Even the notoriously self-effacing Netherlanders admit that Dutch food is nothing to write home about.
Not shy about his bridge skills, Buffett is very self-effacing about his poker prowess.
Both men gave funny, self-effacing answers in the last question about the women in their lives.
At other times, they must be soft, self-effacing, collaborative, process oriented, persuasive, unassuming, and indirect (feminine).
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When the self-effacing Lewis visits New York, he won't even have an office in the BofA tower.
Fischer is an example of an artist who was self-effacing, but bold in the cause of music.
Ever loyal and self-effacing, Folz was the perfect foil to the larger-than-life Calvet.
The assumption that women should be altruistic and self-effacing pervades both mainstream society and some precincts of the feminist movement.
Ever self-effacing, he was not one of the stars of Nuremberg, nor of the legal pantheon in his own country.
Mr Rubio manages to recount all this in an appealingly self-effacing manner, as if he played little part in his own success.
But he also made some sort of self-effacing jokes about the demonstrations.
Soft-spoken and self-effacing away from the stands, Ricken turns into the frantic conductor of Dortmund's mad orchestra for 90 minutes at a time.
They do take pride in the little things they do, even though, in a broader sense, Virgos can be rather self-effacing and self-critical.
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"They looked a little too young to be giving me their phone numbers, " the self-effacing golfer reportedly told a Florida newspaper at the time.
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The bearded, self-effacing Ramone was among the most famous and welcome faces within the business, yet he could walk down virtually any street unnoticed.
With these two productions, each distinct from the other though connected by impeccable craftsmanship, Mr. Fukunaga has arrived as a self-effacing master of his medium.
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To call all Timothy and Richard Smucker self-effacing is profound understatement.
Everyone was amazed when the self-effacing college economics lecturer was chosen by the newly elected President Mitterrand in 1981 to succeed him as head of the Socialist Party.
We read it unconsciously as timid, downcast, subservient, or self-effacing.
Before anything else, Greenberg, a self-effacing, amiable schmoozer, has had to fix Oak Brook's formerly ugly franchisee relations, which had fallen into disrepair under predecessors Edward Rensi and Michael Quinlan.
Leaders of the U.S. arm of the organization, known for its flock of self-effacing employees and volunteers, fret that the Salvation Army no longer is top of mind on Main Street.
For instance, she talks about women being too self-effacing, or moderating our career ambitions years before we have children, not because we want to, but because we believe we must.
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Mr. Hanson, who seemed self-effacing and available in a way that those who make their living exploring the nooks and crannies of nature often are, attributed the fuss less to him than to his subject matter.
Virgos are often self-effacing and shy.
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In a lifetime of teaching and leading priests in Latin America, which has the largest share of the world's Catholics, the former Bergoglio has shown a keen political sensibility as well as a self-effacing humility, according to his official biographer, Sergio Rubin.
It is doubtful that Mr Berlusconi has the tact and restraint to play so self-effacing a role, which could be sorely required if bitter controversies emerge at the two biggest European summits where Mr Berlusconi will have to chair the meetings himself.
Mr Kotter, an expert on leadership at Harvard Business School, based his book almost exclusively on the late Konosuke Matsushita, a self-effacing entrepreneur who, with no education, no money and no apparent connections, somehow managed to build the world's biggest electronics firm from nothing, beginning in the 1920s.
Mild-mannered and self-effacing, Mr. Liodice transformed the annual conference from a cocktail-and-golf boondoggle cliche into a marketing TED-like event, with an inspiring and energetically relevant agenda, where the focus is on learning and useful dialogue (laced with networking, entertainment, and of course, a bit of cocktails and golf).
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In a lifetime of teaching and leading priests in Latin America, which has the largest share of the world's Catholics, Bergoglio has also shown a keen political sensibility as well as the kind of self-effacing humility that fellow cardinals value highly, according to his official biographer, Sergio Rubin.
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