| He spoke sincerely, directly, self-effacingly about the nation's problems and infected the country with his constant optimism. |
| John is difficult to distinguish sometimes because he carries himself so self-effacingly. |
| Although she wrote self-effacingly that she remembered nothing, she always remembered great food. |
| Mr. Fresco, an elfin 93-year-old, sat beside his partner, Roxanne Meadows, smiling self-effacingly. |
| Hawks's films seem almost self-effacingly modest in their self-reliant, open-air connection with the world. |
| Matt is self-effacingly modest in his description of Pappy's Edinburgh success story. |
