.com. [LOANS: BUYING YOUR RIDE] Reference
After years of museum designs that shout "Look at me!" the self-effacing elegance of the New Museum really does feel new. From Wordnik.com. [Ending the Era of the Starchitect] Reference
Ever self-effacing, Parsons offers this success formula: "Ten percent who you know, 10 percent what you know, and 80 percent luck.". From Wordnik.com. [The Race To The Top] Reference
But in this supple narrative, packed with erudition and yet leavened by Rabassa's mordant, often self-effacing wit, less becomes more. From Wordnik.com. [FLIRTING WITH TREASON] Reference
"Whispering John" Bardeen the low-key, famously self-effacing theorist, would become the only person ever to win two Nobels in physics. From Wordnik.com. [The Transistor] Reference
Voters have been enthralled by Yudhoyono's carefully cultivated image of strength, but even more so by his humble, self-effacing manner. From Wordnik.com. [A CROWD PLEASER] Reference
The self-effacing 59-year-old is Indonesia's corruption czar, charged with weeding out graft in one of the world's most corrupt countries. From Wordnik.com. ['WORRY AND SACRIFICE'] Reference
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