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Quinton replied with typical self-effacement and his trademark sense of humor.
His self-effacement partly explains why his career has often seemed to exist in the shadows.
Shyness, diffidence or self-effacement, she notes, have long been prized national traits.
A nation that prides itself on polite self-effacement has suddenly produced the new star of women's athletics.
Besides, self-effacement is a familiar and standard strategy among mystics who recognize that they are likely to arouse the animus of the establishment.
We get no sense of the caution or self-effacement that conventional accounts of scientific texts lead us to expect.
In this poetic effort, he maintains correctly, "she empowers herself as well, all the while retaining the stance of self-effacement " (114-29).
As such, it is a recognition of our particularity and not a form of radical self-effacement.
Perhaps a bit less 'self-effacement' and awe by our modern composers would also help here so that the audience can latch onto something a bit more meaty and less fragmentry.
Here is one moment in the gradual self-effacement of the scientist that culminated in the disappearance of the first-person singular in scientific publications by the turn of the twentieth century.
One could try to make the argument that there is some virtue of selfeffacement achieved by a residency lottery, a self-effacement important to the practice of medicine itself.
She spoke with characteristic self-effacement of those who suffer burglaries, without mentioning that, regrettably, she is one of them.
Whatever be the cause—whether it be the cause of party movement, or the cause of the nation—that he serves, he serves it with complete self-effacement.
It is a modest request, made with my characteristic modesty and self-effacement.
He had the most perfect good manners, based, as high good manners mostly are, on a dual foundation of self-confidence and self-effacement.
I should like to pay him a tribute for the part that he has played, although, with a certain degree of modesty and self-effacement he failed to take the credit.
It will be remembered when other and more martial exploits are forgotten, and not the least characteristic and admirable of its features was the dignified self-effacement.
He has been my generous and unpaid consultant in so doing, for he knows that my natural self-effacement and reticence prevented me from making any reference to that important point.
But his devotees may consider the self-effacement a deprivation.
