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How to use self-effacement in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word self-effacement? Here are some examples.

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In Lasallian terms, self-effacement and commitment are moulded into one characteristic expression, zeal.
It is a quest to do with self-effacement in the resurgence of the image of me.
We discovered a two-fold perspective for him: on the one hand the self-effacement of the teacher with regard to his students.
This type of action is often seen as expressing an artist's desire for self-effacement.
This will require patience and self-effacement from a man accustomed to dominating the economic-policy discussion.
But to do so takes self-control, self-effacement and self-denial, virtues that seem to be out of style these days.
So, despite their apparent self-effacement, women played a major role in restoring peace in traditional society.
After several years of relative self-effacement, Russia is now going after new markets.
The teacher's self-effacement and commitment are like the two sides of the same coin, his fundamental attitude toward his relations in education.
There is, in this concern for self-effacement where the polyphony of being is affirmed, a contemporary life finding its justification.
It is no wonder he could not find the balance between self-effacement and self-promotion.
The confessional is in, self-effacement optional.
Unless it's self-effacement you're expecting.
Thus the discretion and self-effacement of our confrere not only did not hinder the efficacy of his apostolate, but rather favoured it, which is absolutely gospel-like.
We will attempt to group several attitudes that can figure in this dynamic into four pairs, while expressing that two-fold meaning at the same time: commitment to the student and self-effacement of the teacher.
John likes to remain unnoticed and does so naturally through the self-effacement found in his personality.
You achieve your identity through self-effacement.
Yet paradoxically, Huston being Huston, its most personal quality is the director's self-effacement, its impersonality.
Native Americans seem to have always placed great value on silence and direct experience, and in indigenous cultures in general, silence denotes respect and self-effacement.
Examples from Classical Literature
He wondered, with a fresh burst of self-effacement, what people would say about it.
Seclusion and self-effacement have hardly been synonymous with my euphonious name!
And, with her faculty for self-effacement, he knew she would not be unhappy.
She had learnt the art of self-effacement to the point of showing no trace of being there at all.
Did it dimly occur to him that the principle of this reserve was self-control and not self-effacement?
Altogether, his demands upon her were reasonable to the point of self-effacement.
Her attitude toward him was perpetually one of self-effacement.
Perhaps he had carried his principle of self-effacement too far.
At half-past ten Tibby, with rare self-effacement, fell asleep, and Margaret was able to drive her aunt to the station.
The Osmanli responded with a deprecating gesture of self-effacement.
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