self-effacement
Example Sentences
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The clean installation helps the viewer to “get” Samaras—his off-kilter intensity and odd self-effacement, in spite of all the focus on his own likeness.
“Acting felt like the thing I could fake, because everybody else was so good at everything,” she said with typical self-effacement.
From New York Times
Modesty, wit, self-effacement: They shape every line of his work.
From Washington Post
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.
From New York Times
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.”
From Washington Post
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