| He's also willing to wax self-effacingly in interview, particularly when asked about his songwriting process. |
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| He spoke sincerely, directly, self-effacingly about the nation's problems and infected the country with his constant optimism. |
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| Although she wrote self-effacingly that she remembered nothing, she always remembered great food. |
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| Mr. Fresco, an elfin 93-year-old, sat beside his partner, Roxanne Meadows, smiling self-effacingly. |
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| Hawks's films seem almost self-effacingly modest in their self-reliant, open-air connection with the world. |
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| Christie Finn began self-effacingly, but quickly surrendered to the music's florid impulses. |
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| Mr. Bolcom's accompaniment was self-effacingly elegant throughout. |
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| John is difficult to distinguish sometimes because he carries himself so self-effacingly. |
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| Gordon Brown, as he has self-effacingly pointed out, is not God's gift to television or to campaigning. |
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| Matt is self-effacingly modest in his description of Pappy's Edinburgh success story. |
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| Yet, self-effacingly they regarded themselves as over-the-hill performers only holding appeal for older viewers. |
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| He speaks at great length, does not snap at uncomfortable questions and explains his point of view gently and self-effacingly to even the junior-most of reporters. |
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| Donohoe was self-effacingly magisterial in this marathon, displaying absolute commitment to this music which he admits he'd avoided until five years ago. |
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