| 单词 | self-effacement |
| 例句 | It is safer, you conclude, to choose self-effacement at this critical moment in your career. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Except for its title, the two-hour show was no tribute to wifely self-effacement. Music Review: Beyoncé’s ‘Mrs. Carter Show’ at Izod Center 2013-08-01T16:19:36Z Mr. Pryce offers a more complex reprise of the Philip Roth archetype he played in “Listen Up Philip,” while Ms. Close sublimely captures her character’s blend of determination and self-effacement. Review: ‘The Wife’ Looks Behind the Closed Doors of a Literary Marriage 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z Righteous self-effacement that isn’t afraid of sentiment—this is the new way to flip off the powers that be. The Scandalous Dullness of MTV’s First Post-Millennial V.M.A.s 2018-08-21T04:00:00Z We are no longer used to the sort of self-effacement Faye practices and yet it is found in the mystic traditions of nearly all religions. Rachel Cusk Strips the Novel Down to Its Frame. Again. 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z Surrounded by tables of noisy Soho media types, Wood gazes into her lap, and when a waiter clears away her breakfast she shrinks even further into herself, jumpy with self-effacement. Victoria Wood: 'I feel at the BBC I'm not trusted, not valued, not needed' 2010-09-27T06:59:00Z Still, as veterans of the trade point out, it takes more than a killer eye, a Calvinist work ethic and a capacity for self-effacement to rise to the rank of power stylist. Hollywood?s Power Stylists 2012-01-13T22:05:14Z With a knack for self-effacement, he lets the personalities of his clients take the lead. Books 2010-03-01T00:00:00Z “Jim’s problem isn’t with you; it’s with me. He thinks I’m a dummy,” Ford told Kissinger with characteristic self-effacement. Gerald Ford, President Nice Guy 2018-06-26T04:00:00Z His writing evinced the perfect balance of self-effacement and effortless style that only comes with intensely concentrated work and attention to craft. Perspective | I lost touch with a friend from the Capital Gazette. Now I’ve lost him forever. 2018-07-01T04:00:00Z Watching, you witness images of self-effacement: the dancer opens his or her eyes, arms and, apparently, soul to aspects of the divine. Dance Review: Indian Dances at the Erasing Borders Festival 2013-08-16T22:24:56Z Krieps, who now mostly lives in Berlin with her two children, said that her desire for self-effacement was largely rooted in her upbringing in Luxembourg, a tiny duchy squeezed between Belgium, France and Germany. Vicky Krieps Gave Hollywood One More Try. It Wasn’t So Bad. 2021-07-28T04:00:00Z Menzel expresses a similar self-effacement when explaining why, over the years, she hasn’t been a consistent presence on film or television despite meaty roles in movies like “Enchanted” and a recurring gig on TV’s “Glee.” ‘Frozen’ and Broadway star Idina Menzel: ‘I still feel like a rookie’ 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z Fans of Crosley’s signature humor — a blend of upbeat and offbeat self-effacement — will not be disappointed. The Essays Are Personal. The Truths Are Universal. 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z With this profound ululation of self-effacement, the Eeyore of Bake Off shuffled into our lives. Bake Off at 10: the greatest moments from the nine series so far 2019-08-26T04:00:00Z In keeping with Stoicism’s tenets about self-effacement, in Holiday’s Twitter profile photo his face is completely covered by his two hands. Bringing Down a Media Empire 2018-02-27T05:00:00Z With characteristic self-effacement, he describes himself as "the nexus of some of the key political and personal relationships which shaped New and therefore recent British political history". The Alastair Campbell Diaries Volume One: Prelude to Power 2010-06-05T23:05:00Z This self-effacement, Willgoose said, is intended as an ego check, and as a way of directing the audience’s focus to the music and accompanying visuals. The Archival Delights of Public Service Broadcasting 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z Mr. Birney, a recent Tony winner for “The Humans,” inhabits and fills Ken’s tenuous world with a paradoxically commanding air of self-effacement. Review: ‘Man From Nebraska’ Delivers a Midlife Crisis of Faith 2017-02-15T05:00:00Z My sense is that people like Tal Fortgang are hearing just this sort of call to self-effacement in requests to “check your white privilege,” and experiencing such a call as deeply unjust and dehumanizing. How whites should talk about white privilege: (Hint, it’s not like Tal Fortgang) 2014-05-07T11:45:00Z Who needs peppy drive and 6am workouts when bumbling self-effacement and crossed fingers will do? Ice baths before breakfast? Just say no to the lifestyles of the rich and famous 2019-04-13T04:00:00Z His declared intention is to be an egoless conductor, a seemingly implausible goal in a profession not known for self-effacement, and perhaps an undesirable one. Colin Davis Brings London Symphony to Carnegie Hall 2011-10-16T01:25:19Z In this sense, Creed is made to seem loud and self‑regarding next to Richard Wright's more convincing self-effacement. Prickly customers: Martin Creed and Richard Wright in Edinburgh 2010-08-04T20:31:00Z The photographs aren’t about Richards and yet this communication is achieved through his remarkable skill, his self-effacement and his genuine interest in people. Post 9/11 photographs capture a city reeling from tragedy 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z Ms. Slate, if not quite the revelation she was in “Obvious Child,” offers another winning study in frazzle and self-effacement. Review: ‘My Blind Brother,’ Who Is Also a Major Pain 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z So the night kicked off with typical self-effacement, as well as by-special-celebrity-guests-effacement. David Letterman Leaves Us, Laughing 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z Although filled with good insights on cultivating healthier relationships at home and work, the book is written from the standpoint of an urbane sophisticate, who often cops to average-Jane language and aw-shucks self-effacement. Review | The benefits — and limits — of today’s gratitude movement 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z The videos turn on sweetness and goodwill and self-effacement. Drake and Karena Evans Stage a Clever “Degrassi” Reunion 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z Animated and gregarious by nature, Ms. Robinson knows that the best guests combine a talent for conversation with a knack for domestic flexibility and extreme self-effacement. The Serial Sleepover Artist 2011-04-13T23:55:51Z It may help to explain why, throughout his career, he risked the radical depersonalization and self-effacement of his art, why he pursued unconscious resonances, irrational wonders, metaphysical mysteries of life and death. Postscript: Jacques Rivette 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z So how does a country built on self-effacement celebrate itself in front of the entire world? 2010-02-12T14:01:00Z Healthy egotists, on the other hand, can afford the self-effacement, or the self-mockery. Cultural Studies: On Celebrities Good and Bad, or Alec Baldwin 2012-06-29T20:57:20Z More crucially for an R&B artist at this stage in her career it establishes a persona and a set of coordinates, roughly at the point of intersection between self-effacement and self-empowerment. New Music: Releases From Kurt Feldman, Elle Varner and Marcus Miller 2012-08-06T22:24:05Z Rejecting or deflecting an admiring comment, rather than acting as simple self-effacement, also serves a very basic and useful social function: it keeps the conversation going. The Hidden Benefits of Not Taking a Compliment 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z “I’m not Frederick Wiseman, in many ways,” James jokes, leaning into self-effacement despite a world-class body of work. 'What's it like to be black in this system?': inside a Chicago high school 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z His presentation is a textbook example of the art of self-aggrandizement through affected self-effacement. ‘Moby Doc’ Review: He Understands How He’s an Unlikely Pop Star 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z But while self-effacement is a trait we usually embrace in celebrities — and a useful PR tactic for some of our less-likable stars — it’s not working for Leno. Surprise, surprise: Jay Leno is still a douchebag 2015-03-24T04:00:00Z I suggested that perhaps he wore self-effacement as protective camouflage. A Modest Encounter with Russell Baker 2019-01-26T05:00:00Z For white advocates, shutting up doesn’t do anything to disable these privileges, nor do silence and self-effacement offer any substantive acknowledgement or critique of white privilege. How whites should talk about white privilege: (Hint, it’s not like Tal Fortgang) 2014-05-07T11:45:00Z On the original “I’m New Here,” the flickering gloom of Mr. Russell’s production often made Scott-Heron sound cloistered and defeated, even as his poetry pulsed with its typical humor, self-effacement and vision. Gil Scott-Heron’s Legacy Is a Work in Progress 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z Or perhaps worse than those fates is the fate of self-effacement. Review: Seriously Satirizing 231 Years of Flotus in ‘45 Plays’ 2020-10-12T04:00:00Z He wore glasses and was slightly built, a pleasant-looking, engaging, well-mannered optimist steeped in the tribal codes of privileged Wasp self-effacement. Tuesdays with William Zinsser 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z Still, with his website informing us he is "now an international celebrity himself", do consider Sir Parky the last word in self-effacement. 'Russell Brand is pointless,' says Michael Parkinson 2010-10-14T19:00:00Z The most extreme contrast to Finkel's narrative self-effacement is the style of Dexter Filkins, whose The Forever War operates at a comparable level of literary excellence. The human heart of the matter 2010-06-11T23:05:00Z In a series of posts to Reddit’s financial independence message board, Mr. Long chronicled with dry wit and self-effacement his first year in retirement. How to Retire in Your 30s With $1 Million in the Bank 2018-09-01T04:00:00Z "Absolutely," comes his fast answer, spoken, as ever, gently and with a strange mix of confidence and self-effacement. Peter Ackroyd: 'I just want to tell a story' 2011-08-25T13:51:05Z He cited the autobiography of Ulysses S. Grant as a model, praising Grant's self-effacement and ability to capture a vital experience in a sentence or two. Former Afghan commander McChrystal writing memoir 2010-12-21T22:03:47Z The self-effacement is also characteristic of a poet who, unusually, says he is "more interested in other people's poems than my own". Dear Life by Dennis O'Driscoll - review 2012-06-29T21:55:02Z “Acting felt like the thing I could fake, because everybody else was so good at everything,” she said with typical self-effacement. In ‘Fatal Attraction,’ Lizzy Caplan Makes a Mess 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z "It was a miracle," he says – and then with typical self-effacement takes the word back. Leon Kossoff's love affair with London 2013-04-27T10:00:04Z If that is the sense the national leadership finds in that day, why should we expect much more from cultural commemorations than miscellany, euphemism, self-effacement and self-blame? Critic?s Notebook: 9/11 Memorials: Many Perspectives, Few Answers 2011-09-02T23:58:41Z That self-effacement almost obscures the high levels of creativity and skill required to make everything at King appear so simple. Glugs of Olive Oil, Flurries of Cheese and Two New Menus Every Day 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z “It must be my hormones,” she joked of the pattern, reverting to her baseline of reflexive self-effacement. The Amy Adams Method 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z This may please his detractors, but I'm not sure such self-effacement makes for a convincing best director win. Ang Lee's Life of Pi for top gongs? 2013-01-22T15:20:00Z His work has a wonderful economy and clarity, and also a strange combination of self-effacement and freakish control. The Guggenheim Shows First On Kawara Retrospective 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z The overall sense of confident self-effacement, the group as one entity and the music speaking for itself, felt true to Coltrane. Music Review: Reggie Workman and Eric Reed at Rose Theater - Review 2011-10-30T22:55:47Z Yet, in Robert Hamer's 1954 film, Alec Guinness was perfect casting, a master of self-effacement playing another, the kind of actor who could dominate a film while somehow simultaneously vanishing from it. Father Brown: the empathetic detective 2013-01-18T20:00:03Z The band unveil tracks from their imminent fifth album with their traditional self-effacement. Coldplay ? review 2011-07-24T17:27:01Z “Ann’s most outstanding trait — apart from her beautiful work — is her modesty. She is known for her reticence and self-effacement.” Reading Elena Ferrante in English? You’re Also Reading Ann Goldstein 2020-08-21T04:00:00Z Slight self-effacement about your decision may be your friend: “Thank you so much for thinking of us, but we’re still being overly cautious about social distancing.” 'With restrictions easing, how do we tell someone we don’t want them in our bubble?' 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z “Sometimes you got to do the right thing, not what you want to do,” says Sy in a rare moment of filmed introspection, and there is something ineffably sad in this grateful self-effacement. Movie Review | 'Dancing Across Borders': Anne Bass Documentary on Teenage Ballet Prot?g? From Cambodia 2010-03-26T02:10:00Z The paradox of Hanks is that he is pure Hollywood star quality mixed with self-effacement and it works very well in a drama where the huge impacts of warfare distract you from the acting. The 25 best Tom Hanks films – ranked! 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z The self-effacement, admirers say, is why he has hardly ever denied one of the harshest allegations against him: That he was among church leaders who actively supported Argentina’s murderous dictatorship. Papal election stirs memories of Argentina’s “Dirty War” 2013-03-14T15:33:00Z This kind of self-effacement entered into almost all of his work, almost always to its benefit. Alexander Chancellor’s Laugh 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z The premise of the novel is ridiculous – a Brazilian ghost writer completes his self-effacement by disappearing into Budapest – but Buarque sells it so well that, by the end, your own existence feels equally ridiculous. Books of the year 2012: authors choose their favourites 2012-11-23T22:55:14Z Modesty, wit, self-effacement: They shape every line of his work. Working with the poet who told us to ‘Praise the Mutilated World’ 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z While the spectacle of awards shows can be embarrassing, a cringe-making combo of self-congratulation and self-effacement, the hype always gets me in the end. Cinema Studies 2023-01-14T05:00:00Z As the interview winds down, Sharpton calls himself, with an uncharacteristic mix of self-effacement and understatement, “some fat guy from Brooklyn who lost the weight and got some stuff done.” Review | ‘Loudmouth’: Rev. Al Sharpton reflects on a career as a ‘blowup man’ 2022-12-05T05:00:00Z “One of the reasons Boseman was such a marvelous actor was his genius for self-effacement, his ability to hold the spotlight without dominating it,” Chang writes. 'Black Panther: Wakanda Forever' takes the box-office throne, breaks November record 2022-11-13T05:00:00Z One of the reasons Boseman was such a marvelous actor was his genius for self-effacement, his ability to hold the spotlight without dominating it. Review: In the shadow of grief, 'Wakanda Forever' forges messily but valiantly ahead 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z “Fundamentally, it was a terrible hire,” Adamack said with characteristic self-effacement. Recently retired Mariners exec Randy Adamack was face of franchise behind the scenes for 44 seasons 2022-05-07T04:00:00Z His self-effacement undergirds a political pragmatism that allows him to pivot when certain ideas grow unpopular or he needs to cater to a particularly powerful constituency. Japan’s Election Was Closer Than Usual, Even Though Party in Power Has Hit Snooze 2021-10-30T04:00:00Z These characters, with their separate agendas, are intended to awaken Tell and to propel him to end his self-effacement. ‘The Card Counter’ review: Oscar Isaac, with quiet intensity, is this film’s ace player 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z Remembering that moment now, Matt Damon flashed his movie-star smile, then slipped back into self-effacement. Matt Damon’s Disappearing Acts 2021-07-27T04:00:00Z In between the song and dance, he’d read poems in a similar mode: an intersection of high art and low humor, amusing yet serious, endearing in their self-effacement. Long Beach State's Gerald Locklin, Bukowski's drinking pal, left a lasting mark on writing — and writers 2021-06-29T04:00:00Z Jensen calls his chosen profession — which he describes, with a tone of self-effacement and a touch of longing, as “glad-handing from table to table to sell wine” — as “fundamentally preposterous.” These virtual beer, wine and cocktail classes serve happy hour vibes with an educational chaser 2021-02-03T05:00:00Z In this digital era when so much of our identity is online, removing your own archive is not just self-censorship, it’s an act of self-effacement. Hongkongers face a Kafkaesque reality as censors outlaw the words of protest | Louisa Lim 2020-07-05T04:00:00Z Hear the generous self-effacement in Ellis’s decision to send Lavelle to her teammates to look at physical and psychic scars. Perspective | These are hard times. The best coaches know how to get through them. 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z Tonelli was a person of immense skill, patience, courage, idealism and self-effacement. Perspective | Annalena Tonelli, a health activist who fought TB in Africa, defied hardships and terrorism 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z Pompeo graduated first in his class at West Point decades ago, a feat that suggests enormous reserves of discipline, a profound respect for tradition and a talent for self-effacement when the circumstances warrant it. Opinion | How to Sell Your Soul to Donald Trump 2019-10-05T04:00:00Z Whatever Haney's intentions were—vindication, exoneration, self-effacement—the messages received, at best, a mixed reception. Hank Haney weighed in on a Korean named Lee winning the U.S. Women's Open. It didn't go perfectly - Golf Digest 2019-06-02T04:00:00Z According to Michael Wolff, the vice-president has practiced “extreme self-effacement”, avoiding meetings he or his handlers suspect he shouldn’t be in. 'Transfers of power': Jared Cohen on Accidental Presidents and Trump 2019-04-07T04:00:00Z “It’s a common misconception that humility involves self-effacement or hiding accomplishments,” explains Kathleen McGill, Seattle University’s Manager of Executive Education Outreach. Who you are matters when it comes to leadership | Provided by Seattle University Albers School of Business 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z Indeed, Ms. Stewart-Cousins is collaborative, sometimes to the point of self-effacement, which has earned her the fierce loyalty of her senators. She Stood Up to Cuomo. Soon She’ll Be the First Woman to Lead the N.Y. Senate. 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z Bush’s comportment worked against him as a presidential candidate, because his self-effacement was misconstrued as weakness. Excerpts from recent editorials in newspapers in Illinois 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z As an adult, he retains a talent for self-effacement. The Friendship That Made Google Huge 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z With typical self-effacement and Bondian charm, Moore described all his wives as “lovely ladies with bad taste in men.” Roger Moore dies at 89; debonair British actor played James Bond in 7 movies 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z Maybe so, but it’s interesting that Schutz, who is so self-effacing in her personal life, would choose self-effacement as a subject. Why Dana Schutz Painted Emmett Till 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z At the least you have to do a pantomime of altruism and self-effacement. Trump’s habit of making everything about himself 2017-02-06T05:00:00Z Diplomacy and self-effacement have not featured much since he turned up in Glasgow two months ago. Joey Barton: ‘If someone is looking for conflict I won’t shy away from it – ever’ | Donald McRae 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z Even some speechwriters see themselves this way — either out of an excess of self-effacement or a misunderstanding of their role. Five myths about political speechwriting 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z Her album-length strategy hasn’t changed: mix equal parts radio-ready bangers and melodramatic ballads, and season with inspirational platitudes and jocular self-effacement. Checking in with pop's B-list: Fifth Harmony, Ariana Grande, and Meghan Trainor 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z Then there is Curry, whose fundamental self-effacement despite doing stupendous things is the chief ingredient in their chemistry. The Golden State Warriors can’t be defined by numbers alone 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z A début album and festival performances soon followed—impressive feats that Alexander handled with amiable self-effacement. The Teenagers Shaping Pop 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z Learn to differentiate between confidence and hubris, humility and self-effacement and gratefulness and entitlement. How to Assess a Veteran Job Candidate 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z Observers might want self-effacement and vulnerability in their champions, especially their damaged ones. What To Make Of Tiger? 2015-08-03T04:00:00Z Murray, who describes himself as an introvert, says that studio lights terrify him—in keeping with a habit of self-effacement that another colleague described as “the nervous-guy shtick.” The Galaxy-Sized Video Game 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z It was a tic that I came to recognize: self-promotion driven by fear that one’s self-effacement might be taken too literally. Jonathan Ive and the Future of Apple 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z “That was Jackie Robinson’s number. She is a heroic figure. She carries herself with such self-effacement, such dignity.” Avi Weiss, the rabble-rouser rabbi, takes stock after an activist career 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z That's what LA is for - to celebrate the shiny surfaces of life, to be a counterpoint to the excessive self-effacement and reserve and sense of tradition of the British. Louis Theroux: Moving to Los Angeles 2014-03-21T01:09:48Z In a lonely sport of constant losing, the collective wisdom recognizes that self-effacement is for losers. The Sin (And Virtue) Of Swagger 2014-03-12T04:00:00Z China’s opening ceremony in 2008 in Beijing was far more indigenous, a staggering paean to communist-style mass regimentation, discipline and collective self-effacement. The TV Watch: Little Bit of ‘Fantasia’ as NBC Begins Olympic Show 2014-02-08T04:07:48Z To dull the pain, we administered heavy doses of sarcasm, self-effacement and "Upstairs, Downstairs." Why a Briton Chose to Be a U.S. Citizen 2014-01-04T01:02:44Z The Bank of Scotland was specific about wanting courtesy, patience and self-effacement and workers were warned that "cranks - artistic, scientific, religious or political - never succeed". The invention of the career ladder 2013-07-24T00:38:33Z When it came to self-effacement, Hoy has given the world a quote that marks him out as something different in the all-too-often self-obsessed world of professional sport. Hoy steps down after proving nice guys can finish first 2013-04-18T11:09:08Z Unfortunately, Holbrooke, that renowned figure of restraint and self-effacement, is no longer with us to say what he thought of Rice’s alleged gesture. Susan Rice’s cowardly critics 2012-11-20T19:39:00Z Understood: self-effacement; focus on the long run; motivate employees. A Bank CEO Thrives Far From Wall Street 2012-10-26T09:54:46Z This is why Butler followed his spasm of self-awareness with self-effacement. Bulls lose to Wolves in foul-filled affair 2012-10-14T03:48:00Z His gracious example was matched by Victoria Pendleton, twice denied a likely gold by pedantic applications of the rules; and by the self-effacement of countless others. London 2012 Games fortnight has been one of dreams and wonder 2012-08-11T18:42:00Z Outsiders might conclude that this tendency to self-effacement reflects the UK's diminished global status as a former imperial power. 12 things in 212 words that every 2012 visitor should know 2012-07-27T00:46:38Z He does not shy away from a single question or seek refuge in evasive self-effacement. 'Legends have come before me but this is my time' 2012-07-24T12:26:37Z He occupied his seat for nearly six months, in fact, and conducted himself with native dignity and becoming self-effacement as an unofficial member of the Assembly. Our First Half-Century: A Review of Queensland Progress Based Upon Official Information 2012-04-22T02:00:09.320Z My only sure weapons are—humility, that is, a real belief in my own weakness; and self-effacement, to the extent of letting those who are under me see, not me, but God, in my orders. Mater Christi Meditations on Our Lady 2012-02-25T03:00:09.890Z You would, doubtless, have had to listen to much that would have profoundly bored you; but is not sweet woman's mission self-effacement--the daily swallowing of a large dose of boredom? The Maid of Honour, Vol. 1 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-15T03:00:38.533Z He ascended once more to the summit, and there prostrated himself in utter self-renunciation and self-effacement. The Moral Instruction of Children 2012-02-02T03:04:33.057Z There flourished the genius for self-effacement and the invisible, inaudible provision of whatever might be needed, that made service a high art, a priesthood. What Will People Say? A novel 2011-12-17T03:00:18.490Z "Perhaps so; we're obliged to his taste for self-effacement if it is." A Woman Perfected 2011-12-02T03:00:24.420Z Everything in which they themselves are lacking—Talmudic learning, knowledge and culture, goodness, modesty, and self-effacement, the utmost piety and self-sacrifice—all this they demand of him. Simon Eichelkatz; The Patriarch Two Stories of Jewish Life 2011-09-15T02:00:12.970Z It was almost as if to-day we should demand of our daughters, so free, so mingled with the general movement, to return suddenly to the self-effacement and the thousand restraints of our own youth. Louis XIV and La Grande Mademoiselle 1652-1693 2011-09-14T02:00:48.383Z Together they worked out the problem of the proposed new company, and managed it with so much tact and self-effacement that Porter believed all their suggestions to have originated with himself. The Main Chance 2011-08-26T02:00:27.127Z His attitude towards his scientific triumphs was, when not that of entire self-effacement, always that of unaffected humility. Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume II (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings 2011-08-16T02:00:39.793Z She was not blind; neither was she patient and prone to self-effacement. Joan Thursday 2011-06-25T02:00:19.897Z When you’re a handsome former CEO with a pretty wife and a billionaire dad, self-effacement can help soften the schadenfreude. Jon Huntsman, Presidential Candidate: Enter the GOP Wild Card 2011-06-21T09:30:00Z Just then his glance happened to meet Helen's, and hers seemed to convey a repressed irony, which melted into that blankness of expression with its self-effacement that always puzzled him. The Old Blood 2011-06-13T02:00:22.897Z There are, of course, churlish natures which nothing could ever influence in the direction of true politeness, which always means self-effacement to a certain extent. A Word to Women 2011-06-08T02:00:18.457Z Besides, she had been trained in a healthy self-effacement. The Pastor's Wife 2011-06-02T02:00:23.873Z I have never encountered in a conductor of such world repute such a degree of self-effacement, conscientiousness, and artistic honesty. An Autobiography 2011-05-21T02:00:10.850Z Traces of an Ontario accent still creep into some of his vowels, and for all his fame, he has a Canadian’s habit of self-effacement. Focused on the Swing, Not the Score 2011-05-11T00:56:47Z Her little speech was delivered so simply and with such a noble air of self-effacement that it is small wonder that Charles Edward could but stand in speechless admiration before her. Petticoat Rule 2011-04-18T02:00:14.507Z He was not insensible to the utter self-effacement in the woman's desire to help and comfort. The Way of the Strong 2011-04-07T02:00:21.387Z I have no patience with those who preach civil and political self-effacement. The Negro and the elective franchise. A Series Of Papers And A Sermon (The American Negro Academy. Occasional Papers, No. 11.) 2011-03-03T03:00:50.323Z The self-effacement of Shelley has centred all our interest on his lost friend.36.He also supposed that the tower was Frankish, and built long before the Venetian conquest. Rambles and Studies in Greece 2011-02-18T03:00:16.480Z How did you arrive at this complete self-effacement? The Pocket Bible or Christian the Printer A Tale of the Sixteenth Century 2011-01-27T03:00:40.940Z There was no other woman in Cairo with whom she was at all well acquainted as yet, and none that gave promise of the paradoxical but necessary combination of self-effacement and presence of mind. Burning Sands 2011-01-17T03:00:53.930Z Delicacy of mind and body, diffidence and self-effacement, superficial and unscientific learning had been required of them, and it was not surprising that they had very rarely attained to anything stronger. A Short History of English Liberalism 2010-12-22T15:03:38.007Z His winning smile and giggling shrugs suggest self-effacement, but the appearance is deceiving. Indian Who Built Yoga Empire Starts Work on the Body Politic 2010-04-19T00:18:00Z In a hockey culture that encourages discipline and self-effacement, Ovechkin is a free spirit and even a bit of a showoff. Alexander Ovechkin, the Mad Russian 2010-04-09T17:00:00Z But he was gradually learning the most difficult lesson of cheerful self-effacement, and did not allow his own thoughts and feelings to spoil the cheeriness of the others. Dick's Desertion A Boy's Adventures in Canadian Forests And if principles were strong enough to sustain him to the onset, faith might fire him to the coronation of his self-effacement. Sinister Street, vol. 2 Only a woman absolutely capable of such self-effacement could understand the perfect bliss of it. An Engagement of Convenience A Novel There was a pause, and then as Happy explained, the seeming serenity of her manner was a supreme test of self-effacement which deserved an accolade for bravery. The Tempering "Deep, still, and luminous as the ether" ... was the impression made on Hearn by this embodiment of the Buddhist faith, with its peace profound and supreme self-effacement. Lafcadio Hearn With philosophic self-effacement Bindle covered the few feet between him and the door and vanished. Bindle Some Chapters in the Life of Joseph Bindle They had taught him what is best left undone, the grace of self-effacement, and they had given him some breath of the aroma which they themselves exhaled. A Transient Guest and Other Episodes Within her nature there was modesty and self-effacement, but also pride that could not brook a slight. The Shadow He preached self-effacement; pity towards one’s fellow men; and reverence towards the supernatural. An Outline of Russian Literature Seclusion and self-effacement have hardly been synonymous with my euphonious name! Geraldine Farrar The Story of an American Singer His leading maxims were blind resignation and self-effacement in the presence of the ills, suffering and death which rule the entire domain of life. Jewish Theology The apparent self-effacement effected by good-breeding, even in the wicked, is certainly more agreeable to an ordinary world than the unconscious egotism of a large class of the good. Anne The gospel which Dostoévsky consistently preached, from the beginning of his career to the end, was love, self-sacrifice even to self-effacement. Library of the World's Best literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 12 It is perhaps difficult for us nowadays to understand a spirit of self-effacement. Of Six Mediæval Women To Which Is Added A Note on Mediæval Gardens Then he has a sad, comfortable glow at his own self-effacement. The Crow's Nest She admired the peculiar beauty of Hallie; but the efforts of the latter to repress her feelings, to reach, as it were, the results of self-effacement, were not at all pleasing to the Boston girl. Free Joe and Other Georgian Sketches And it ends by giving for the meanest, the most unsufficing and half-hearted return, that utter self-surrender and self-effacement which it denied to God. The Hound of Heaven How shall any empire, any state, conscious of its destiny, imitate the self-effacement prescribed to the individual—"In honour preferring one another"? The Origins and Destiny of Imperial Britain Nineteenth Century Europe This self-effacement was not so much humility, though of course that too existed, as the special form which communal feeling took at that time. Of Six Mediæval Women To Which Is Added A Note on Mediæval Gardens And when the Contessa rose to sing, Bice followed her to the piano with an air as different as possible from the swift, noiseless self-effacement of her performance on previous occasions. Sir Tom The ethic formula commands self-effacement to a translator. Woman under socialism Here she encountered a face and form which were truly all womanly, if by womanliness is meant abject submission and self-effacement. A Manifest Destiny With strong emotion, we can look upon the physical manifestation of our glorious principles—that only through self-effacement—through fanatic love for the state—can the individual come to complete physical and mental fruition. The Clean and Wholesome Land Jesus did not demand self-effacement and the suppression of ability. The Social Principles of Jesus For hospitality, for good management, for beautiful cooperation and self-effacement, the Kentucky women set a standard that will long be remembered and will be very hard to equal in the future. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume V But there are times and occasions when resignation in its self-effacement resembles suicide. The Paliser case He was not sure of the latter’s capacity for the tireless patience and long self-effacement necessary for such an adventure as this. The House in the Water A Book of Animal Stories He had stepped back a pace, out of reach of those detaining fingers, and fastened the offender with a stare of such baleful resentment that the latter drew off in pitiful haste for self-effacement. Once to Every Man She remembered his gentleness, his kindly thought for her, his self-effacement where her personal comforts were in question, his devotion both to herself and her children. The Twins of Suffering Creek He had had five years’ experience of self-effacement which stood him in good stead now. The Spoilers of the Valley He wondered, with a fresh burst of self-effacement, what people would say about it. Rope So long as the breath of life is in me, Manikawan, I shall never forget your example of patience and encouragement and self-effacement. The Gaunt Gray Wolf A Tale of Adventure With Ungava Bob Here’s happiness to you in your empty life of self-effacement, with your machine prompted acts, years considered!” A Breath of Prairie and other stories And though, beside these qualities of hers, his diffidence compelled him to self-effacement, he yet seemed to draw something from her very superabundance. Cleo The Magnificent Or, the Muse of the Real With her usual self-effacement, she made a brave attempt to put aside her grief. Treasure Valley Polite self-effacement impossible when one is at the mercy of a mere machine. Mr. Punch Awheel The Humours of Motoring and Cycling And a black gloom of anger, and a tenderness of self-effacement, fought in his heart. The Rainbow She had learnt the art of self-effacement to the point of showing no trace of being there at all. The Limit His lonely life, the need for secrecy, his plan of self-effacement, prevented that. Cleek, the Master Detective In Christianity, on the other hand, self-realization and not self-effacement must be the consummation of life. India, Its Life and Thought Their twofold consciousness had all the pathos of self-effacement, and all the thrill of satisfied egoism. Robert Orange Being a Continuation of the History of Robert Orange There is no valid reason to endorse the view of some historians that these acts of self-effacement were inspired by an indolent distaste for the cares of kingship. A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era And he quietly inculcated a lesson in self-effacement too, for albeit he had begun the violin very long before our time, he invariably took second fiddle. Cardinal Newman as a Musician She hovered over him as his mother may have done when he was in his cradle, while the cheerful self-effacement in which slavery had trained her lent a pathetic charm to her manner. Virginia Again, as to the method of redemption, the Yoga philosophy advocates renunciation, self-effacement, and all the forms of asceticism. India, Its Life and Thought Such was his feeling now toward Pens�e, although he was conscious of a certain curiosity with regard to her motive in taking Brigit's part with such magnificent self-effacement. Robert Orange Being a Continuation of the History of Robert Orange Alike, the wise self-effacement and the admirable frugality which distinguished the Hojo rule were wholly foreign to the mood of Yoshimitsu. A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era He met her gaze meekly, with that ready self-effacement which husbands seem to feel in the presence of maternity. The Wizard's Daughter and Other Stories Owing to her consummate genius for self-effacement, Brodrick remained peculiarly unaware. The Creators A Comedy And is not the Cross, which is the emblem of self-renunciation and self-effacement, the motive power of our faith, as it is also the embodied ideal of our Life? India, Its Life and Thought But Casey Dunne was already tired of Glass, of his timidity, his indecision, his self-effacement, his continual air of apology for existence. Desert Conquest or, Precious Waters The old Braithwaite had been a slight-built, gentle creature, loyal to the point of self-effacement, soft-spoken and dependent on the appreciation of a master for his happiness. The Kingdom Round the Corner A Novel In the early days of the movement the would-be medium was advised to be 'passive,' and passivity was often construed into self-effacement. Genuine Mediumship or The Invisible Powers It had the air of cultivating assiduously the art of self-effacement, for its face, when looked at, achieved an expression of inimitable remoteness. The Creators A Comedy The Cross of self-effacement is the pathway of Christ and of the Christian to the crown of self-realization. India, Its Life and Thought Aunt Emmy looked romantic, and the contrast between her refined, gentle self-effacement and the commonplace egotism of her two men was of the glaring nature which appeals to a young girl's imagination. The Lowest Rung Together with The Hand on the Latch, St. Luke's Summer and The Understudy For five years he had been nothing and had been glad to be nothing, that the cause which he believed to be righteous might triumph by his self-effacement. The Kingdom Round the Corner A Novel The voice was cold, the words at once a self-effacement and a rebuke. The Justice of the King The passage, then, which seems to suggest a doctrine of self-display, is really a teaching of self-effacement. Mornings in the College Chapel Short Addresses to Young Men on Personal Religion Find then in Us a glorious self-effacement, in order to find yourselves again in us.' Mystics and Saints of Islam I often think that three-fourths of every faculty in the country would disappear some morning by a simultaneous act of self-effacement. The Preacher and His Models The Yale Lectures on Preaching 1891 He had loved the ranks for their quiet self-effacement and had preferred to be reckoned in their number. The Kingdom Round the Corner A Novel She perceived that not self-effacement, but self-development, not dissolution, but evolution, was the service required of her. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance There was something lacking in the Irishwoman’s mental outfit, namely, the capacity even to conceive that ideal of impersonal self-effacement, which, as Paul said truthfully, is the everywhere accepted standard for servants. The Squirrel-Cage It insists upon abjection, self-effacement, a surrender of individuality on the part of every woman. The Mormon Menace The Confessions of John Doyle Lee, Danite The Moated Grange, now ruinous and drear, He roamed, constrained to bitter self-effacement, Until one midnight his enraptured ear Detected mortal accents in the basement. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, April 8, 1914 But Constantine showed little inclination to perform this noble act of self-effacement. Greece and the Allies 1914-1922 And the natural corollary of this is the complete self-effacement of the Saint. On Prayer and The Contemplative Life On the contrary he was conscientious, retiring to a point of absolute self-effacement, and able to forget himself only in his one great passion: music. The Genius It became a thought with which she lived, with which she slept, until it carried her to more and more absurd lengths of self-effacement and ate out the heart of her independence. The Tyranny of Weakness The Dictator did not quite see that following one's husband to the wars in man's clothes was exactly an act of complete self-effacement on the part of a woman. The Dictator They do not realize how they weaken themselves by this mental attitude of self-depreciation or self-effacement. Pushing to the Front Mina enjoyed her uncle's frown and chafed at Bob's self-effacement; he had been talking to Janie when Harry calmly took her away. Tristram of Blent An Episode in the Story of an Ancient House In other circumstances, however, they do not practise self-effacement, but the very reverse. The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told And then, with a readiness for self-effacement that was surely less British than the language in which it found expression, "Would you care to take the ribbons, Count?" he asked. The Lady Paramount For all his regard for his partner he could not allow Nan her absurd self-effacement without protest. The Forfeit His instinct gives the highest honours to an ethic of self-effacement; he is prompted to embrace it by everything: his prudence, his experience, his vanity. The Antichrist His tenacity of faith, his high integrity, his self-effacement, his industry and painstaking labours were traits of a character the noble qualities of which will live and live forever after him. Unfolding Destiny The case of the chameleon is peculiarly interesting because the animal has two kinds of tactics—self-effacement on the one hand and bluffing on the other. The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told Viewed in the light of their second station ... they manifest absolute servitude, utter destitution, and complete self-effacement. Statement on Bahá’u’lláh Strive thou with heart and soul, in prayerful humility and self-effacement, to uphold the Law of God and spread His sweet savours abroad. Selections from the Writings of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá Every sort of faith is in itself an evidence of self-effacement, of self-estrangement.... The Antichrist His tenacity of faith, his high integrity, his self-effacement, his industry and painstaking labors were traits of a character the noble qualities of which will live and live forever after him. Bahá’í Administration As these fishes are very palatable and are much sought after by such enemies as cormorants and otters, it is highly probably that their power of self-effacement often saves their life. The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told Perhaps if their little son had lived she might in turn have obeyed the world-old instinct of self-effacement—but now! The Fruit of the Tree It was the brightest thing that she had to look forward to, and she looked forward to it with complete self-effacement. Franklin Kane Deportation, colonization, and a voluntary political self-effacement have all been advocated. Twentieth Century Negro Literature Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro These historic labors, pursued single-handed and in circumstances of financial stringency and ill-health, have been characterized throughout by a spirit of fidelity, of self-effacement, of thoroughness and vigor that none has excelled. Bahá’í Administration Here we see the first hint of that ineffable conversational modesty, that shy social self-effacement, which has ever hidden his light under a bushel. Gilbert Keith Chesterton For some time he remained almost rigidly still, as if he would make amends for the slight noise of his entrance by subsequent self-effacement. The Mayor of Warwick The Osmanli responded with a deprecating gesture of self-effacement. The Lighted Match She had produced the effect of shrinking from observation under some subtle shadow of self-effacement. The Butterfly House As when the God whom Pheidias moulds, Clothed in marmoreal calm divine, Veils all that strength ’neath beauty’s line, All energy in repose enfolds;— So He, in self-effacement great, Magnanimous to endure and wait. The Visions of England Lyrics on leading men and events in English History And I fell to thinking how even Nina, miracle of diligence and self-effacement, remembered a new pink frock across the abyss of the years. Gilbert Keith Chesterton In this, by some strange irony, Majendie, for all his self-effacement, proved more effectual than Anne. The Helpmate It is by setting the example of self-sacrifice; it is by complete self-effacement in any undertaking, that opposition is disarmed and true love of progress is proved. International Conference Held at Washington for the Purpose of Fixing a Prime Meridian and a Universal Day. October, 1884. Protocols of the Proceedings By her self-effacement, indeed, she increased fivefold the influence and power of that nation. The Schemes of the Kaiser That is why the wild is so guarded, and why self-effacement becomes almost a religion therein. The Way of the Wild This is the realm of full awareness, of utter self-effacement. The Seven Valleys and the Four Valleys Viewed in the light of their second station—the station of distinction, differentiation, temporal limitations, characteristics and standards—they manifest absolute servitude, utter destitution, and complete self-effacement. Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh Humility, self-effacement, obedience, hiddenness, unfaltering charity, with all the self-control and constant effort that they imply, are written on every page of the history of this little Saint. The Story of a Soul (L'Histoire d'une Âme): The Autobiography of St. Thérèse of Lisieux With Additional Writings and Sayings of St. Thérèse His action, in all that concerns Esperanto, has been characterized throughout by a generosity and self-effacement that well correspond to the humanitarian nature of the inspiration that produced it. International Language Past, Present and Future: With Specimens of Esperanto and Grammar His chosen occupations during these years of self-effacement were religious rather than political; his dearest comrades were clerks rather than barons. The History of England From the Accession of Henry III. to the Death of Edward III. (1216-1377) But these men take it very philosophically and with a great deal of self-effacement. Charred Wood Such tendencies are counterbalanced by the strength and prevalence of ideas based on renunciation and self-effacement. Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 2 But his colleagues declared that he could not be spared from the Cabinet, and, true to his fine habit of self-effacement, he ceased to press his claim. Prime Ministers and Some Others A Book of Reminiscences Poor Miss Paton's noble husband was the only Englishman, that I know of, who committed that act of self-effacement. Records of a Girlhood His self-effacement strengthened the position of the legate. The History of England From the Accession of Henry III. to the Death of Edward III. (1216-1377) Much patience and self-effacement were needed for successful married sleep. The Enchanted April He was a child early destined to sacrifice and self-effacement, and as he grew older and other youngsters came to fill Cassie's cabin, he took up his lot with the meekness of an infantile Moses. The Strength of Gideon and Other Stories Truly pitiful has become the position of these assimilators, who but yesterday were the champions of national self-effacement. History of the Jews in Russia and Poland. Volume II From the death of Alexander I. until the death of Alexander III. (1825-1894) It justifies labor, ambition, and at times even self-effacement. Woman in Modern Society They admitted that his brother's ranch was their next stopping-place, and Leander went through perfect contortions of apology and self-effacement before he could bring himself to ask them to do him a favor. Judith of the Plains Other moods came to Wagner, but never again that mood of rapturous self-effacement. Old Scores and New Readings Discussions on Music & Certain Musicians The best minds were occupied with the leisurely elaboration and discussion of speculative ideas and self-effacement was both practised and preached. Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1 While a passionate Jew at heart, he championed the cause of Russification, though not in the extreme form of spiritual self-effacement. History of the Jews in Russia and Poland. Volume II From the death of Alexander I. until the death of Alexander III. (1825-1894) They heard very little of the capacity for heroism, the eagerness for sacrifice, the gallant self-effacement which having honor for a companion taught. Out To Win The Story of America in France He began to minimize the advantages of the proposed relationship, and to ponder the ways in which it would compel a certain self-effacement. A Hoosier Chronicle A private secretary, for illustration, might be thoroughly competent for managerial duties; but by his self-effacement in his present job he might make the false impression that he was wanting in executive capacity. Certain Success All alike are wanting in one grace which Fifine possesses: that of self-effacement. A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.) Today at least, no friend of Oldendorf has any occasion to praise your chivalrous sentiments or your self-effacement. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12 The genesis of this passage should be told, for it had importance in the history of the Convention; and also it conveys an idea of the limits to which Redmond carried self-effacement. John Redmond's Last Years Simplicity is like it, in that it also has a quality of self-effacement, but it really means a love of the essential and of directness. Etiquette Across the infinite wastes of time and through all the mists of legend we still feel the presence in Alfred of this strange and unconscious self-effacement. Varied Types A sunny autumn morning is exercising its genial influence, and the courage of self-effacement awakens in her. A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.) By a natural flight of ideas, the loathing of the city turned to loathing of himself—to an unsatiable desire for self-forgetfulness, for self-effacement. Max She was taken with a sharp spasm of laughter, mirthless, but consciously expressive of all the familiar processes of self-effacement under torture. At a Winter's Fire Afterward Amory told him what had happened and what had made him abide in patience and such wondrous self-effacement. Romance Island Browning, like every one else, when awakened to the beauty and variety of men, dreamed of this arrogant self-effacement. Robert Browning The new delight of self-effacement was one of the keenest she had known. The Conqueror This greatness appears in superlative degree in the self-effacement of him who possessed these powers. The Life of Jesus of Nazareth This great law of self-effacement, poverty, suffering, death, is symbolized in the mystic cross so dear to you and dear to me. A Short History of Monks and Monasteries He had proposed to her arrayed in a blue flannel nightingale, and Priscilla felt that headlong self-effacement could go no further. The Princess Priscilla's Fortnight The children were even told to mind her when she asked them to do some service for her, although this she did but seldom, the habit of self-effacement being too strong. Hillsboro People The SHAH's account, regarded as a record of a historical event, is manifestly hampered by that modest and insatiable desire for self-effacement which marks this eminent man. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, January 17, 1891 Miss Evelina meditated calling her back, but the long years of self-effacement and inactivity had left her inert, with capacity only for suffering. A Spinner in the Sun Still, with what may seem unexpected self-effacement, they did not press strongly for the choice of a Massachusetts man as Commander-in-Chief. George Washington They had been so eager to accept his help; he had given it with such tact and self-effacement; and now, meanly, they must help Eugénie to dismiss him! Fenwick's Career Of course he tried to explain to Margery that it was an absolute accident and he only wanted to get a sighting post; but that was mere self-effacement, and I said so. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, August 1, 1917. But everyone applauds the patriotic self-effacement of Sir William Robertson in silently accepting the Eastern Command at home. Mr. Punch's History of the Great War Mildred had forgotten that he was there—not a difficult matter, when he had in its perfection the secretarial manner of complete self-effacement. The Price She Paid Ann Eliza's ardour carried her to new heights of self-effacement, and she invented late duties in the shop in order to leave Evelina and her suitor longer alone in the back room. Bunner Sisters The Marquise de Chantelle, as Darrow soon perceived, had the same mild formidableness as the late Mr. Leath: a sort of insistent self-effacement before which every one about her gave way. The Reef Indeed, it began to be felt that the self-effacement of the returned pressmen was being carried to a pedantic length. Beasts and Super-Beasts The old instinct of deference and humility was there; the habit of decent self-effacement and knowledge of her "own place." The American In preaching science to her, he had over-estimated his powers of self-effacement. Roderick Hudson They are marked too by the anxious timidity characteristic of the receiver of charity, who has suffered many humiliations, and, conscious that he is barely tolerated, has acquired the habit of self-effacement. The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann Volume I While he had pictured her as shrinking away from him in a tremor of self-effacement she had watched his movements, made sure of her opportunity, and come straight down to "have it out" with him. The Reef She saw the eternal Tao flowing like a great green river of souls, smooth and mighty and resistless; and she willed that she too might become a part of that desirable self-effacement, safe in surrender. Java Head Anyhow he betrayed a warmth that made my small bosom a Gehenna, until she laughed and snubbed him into due propriety and shamefaced self-effacement. Peter Ibbetson And her intellect relentlessly pointed out to her that her only aid would come from her self-effacement, her standing one side. The Gray Dawn But the quality that more than any other impressed me in Sir Charles Dilke as I knew him was his self-effacement. The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Volume 2 So much the more beautiful was his self-effacement when with Paul, for it was the latter who was 'the chief speaker.' Expositions of Holy Scripture: the Acts You seem to think," she continued, "that woman's supreme happiness is to be gained by self-effacement. Daybreak; a Romance of an Old World He measured the rare magnanimity of self-effacement so deliberate, he felt how few women were capable of exchanging a luxurious woe for a thankless effort. Madame De Mauves He survives in the noble self-effacement of the men. The Glory of the Trenches There is no part of his work which brings out more the quality of "self-effacement" to which Mr. Sidney Webb alludes. The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Volume 2 And Mortimer, peeping down at them over the thicket above, yawned impatiently and glanced about him for the most convenient avenue of self-effacement when the time arrived. The Fighting Chance It was a singular letter for a man of thirty-seven to write—singular in its self-effacement before the rising generation, singular, too, in the intensity of its forecast. The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Volume 1 In the closest relation to the thyroid appear the instincts first isolated, so to speak, by McDougall as the instincts of self-display and self-effacement, accompanied by emotions of pride and shame respectively. The Glands Regulating Personality It would never do, she thought, for her to gain a reputation for self-effacement and sweetness of disposition at her time of life. Old Lady Number 31 All apparently were inspired by a fine spirit of self-effacement. The Constitution of the United States A Brief Study of the Genesis, Formulation and Political Philosophy of the Constitution We had such thorough lessons in generosity that they sometimes took effect in a genuine self-effacement, like this. Memories of Hawthorne There are many instances in his early career of this habit of self-effacement, and the habit increased with years. The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Volume 1 All the same, in spite of these adventitious aids to self-effacement, the predestined end of the seafaring man sooner or later overtook him. The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore During those times the children never spoke except in whispers, their rigid Indian-English training in self-effacement and obedience being now of untold value. The Moccasin Maker Ah, but the joy of life is not only the joy of self-assertion: there is the joy of self-effacement, which is only another form of self-expression, the assertion of a higher self. Without Prejudice The one type begets aggressive self-assertion, the other type begets a certain gentle spirit of self-effacement. Philistia Hideyoshi probably thought it impolitic to push matters further: the priests kept quiet, and ceased to preach publicly; and their self-effacement served them well until 1591. Japan: an Attempt at Interpretation His dulled realization of what Yale had been to him was quickened by this tormenting comrade of the brave days of old, but he could not be shaken from his attitude of morbid self-effacement. Short Stories for English Courses That accounted, no doubt, for the meek self-effacement of the Turks who had come with him. The Eye of Zeitoon As an automaton, a mere cog in a vast machine, he had won the praise of his superiors by his complete self-effacement. Love, the Fiddler Had she been a butler of the first magnitude she could not so have discouraged the idea of acquaintance; her attraction, if anything, was a combination of her self-effacement and her ugliness. Paste Jewels He felt ashamed of himself for this abandonment to sentiment, but he seemed to have lost control over the emotional part of his mind, which continued to luxuriate in the consciousness of his own self-effacement. Watersprings Perhaps this further self-effacement where her lover was concerned urgently moved her to stand no trifling in respect of others. Sparrows: the story of an unprotected girl This criminal self-effacement of England is at the root of the peril of the British Empire during this war. The Red Planet Innately a gentleman, he bore himself with dignity in this new position, with a fine simplicity and self-effacement that was not lost on some of his friends. Love, the Fiddler This generous, dignified statement, modest to the point of self-effacement, instantly hushed all discontent and, before it, even the newspaper editors stood abashed. On the Trail of Grant and Lee M�rim�e's superb self-effacement, his impersonality, is itself but an effective personal trait, and, transferred to art, becomes a markedly peculiar quality of literary beauty. Miscellaneous Studies; a series of essays In this case, indeed, the work is not wholly one of self-effacement, for the accomplished translator has prefaced Amiel's Journal by an able and interesting essay of seventy pages on Amiel's life and intellectual position. Essays from 'The Guardian' A man as handsome as Harding, as vain of his literary style as he is, has an ego that is not capable of total self-effacement. The Mirrors of Washington "Just happened to think of it," said Mr. Cassidy, with a coy gesture of self-effacement. Indiscretions of Archie His half-brother moved softly about the house now in a sort of self-effacement, never daring to intrude upon Sir Oliver's abstractions. The Sea-Hawk But the quality Rashi possessed in the highest degree was simplicity, modesty, one may almost say, humility; and what contributed not a little to the even tenor of his existence was his capacity for self-effacement. Rashi "Don't credit me with too much self-effacement!" he grinned. The Hermit of Far End House had gone to Cornell to be with his friend, an early indication of a capacity for self-effacement, for attachment to the nearest great man at hand who could take him behind the scenes. The Mirrors of Washington But this idea of military self-effacement was not happily worded, and the enemies of Davis seized on his phraseology as further evidence of his instinctive autocracy. The Day of the Confederacy; a chronicle of the embattled South And, with her faculty for self-effacement, he knew she would not be unhappy. The Patrician With eagerness she embraced the thought of self-effacement. Fraternity Humiliated by being brought home a prisoner, and grieving for the forsaken grave in Greyfriars, Bobby crept away to a corner bench, on which Auld Jock had always sat in humble self-effacement. Greyfriars Bobby Monsieur le Comte," said Anselme, in tones of abject self-effacement, "I had never dared intrude had the matter been of less urgency. Saint Martin's Summer The rare tact which enabled her to do this lay largely in a certain self-effacement and the peculiar harmony of a nature which presented few salient points. The Women of the French Salons Even on the verge of tears as she was, she could not forbear smiling a little at this proclamation of complete self-effacement. Shavings Charm of personal manner, power of will, anthropological interest, self-effacement in view of some great objects—all these qualities have made travel-books live. Travels through France and Italy Emma Goldman, too, had to walk the sorrowful road of married life; she, too, had to learn from bitter experience that legal statutes signify dependence and self-effacement, especially for the woman. Anarchism and Other Essays Most of us have known parties or expeditions full of this seething fuss of self-effacement. What's Wrong with the World Some think that Boswell, in his Life of Johnson, did not sufficiently realize his duty of self-effacement. Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood |
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