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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This self-effacing, self-defeating approach is typical of neoconservative foreign policy regardless of whether it is practiced by Democrats or Republicans and it is avowedly anti-self because it presumes self-interest is evil.
Business journalists have taken to producing glowing profiles of self-effacing and self-denying bosses such as Haruka Nishimatsu, the boss of Japan Airlines, who travels to work on the bus and pays himself less than his pilots, and Mike Eskew, the former boss of UPS, who flew coach and shares an administrative assistant with three other people.
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.
Self-effacing to the last, he had his ashes scattered off England's coast at Eastbourne the scene of happy holidays with the Marxes.
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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.
Plummer, while himself not strictly a product of Old Hollywood his breakout film was The Sound of Music learned its lessons of self-effacing maturity well.
"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.
Calculatedly self-promoting in his self-effacing trickery, von Trier again makes a work of an audacity this time, not as tragedy but as farce that belongs more to advertising than to cinema.
On the surface, the diminutive, self-effacing Chuan may not seem to be the kind of inspiring figure who could lead the country out of its worst economic crisis in decades.
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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"Rabbit Hole" is a complete about-face, a modest, restrained, introspective piece, so self-effacing you wonder if it might be the work of some other John Cameron Mitchell -- his boring, straight father, perhaps?
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