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The culture at the Times was so self-effacing, I mean publicly self-effacing.
He's the self-effacing, unassuming — and fearsomely gifted — M. Corot.
Some of this invisibility is due to Rosen's self-effacing personality.
I think I tend towards self-effacing… [Laughs] I don't know.
He's reasonable, self-effacing, and makes appeals to a common humanity.
At the same time, he can be disarming and self-effacing.
G.O.A.T guitarist Slash followed up with a more self-effacing take.
She was self-effacing on the eve of her husband's inauguration.
That may be a reflection of Mr. Harcey's self-effacing personality.
A glance at employees' business cards highlights this self-effacing culture.
That's the woman who concerns Meyer's self-effacing Afrikaans cop, Capt.
Judge Kavanaugh, on the other hand, "was self-effacing," he said.
And as a fellow shy Brit, I recognized the self-effacing urge.
He's self-effacing and aware that maybe America would have preferred Peter.
Donald Trump has NEVER been self-effacing ... which makes this clip shocking.
Mr. Buffett dispensed wise advice and spoke with occasional self-effacing charm.
And they're in effect effacing the Statue of Liberty to do it.
Alexander Hamilton was many things, but self-effacing was not one of them.
Most would have been more critical, and more self-effacing than Mr Penn.
Canadians, like all self-effacing secret egomaniacs, would, if so charged, profess shock.
Mr. Powers was self-effacing and carefully rationed his responses to reporters' questions.
We're a humble, self-effacing company that's just trying to do good work.
American critics, too, warmed to the self-effacing beauties of Mr. Demus's artistry.
O'Rourke is self-effacing, low-key guy, who comes across as fundamentally decent.
Known for a self-effacing style, Mr. Coats was popular among his colleagues.
As the Oval Office overflows with ego, she has seemed strikingly self-effacing.
But unlike others in his cohort, he speaks in strikingly self-effacing terms.
Different times produce different leaders; Americans have lost confidence in self-effacing patricians.
A sweet, self-effacing, highly talented constructor, Maura Jacobson was a national treasure.
She plays ego-boosting, self-effacing geisha to Mr. Epstein's philandering, mentally unstable Gerry.
DALLAS — He was hurting, self-effacing and, as he put it, a little fried.
The self-effacing Mr. Keillor refused to allow the conversation to be about himself.
You'd have to be self-effacing and yet forceful enough to pursue significant leads.
He can be more self-effacing and thoughtful than his public persona would suggest.
It struck all the right notes, right down to the self-effacing frappuccino bit.
In a 2004 interview with the IEEE History Center, he was similarly self-effacing.
Anne Kauffman directs a cast led by a savvily self-effacing David Hyde Pierce.
My own dating profile lists my occupation as "grad student" in self-effacing lowercase.
It came in four self-effacing parts, beginning by thanking everyone for the feedback.
Show that you're humble through a joke, a self-effacing story or a humorous anecdote.
Swing Time revolves around a nameless, self-effacing, shadowy young woman, who narrates the book.
But the lasting impression for me was the self-effacing brilliance of Ms. Harvey's singing.
Even with his accomplishments, Cicerone retained a self-effacing quality and playful sense of fun.
But he spoke with his typical mixture of spiritual wisdom and dark, self-effacing wit.
Mr. Suschitzky was self-effacing in interviews, casting himself as a mere observer of others.
His cool, understated style, buttressed by a self-effacing, wry humor, make him extremely likeable.
At times, Mr. Marley is too self-effacing, just singing choruses while his guests rap.
Not just that — he was funny, self-effacing, a good student and a good guy.
That's our saving and self-effacing grace, and pumpkin spice points the way to it.
In the pantheon of Montreal cultural figures, the soulful, self-effacing singer occupies exalted space.
Dr. Bengio, a professor of computer science at the University of Montreal, is self-effacing.
Practical, self-effacing Nora agreed to marry Charlie because his family owns the neighboring farm.
Even his cadenza in the first piece — "Contrasts," like "Mythes," has three — was self-effacing.
But in the work that drive to both control and be self-effacing is productive.
Maybe Ryan will realize that a truly superb social player doesn't just tell self-effacing jokes.
The Comédie-Française is also the right environment for Desplechin's self-effacing approach to stage direction.
John Mulaney is bringing his brand of dry, self-effacing humor back to Saturday Night Live.
The vision of Harding in "I, Tonya" is something close to the opposite of self-effacing.
In "Certain Women," a much better movie, she slouches onto the screen with self-effacing diffidence.
Roh's driver recalls how Roh, in a self-effacing role reversal, drove him around on his honeymoon.
It's hard to reach hard-to-reach parts of the country if you're shy and self-effacing.
America's clueless, egomaniacal leader makes two-headed Galactic President Zaphod Beeblebrox look like a self-effacing choirboy.
CEO Elon Musk blushed, cursed and made self-effacing jokes when the event didn't go as planned.
She is a phenomenal song writer ... She's this great businesswoman and she's funny and she's self-effacing.
"Jack Marsh is a self-effacing and loyal man who feels very strongly about the Army," Gen.
Yoshie Sakai's lo-fi, charmingly self-effacing video "Strip" (2008) plays on a monitor near the entrance.
That's the problem with being self-effacing all the time; it just doesn't seem to get you noticed.
We have a sense of humor and self effacing sense of pride that maybe only indigenous Clevelander's understand.
There was a gentleness, a thoughtfulness, and a self-effacing quality to how they wanted to ensure change.
He is frank and self-effacing about the fact that he has narrowed his ambitions over the years.
These public servants tend to be self-effacing and deeply knowledgeable about some small realm of public policy.
In a self-­effacing note in his preface, he insists the compendium is the achievement of other writers.
His self-effacing style and encyclopedic grasp of popular culture contribute to a profile of warmth and affability.
"It's funny I love the Olympics and the atmosphere in the village," the self-effacing Kenny told reporters.
Selig, who owned the Milwaukee Brewers before becoming commissioner, was the self-effacing champion of the small market.
But nowhere is his self-effacing goofiness more apparent than on "Mike Tyson Mysteries," which returns on Sunday.
Folksy and self-effacing, Mr. Marsh liked to call himself a plain lawyer from Virginia's Shenandoah apple country.
Russ deLuna played the crucial English horn solo in Sibelius's "Swan of Tuonela" movement with self-effacing eloquence.
No doubt the self-effacing Xiao, chairman of China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC), has done many other things right.
Self-taught and self-effacing: the revered Alabama artist Thornton Dial died on Monday at the age of 230.
Thank You takes flight when she embraces that belief without a shrug or a self-effacing crack in sight.
She says modestly little about her reasons, save for a self-effacing remark about her love for Pakistani sweets.
The book you really want from this self-effacing man is the one he'll never write: "Trillin on Trillin."
" (Her prime photographic documentations tend to cost less than $50,000.) He added: "She's a very modest, self-effacing person.
It's charming without seeming naive, self-effacing without seeming disingenuous, and calming without sending the listener into a coma.
Ingalls, whose works are frequently out of print, has been unjustly neglected, and she is also constitutionally self-effacing.
The once popular image of Dickinson as a self-effacing, self-sacrificing recluse has been shelved in recent years.
That someone so self-effacing left such an enduring mark on New York City surely would have surprised Stebbins.
" Referring to his coverage of the Iran-contra scandal, he was self-effacing, saying it "didn't require that much.
" And at another, in an endearingly self-effacing vein that kept recurring: "I don't know what exculpatory evidence is.
If there was a highlight, it was Caroline Shaw's self-effacing violin concerto, "Lo," with the composer as soloist.
The clips below convey a more relaxed side to the modernist poet, one that's thoughtful, humorous and self-effacing.
She's laugh out loud hilarious, self-effacing, and finds time to pick up the last few calls of the night.
"We ain't born typical," Mosshart breathed during the chorus, unconcerned and self-effacing, but with the slightest tinge of vulnerability.
He was also self-effacing, once saying the only thing he'd done right in life was to marry his wife.
"Arts & Crafts still didn't want to put it out, they just distributed it," Versteeg says with a self-effacing laugh.
I interviewed her in my office and was struck by her depth, self-effacing humor, drive, maturity, and critical thinking.
Andrew also urges Lee to name the tower for himself, something the self-effacing developer has no intention of doing.
This intense, and intensely timely, summer group show starts with a formally self-effacing 25 newspaper collage by Robert Gober.
Ms. Madley Croft was relatively voluble, and Mr. Smith almost entirely self-effacing; Mr. Sim genially, patiently measured his words.
Mr. Hamill — big-hearted, self-effacing, in love with the rhythms of the city and the poetry he found there.
Johnson, self-effacing as ever at 98, seemed somewhat indifferent to the fuss surrounding the feature film about her life.
He decided to do the least cool, most self-effacing thing he could think of: He'd make a kids' record.
He praised Russian cultural achievements, particularly the nation's literary tradition and disarmed his audiences with his trademark self-effacing humor.
And this year, it wasn't just brands looking to get a lift from a solid, self-effacing April Fools gag.
She was beautiful (still is) and self-effacing (still is), and I was curious where her nascent career would lead her.
But Duterte also offered a slightly more self-effacing tone Tuesday, saying he would humbly serve the people of the Philippines.
But, there's one modest, self-effacing chap I know who doesn't go by any of that grand sounding, self-anointed malarkey.
But if self-effacing tweets are anything to go by, nobody is more sick of the song than James Blunt himself.
Sagan, who is as famed for his bike-handling ability as his speed and tactical sense, was far more self-effacing.
He would collaborate on most of his projects, Maison de Verre included, with a self-effacing Dutch architect named Bernard Bijvoet.
He was both candid and self-effacing in his response, saying that no theory of constitutional interpretation — including originalism — was perfect.
That may or may not have been a function of her self-effacing personality, which colleagues and interviewers often commented on.
At the center of it, though in typically self-effacing manner, was the Spanish gambist and early-music specialist Jordi Savall.
The view lured us outdoors, onto an unobtrusive terrace that gave way to a self-effacing deck surrounding a swimming pool.
The reality was Mr. Selby: short and stocky, mild and self-effacing, a man who seemed to listen with his eyes.
Focusing purely on the transactional dimension marginalizes — and risks effacing — its non-monetary value as an aesthetic, civic, and historical contribution.
But during a campaign period typically steeped in polite, self-effacing competition, Huppert is refreshingly forthright in her desire for the Oscar.
But Artist's name, chosen because it grants a degree of anonymity online, is actually as humble and self-effacing as their art.
In an era when individual Mormons like Mitt Romney, the Republican presidential candidate in 2012, gained huge prominence, he was self-effacing.
And since women are so often punished for assertiveness, some women may adopt more self-effacing or cautious speech patterns in response.
A soft-spoken woman with a pert blond bob, Elliott, who is fifty-one, is as self-effacing as she is successful.
Quiet and self-effacing, Mr. Broadley was sometimes so lost in his thoughts that employees were thrilled when he talked to them.
His elder son, Samuel I. Newhouse Jr., a self-effacing executive known as Si, expanded the company after taking charge in 220.
In effacing Andre's story, Tamayo recreates — or exhumes — the form of a Silueta, the ephemeral silhouettes that Mendieta impressed upon the earth.
While she knows that Osmond will likely ruin her, the power and promise of his touch propel her towards self-effacing destruction.
And if his past testimony during his confirmation hearing is any indication, he will come across as a genuine and self-effacing.
The advance man, 20 years older, was a self-effacing sweetheart who became the fixer when anything went wrong, which was often.
It's an expression that's half self-amused, half self-effacing — the perfect embodiment of Janowitz's reaction to the strange world surrounding her.
And it ends, like so many Blue Detective theories, with a self-effacing nod to readers: Yes, I know how crazy this sounds.
"You don't need to offer a soliloquy akin to 'The saga of my career demise,' with self-effacing or regretful details," she says.
In "The Wife", directed by Björn Junge, she plays the devoted wife as muse—a self-effacing helpmate supporting her husband's artistic gift.
And despite the rise in tourism, the city still feels self-effacing, a reflection of the modest, slightly melancholic character of its denizens.
Faith and frailty come crashing into a familiar melange of jazz and funk, Kendrick cutting through the maelstrom with self-effacing soul-searching.
Maybe so, but it's interesting that Schutz, who is so self-effacing in her personal life, would choose self-effacement as a subject.
Like many docile, self-effacing women, Jessica has some hidden pockets of pride, and one of them is her skills as a writer.
It was an exciting evening, with the promise of a happy marriage: intense, committed yet self-effacing playing from a very good orchestra.
Some were similarly self-effacing, like SELLOUT, while others were godawful puns that started out as jokes before turning semi-serious in our desperation.
But, even when he's built a self-effacing comedy into his lyrics, his work has usually been consumed by a sense of imminent mortality.
Morris, despite sitting in searing heat because the noisy air-conditioning had to be turned off during taping, was candid, if typically self-effacing.
"Bogliolo doled out credit and was incredibly self-effacing, talking about how the whole segment did well in retail, not just Tiffany," Cramer said.
He seemed incapable of angst, and came across as a gleeful and self-effacing hero who appreciated designer labels and room-temperature Bud Light.
Her plain-spoken, self-effacing portraits of modern life are pleasantly distorted but never so messy that the lyrics get lost in the fray.
But these days, his voluble rants, during which he can sound like an art-school Louis C.K., are generally good-natured and self-effacing.
Many student butlers here said they had watched and rewatched the show as an instruction video on the self-effacing unflappability of domestic service.
His nuanced approach and self-effacing visual style give you room to breathe and to think; he doesn't try to bludgeon you into feeling.
His stump speeches are packed with self-effacing jokes, and friends say his deepest desire is to be liked — to connect with his audience.
" Most of all, the self-effacing Hoffman is an insider's insider, and has garnered the only-in-Silicon-Valley nickname of "The Startup Whisperer.
More often than not, she speaks in the third person, as in the original text, which is effective in shaping her initially self-effacing character.
They are not unlike the stereotype of the fierce mother — tolerant of her son's faults, self-effacing and willing to do anything to protect him.
But results were never truly dire and his humorous, self-effacing style won him fans, not only among employees but among clients and in government.
That said, Williams being self-effacing and talking about her own game is a lot different in tone than McEnroe making an observation about her.
Though he is too self-effacing to say so, he is a model citizen of the EU. "I am European more than French," he says.
Classical realism is sometimes accused of effacing its own literary labor; the cost of Tokarczuk's flâneurial freedom is that it effaces the labor of travel.
After so many years of being in and out of the Kardashian family, Scott Disick has picked up a modicum of their self-effacing humor.
Slim, mustachioed and self-effacing, Mr. Phillips was highly disciplined and a fierce competitor who honored the basic course set by his predecessor, Bernard Kilgore.
His tall frame was coiled up on his stool, and his demeanor was warm but reticent; he ended most statements with a self-effacing joke.
The second-best hockey film is one in which Canadians are finally self-effacing about one of their greatest on- and off-ice triumphs embarrassments.
Maybe it was a language barrier, but he was so polite and self-effacing that I could never imagine him winning a B-Boy contest.
But the logic behind this—pro-European arguments must be modest, self-effacing and most of all passive to succeed—does not have a great record.
It might seem counter-intuitive amid the spread of artificial intelligence and a tendency for bosses to be more self-effacing, but this risk is rife.
When I met Ditto the morning after she played an intimate and hilarious gig in London, she's just as warm and self-effacing as you'd expect.
"The film has my name, but it's less about me, and more about my chief concerns," the 86-year-old said with characteristic self-effacing charm.
In conversation, Baker is gregarious and self-effacing, miles away from the performer so willing to cauterize a half-decade's worth of wounds in her music.
It is most likely Khosrowshahi will continue the effective humble-pie, self-effacing strategy he used in his goodbye letter to his longtime Expedia staff yesterday.
The self-effacing Will Straw, its executive director, is hardly an attack dog, unlike his counterparts at Vote Leave, Matthew Elliott and the pugnacious Dominic Cummings.
"It's really one thing to have one party behind you," Mr. LePage said on the radio, in an interview that was at times uncharacteristically self-effacing.
With her stringy hair, stooped shoulders and anxious smile, Beth is a weary, self-effacing drone, except to Jamie, for whom she is a radiant queen.
He's very self-effacing when it comes to his New Age tendencies, but his humor belies a lifelong passion for understanding people through their astral connections.
Thanks to institutional sexism, her self-effacing personality, and obnoxious men like Hoover (more on this later), however, Smith Freidman was largely written out of history.
That seems like a nice, self-effacing wink to the reader, suggesting that Penn the Untamable Activist is also just figuring out stuff as he goes.
His insecurities are wrapped up in self-effacing comedy; she presents as more confident, but in a way that comes across as a facade to viewers.
Inge is unmistakably the second fiddle — a self-effacing man whom we barely get to know, though the emotional payoff in Act II depends on him.
Something very Australian about the band was that they were constantly self-effacing — perhaps trying to pre-empt the tall poppy syndrome that comes with success?
The 2012 Republican presidential nominee was relaxed and self-effacing, joking about his past campaigns and the fact that he would have no seniority in Washington.
Her self-effacing Appalachian charm disarms, and then she blindsides listeners — in this case, Congress — with the fact that Heyer's aorta was severed in three places.
They said her apparent lack of presence in the work-place by saying she preferred to work "in the background", in keeping with her self-effacing style.
Her return to the literary world is neither a bombastic refusal to apologize nor a self-effacing apology and plea to be let back into the room.
One returns to her mental illness: She details with candid, self-effacing humor how electroshock therapy helped her with depression, but left her memory full of holes.
Then he made a self-effacing pander: If the people of New Hampshire were against snow, "I am against snow," he said, drawing laughs from the audience.
It also seems to be about the social landscape of Japan where people are often polite, but there's an underlying judgmental attitude beneath the self-effacing etiquette.
He's stayed in the spotlight, doing TV interviews, receiving a standing ovation at a Long Island restaurant and tweeting self-effacing jokes about his White House tenure.
A circular video screen — a feature of Pink Floyd concerts since the '70s — hung over the self-effacing band members, showing mostly animated videos or lighting effects.
The man responsible for that crust is David Bauer, a self-effacing 36-year-old and a pioneer in the movement to use local freshly milled grains.
The self-effacing bride went on to say she's "never been an attention hog" and wouldn't have minded if John had proposed to Jane after the ceremony.
And then, in a self-effacing bout of thrown arms and escalating volume, Mr. Dean reprised the "Dean Scream" made famous during his 2004 run for president.
But at the Emmys, Colbert abetted Spicer's image overhaul and probably upped Spicer's speaking fees by letting him demonstrate what a self-effacing sport he could be.
Some cleared piles of paving stones from the deserted streets outside, effacing the traces of the exuberant protest that a few short weeks ago enraptured the country.
It felt so absurd to do a lot of pomp and circumstance about announcing an album, so part of that was being absurd and self-effacing too.
The spiritual figurehead of the team in many ways has been Southgate, a former England player whose self-effacing enthusiasm has become central to the group's appeal.
The craftsmanship in those studio efforts was as self-effacing as it was substantial; the hired musicians were intended to serve the song, not to be noticed.
But she added that Mr. Irwin's self-effacing approach, and disdain for much of the money-driven contemporary art world, has contributed to his under-the-radar status.
He was smart, modest and self-effacing, and I can't square that impression with his assumption that at 37 he's qualified to be president of the United States.
While he has also collaborated effectively with boldly experimental directors like Ivo van Hove (in "Song From Far Away"), Mr. Stephens mostly leans toward more self-effacing stagecraft.
As embodied by the appealing newcomer Jules Latimer, in a bravely affectless performance, Emmie (birth name: Emaani) has the self-effacing mien of someone who aspires to invisibility.
Mr. Silvers brought to its pages a self-effacing, almost priestly sense of devotion that ultimately made him indistinguishable from the publication he edited, and it from him.
In life he is as self-effacing as the humble Charlie Chan: quiet and soft-spoken, with a boyish grin, a mop of hair and a runner's physique.
McGovern is a lovely actor, but she's too gentle and self-effacing to convince as a Prohibition-supporting scold or provide an effective foil for a teenage tearaway.
If you asked him about his research interests, Tom — in his typical self-effacing style — would tell you he was a jack of all trades, master of none.
"Bush was an ambitious politician, but he also was self-effacing and reluctant to personalize the achievements of his administration," wrote Michael McGough at the Los Angeles Times.
But enough of the coy, self-effacing routine, what about those amazing cities on the covers of the science fiction novels we all know you read as a child?
Ramone and Goodman had met at a Weezer concert, and the self-effacing humor of late 1990s, early 2000s indie rock would surface in the music they'd make together.
Tall, quiet, mature, handsome, self-effacing, the dancer Craig Hall, a soloist with New York City Ballet, bade one kind of farewell on Sunday afternoon with grace and warmth.
That will join the similarly self-effacing "best phone you've never heard of" slogan the company has started rolling out in the ramp-up to Mate 10 Pro availability.
This work suggests there may also be self-effacing reasons for not ending a relationship—what researchers call "prosocial" reasons, which take other people's feelings and perspectives into consideration.
While Mr. Johnson and Mr. Torres can be brash, the man that Mr. Johnson chose to run the council's investigations unit, Mr. Pilnyak, is soft-spoken and self-effacing.
The two were extremely close — she read all his work in progress — but their relationship was puzzling to outsiders, many of whom saw her as self-effacing and subservient.
Dr. Herman's fierce advocacy contrasted with what colleagues characterized as his gentle and self-effacing demeanor, as seen in his willingness to share credit for his research and writing.
He is direct and self-effacing; she is more willing to make herself something of a character, the crescendo of her sentences often ending on an incredulous question mark.
Sy Sperling, a businessman who helped bring the hair-loss industry into the mainstream with ubiquitous, self-effacing ads, died on Wednesday at a hospital in Boca Raton, Fla.
While Republicans can't issue a Roman-style damnatio memoriae effacing Mr. Obama's name and image from the historical record, they will do all they can to erase his legacy.
Noisey: I don't know if you were being self-effacing, but I was reading an older interview and if you were you said you don't consider yourself a songwriter.
Look forward to teleprompter mishaps, well-meaning digs at perpetual Oscar loser Leonardo DiCaprio, and if we're lucky, some self-effacing tripping on the way up to the stage.
He may seem self-effacing, in part because he shuns the public spotlight, but he is tough and those people who think they can roll him will be sorely surprised.
This is a great time to catch up on his past projects, which lack the superhero throwdowns and 'splosions, but have the same sort of goofy, amiable, self-effacing humor.
He's a born conversationalist, self-effacing and not afraid of eye contact, and as unfailingly charming as he was that night backstage in Forest Hills, even without the gorgeous redhead.
Even R.E.M. was able to sneak their mock feel-good hit, "Shiny Happy People," in at number 100, but there was simply no room for Morrissey's self-effacing, bleak worldview.
If this is a taste of what's to come, audiences can expect plenty of laughs and self-effacing humor from the actor (plus a performance fro Jay Z) this coming weekend.
This crisis of confidence at colleges—driven by conflict-shy administrators and self-effacing professors—has come to a head in the culture of protest that has developed on American campuses.
In contrast, Ella is a young woman, knocking on thirty, who spends months taking care of Jill—a thankless, arduous task that could not be more unglamorous, self-effacing, and heartfelt.
He was characteristically self-effacing regarding ceremonial duties like attending funerals of foreign dignitaries ("You die, I fly," he said) but leveraged those occasions to establish personal relations with other leaders.
Besides his immense talents as a designer, Elbaz is one of the most charismatic, self-effacing, and funny personalities in the business — so, unsurprisingly, this wasn't a standard-issue Q&A.
With a bold voice and a remote, self-effacing presence, Sia supplied the soundtrack, while Ms. Mincone — and, onscreen, Ms. Ziegler — embodied every nuance of torment and vindication, surviving every freakout.
This is surely the most willfully modest "Uncle Vanya" on record, and it speaks, for the most part, in a self-effacing murmur, which invites you to lean in and eavesdrop.
A nerdy, terminally unhip hero, Jeremy Heere (a self-effacing, sweetly adenoidal Will Roland), is offered a computerized pill, called a Squip, that rewires him to run with the cool crowd.
As far as musical aliases go it manages to be both self-effacing and sardonic (also true, turns out), which makes it the perfect reflection for the project as a whole.
Front Burner In his many decades at the stove, the chef Jacques Pépin has accumulated a priceless depth of knowledge, and he communicates it freely, with wit and self-effacing charm.
Musicians often describe their work as surrender to a superior force, but Taborn does so with a self-effacing insistence that is all the more striking coming from such a virtuoso.
At her parents' home in a working-class Parisian suburb, Ms. Madani was a self-effacing teenager suffering from depression who had become radicalized under the influence of an older friend.
Where Mr. Trump came off self-centered and easily distracted, she was self-effacing and sharply focused, traits she displayed from her earliest days growing up on the Upper East Side.
There's something self-effacing about the approach of the book — the cutesy-ness of the cover, the actress' insistence throughout that she is a straight-laced super-square — that made me cringe.
Cindy Sherman's "Untitled #463" (2007–08) is about rampant self-performativity; Albert Oehlen's "Untitled" (2008), with its hand-rendered blurs of digital drawings, must be about the internet's effacing of human labor.
Playing the young suburban matriarch Sara Longstreet (a role originated by Nanette Fabray), Betsy Wolfe creates a precise and surprisingly subtle comic portrait, a mix of self-effacing gentility and aggressive ambition.
His vocal flights indicate a self-effacing cipher whose technique on the microphone is ancillary to the way he constructs an echoing hall of rap voices that vary in type and personality.
Across the country and in the corridors of Ottawa, there was quiet satisfaction that self-effacing Canada had stood up to Mr. Trump, and had not allowed itself to be pushed around.
The basketball internet largely took this sequence as an affirmation of his jolly character, evidence of the self-effacing humility with which the 37-year-old has navigated his career's later stages.
As Minghella liked to point out with a self-effacing chuckle, it's the only film to have made it onto magazine lists of both the best and worst movies of the 20th century.
" Executive editor Tom Brevoort adds, "Stan's best creation was always Stan … Stan … was somehow able to tap into his own larger-than-life, self-effacing and self-aggrandizing at the same time personality.
Beyond direct-to-camera interviews, part of the material comes from Buffett addressing a group of high school kids, dispensing homespun wisdom life and money that's self-effacing but infused with considerable authority.
In "Fences," the screen version of the prize-winning August Wilson play, Davis played Rose Maxson, a self-effacing wife whose modest life implodes when her charismatic husband insists on keeping a mistress.
Using the definite article rather than "my," even sardonically, also might be seen as elevating one's child from the pack and effacing the rest, as if theirs is "the" sole child in existence.
He recently moved from Sunset Park to Bay Ridge, where I live, and when we met at a coffee shop on bustling Fourth Avenue, I was struck by the man's self-effacing nature.
As a woman, she was met with backlash because she abandoned traditionally feminine behaviors: "modest, self-effacing and nice," said the scholar Joan C. Williams, a professor at Hastings College of the Law.
CHRISTOPHER CLAREY Andrew Luck was an N.F.L. marketer's dream, an overall No. 213 pick from Stanford who was smart, self-effacing and talented — the successor to quarterback Peyton Manning on the Indianapolis Colts.
Both are brilliant comedians with distinct voices; Ms. Nancherla's material tends toward well-crafted storytelling and self-effacing jokes while Ms. Firestone excels at audience interaction and quirkiness that borders on performance art.sanctuary9176.
The place was impeccable, and, after sitting down, Mr. Stallone, who comes across as self-aware, self-effacing and a little silly, slid a plate of macarons and petit fours across the coffee table.
Once or twice, he thought he'd come close; but in his typically self-effacing way, as gentle off the course as he was bold on it, he admitted he hadn't quite got perfection nailed.
Ms. Light, known for her incisive portraits of sharp-tongued women, here delivers a not entirely fitting study in self-effacing goodness, which makes Thérèse's anger toward her mother-in-law seem especially churlish.
Generally, the female main character (MC) is flustered and virginal, naïve and self-effacing to the point of self-annihilation, while the male characters conform to personality archetypes that are more aggressive and active.
Yet in his book "Good to Great", Jim Collins, a management guru, suggests that the chief executives who stay longest at the top of their industries tend to be quiet and self-effacing types.
Where Strait is polite and self-effacing, Dillon is a big, ornery personality: when Strait asked Dillon to put out his cigarette during their first meeting, he responded by exhaling a mouthful of smoke.
Then finally, he's a person with good humor, he's self-effacing, he has a good nature about him, he's interactive, he's self-deprecating, and all those things of course make it easier to trust.
David: From the moment that I met him, Victor has been one of the most generous and self-effacing people I've encountered, always doing his best to deflect praise directed at him onto others.
Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Elliptical, self-effacing, and subdued, Fabrizio Terranova's Donna Haraway: Story Telling for Earthly Survival (2016) is no ordinary talking-head documentary about the influential philosopher, thinker, and scholar.
Yet Mr. Stanley, a shy and self-effacing mixed-race 27-year-old gay man, has become one of the company's most valued principals, both for his dancing and for what his presence means.
Even before the arrival of the mysterious Mr. Yasaka (Tadanobu Asano), the marriage of Toshio (Kanji Furutachi), the owner of a small machine shop, and his self-effacing wife, Akie (Mariko Tsutsui), appears passionless.
She scrutinizes, for example, Twombly's practice of systematically editing, mixing, and effacing either parts or whole sections of lines that would enter his work (see his heavily edited edition of George Seferis's Three Secret Poems).
He even personified it in some ways: a Mormon family man who was personable and self-effacing and spoke about issues in humane language — and who nevertheless remained, even to this day, very, very conservative.
The songs thrive on their coalition, melding Mr. Yorke's troubled words and aching melodies with Mr. Greenwood's textural mastery (including, presumably, the string arrangements) and the self-effacing contributions of the rest of the band.
However, "Kim Jong Il, during previous summits in 2000 and 2007, also made the same kind of self-effacing comments about North Korea's circumstances," said Christopher Green, a senior advisor at the International Crisis Group.
Mr. Kaspersky appears in self-effacing nerd mode around Kaspersky Lab headquarters, busing his own cafeteria tray and riding the elevator downstairs to smoke outside like everybody else, despite the vast balcony outside his office.
Among Democrats who know him well, Mr. Kaine is considered a self-effacing workhorse who shuns the spotlight and prefers digging into domestic policy and national security rather than showboating on Sunday news programs. Mrs.
Designed with self-effacing, sociological exactitude by Jeff Cowie (sets) and Van Broughton Ramsey (costumes), both veterans of Foote productions, "Young Man" begins in the office of the blusteringly confident Will Kidder, a wholesale grocer.
Bill Graham — the promoter who got started in hippie-era San Francisco, opened the Fillmore East in New York City in 1703 and went on to present concerts worldwide — was by no means self-effacing.
But that confrontation and a string of others in the months since have given Mr. Shaub, a self-effacing career bureaucrat more comfortable parsing legal arguments and wonkish ethics guidelines, the reputation of a fighter.
He makes a cleareyed, straightforward impression in this repertory, with a feeling more modest and self-effacing than in his slightly bolder versions of four of the sonatas on his solo debut recording, from 2016.
If he wins, Scott no doubt will dedicate it to fellow Australian Jarrod Lyle, who died of cancer on Wednesday, but he is too self-effacing to suggest it is more important to him than others.
She delights in effacing herself: She thinks Astaire's habit of thinking about his own dancing in the third person is "a very elegant attitude," and adopts it herself, trying to think of herself as a stranger.
The show glides along on the self-effacing charm of its star (who uses his stand-up moniker, Gabriel "Fluffy" Iglesias, in the credits), but it doesn't seem to be in a hurry to get anywhere.
The president is obviously aware that he's being observed, but his insecurity over his lack of total control regarding how he's perceived translates into muttering and self-effacing glances to anyone in his line of sight.
The effect can be dazzling or grating, depending on your taste, or perhaps both at once, in the case of the self-aggrandizing, self-effacing "All That Jazz," starring Roy Scheider as a Fosse-like choreographer.
Sid O'Nan, a genial and self-effacing father of two teen-agers, who works as an I.T. specialist for the Department of Agriculture, told me that, growing up, he had done some hunting, but not much.
All sports love to pay tribute to the idea of the self-effacing "team player," but if you look at the ranks for Formula 1's most successful drivers, a lot of them had mixed reputations.
Here I was, a bit star-struck, telling him a sheepish "Thank you for everything," and his response, "I'm glad you like my stories," sounded genuinely self-effacing, not magnanimous in today's way of fake modesty.
Towering figures of French cuisine, like the chefs Paul Bocuse and Marc Veyrat, paid homage to Mr. Violier, some expressing shock and remarking on his self-effacing demeanor and culinary artistry, which had garnered him many followers.
Much about ancient societies was exploitative and prejudiced, and historical works are better off wrestling with that reality effacing it for the sake of presenting a deceptively friendly and welcoming picture of history to a modern audience.
The honor of performing a tiebreak procedure which diplomats think was unprecedented in the Union's 60-year history fell to Matti Maasikas, Estonia's self-effacing EU affairs minister, who was chairing the evening ministerial meeting in Brussels.
"Mr. Tillman," the first single from Father John Misty's upcoming fourth studio album God's Favorite Customer, was as self-effacing as you'd hope and and self-referential as you'd expect a Father John Misty song to be.
In an article for the New Statesman in January he described the curious stupor in which Labour's moderates seem to be suspended as the "Micawber Syndrome": the vain and self-effacing hope that "something will turn up".
I can't understand why the President would, once again, disparage a man as exemplary as my friend John McCain: heroic, courageous, patriotic, honorable, self-effacing, self-sacrificing, empathetic, and driven by duty to family, country, and God.
Malcolm Young, who died on Saturday at 64, was the self-effacing guitarist in AC/DC, the one who stood back while his brother Angus ran around arena stages in schoolboy knickers, brandishing a flashy lead guitar.
During his roughly 220 years as chief executive, the self-effacing mogul, who died last October, revived a moribund publication, Vanity Fair, purchased GQ and The New Yorker, and installed Ms. Wintour as the editor of Vogue.
When he and Annie would come by to visit and check in, they were both self-effacing and personable, always with a kind word to all those working on his behalf, supporting his vision for our country.
Well, if we are to believe his company's website, he is a self-effacing type who is very reluctant to brag about himself, even on the About Us page, a place where bragging is kind of required.
Despite the premise — a college student, who just realized that he's gay, moves in with his suicidal mother — the series proved to be the laid-back, gently self-effacing comedy of social awkwardness that its moniker promised.
" The self-effacing actress began her career in England some 20 years ago, racking up credits on comedy sketch shows and in dramatic roles such as television police murder mystery "Broadchurch" and spy thriller "The Night Manager.
They got in the car with Corden, a burbling and pleasant enough man with the high energy of a children's birthday party entertainer, and showed off both their talent and their best approximations of self-effacing good humor.
" But, she adds: "What was news to me and blew my mind in the documentary was the footage of Simpson during his football career and sportscasting career showing how affable, how charming, generous and self-effacing he was.
The current exhibition, George Schneeman: Going Ape at Pavel Zoubok, which closes today, offers another side of this self-effacing, under-appreciated artist: ceramics and small egg temperas on panels in which he made copies of his collages.
O'Brien finds more of the secrets of life in Hemingway than I do, and even I, when confronted with his most overweening examples of parental joy (no matter how self-effacing the delivery), had to shake my head.
It was a decision born of disposition as much as self-preservation: 45 years old, with boyish cheeks, kind eyes and short, graying hair, Liang is quiet and self-effacing, neither a natural advocate nor a zealous crusader.
One need only look at Trump's inability to apologize, and his occasional non-apology apologies, to determine that he is not in the mold of Lincoln, who set an extraordinary example as a self-effacing commander in chief.
Between volunteering their time, donating their coats (or hard-earned cash), and handing out hot food, their self-effacing acts will give you the warm and fuzzies — and inspire you to do whatever you can to make a difference.
"I can't understand why the President would, once again, disparage a man as exemplary as my friend John McCain: heroic, courageous, patriotic, honorable, self-effacing, self-sacrificing, empathetic, and driven by duty to family, country, and God," Romney wrote.
He says that Saverin has correctly identified a large tech investment opportunity in Southeast Asia, and refers to the Facebook founder as "much more humble and self-effacing than most people think... He's not the guy from the movie."
Her self-effacing humor and quirky utility apparel, including men's midriff half-suits and umbrellas made from palm fronds, gained a wide audience through appearances on such talk shows as The Tonight Show, Today, and The Merv Griffin Show.
After releasing a record of Process' gravity, complete with a companion film of the same name directed by Kahlil Joseph, it's likely Sampha will leave these self-effacing days behind and take up his rightful position at centre stage.
And it is here that the film's real stark beauty lies: in the radical gesture of single-handedly effacing a myth, or rather, in giving it an earthly dimension, against the background of Anna Magdalena's devoted yet silenced domesticity.
This is a launch event for Peace Building Hub, "a new approach that holistically looks at the relationship of war and trauma to forgiveness," its founder, Dr. David Zosia (a cornfed, deceptively self-effacing Christopher McLinden), tells the audience.
The monuments to white generals, royals, and colonizers glorify a culture that considered itself superior to any other by effacing, silencing, and excluding the non-white people who lived in the same historical periods but experienced that time differently.
She perfected that self-effacing jujitsu a long time ago, when she became so reviled in some corners of the food world that blogs were devoted to how much she was hated and Rachael Ray jokes became cultural currency.
The visuals are not a narrative, and certainly not a showcase for the self-effacing Mr. Greene; they are more like a light show, a collection of animations pulsing along with the music, echoing the reveries in the songs.
Its new album, "Ladies and Gentlemen" (The Infamous Stringdusters/Compass), features a female guest lead singer on every song (except for an instrumental topped by Jennifer Heartswick on trumpet) above the Stringdusters' self-effacing vocal harmonies and precisely homespun arrangements.
Beyond that, Drake has also made a career out of subtly making fun of himself in ways that appear genuinely self-effacing, be it SNL skits or the "Hotline Bling" video or Instagram posts poking fun at his past on Degrassi.
This brassily self-effacing performance is one of two good reasons to catch Jack Cummings III's respectful reincarnation of "Mattress," which has songs by Mary Rodgers (music) and Marshall Barer, and a book by Jay Thompson, Dean Fuller and Mr. Barer.
Bellamy might well have remained invisible if Judith E. Stein, an art historian, had not become curious to the point of obsession with documenting his life and accomplishments as the enigmatic, self-effacing éminence grise of the New York art world.
"I can't understand why the President would, once again, disparage a man as exemplary as my friend John McCain: heroic, courageous, patriotic, honorable, self-effacing, self-sacrificing, empathetic, and driven by duty to family, country, and God," Romney tweeted. Sen.
It is not every day that you meet a self-effacing artist who makes no attempt to get you to see his work, but, in fact, points you to the work of others, only a few of which he shows.
The Keanu Reeves on display in these early segments is the Keanu Reeves we know and love today, someone characterized in large part by his goofy, self-effacing demeanor, uber-chill attitude, and slow drawl joined with weirdly perfect enunciation.
The writer who emerges from these pages is so humble as to be self-effacing — a quality that makes his halting bids at introspection, for all their genial appeal, seem mostly denuded of the drama that normally fuels Caro's work.
"I wanted to know if I could manage it from A to Z and do everything all by myself," said Mr. Desmarty, who attributed this desire to "a lack of humility," though he said it in the most self-effacing way.
"I can't understand why the President would, once again, disparage a man as exemplary as my friend John McCain: heroic, courageous, patriotic, honorable, self-effacing, self-sacrificing, empathetic, and driven by duty to family, country, and God," Romney tweeted on Tuesday.
She has the same kind of social media magnetism as Trump, except that hers comes from being smart, self-effacing, funny, while to many people (like yours truly) his is more the "can this really be happening?" shock-horror combo.
The biracial Osaka, who was born in Japan to a Haitian-born father and Japanese mother and raised mainly in the United States, has won over the Japanese public with her self-effacing, deadpan manner as much as her sheer tennis talent.
My ignorance is not merely deep, it is broad; it is a vast ocean that takes in chemistry, physics, information theory, thermodynamics… These moments give her books — which are typically about dark and uncomfortable topics — a good dose of self-effacing humor.
The engineers either fade into the background or, as with Samsung's former mobile chief JK Shin, they're trotted out just for a measure of self-effacing humor: "I may not be the best public speaker," said Shin during Samsung's Galaxy S6 launch.
TL;DR: Griffin's self-effacing, unashamed, and naked turn — both physically and emotionally — isn't just a joy to watch, but yet another example of just how good Broad City is at pulling people into its world of radical self-acceptance and debauchery.
He and his advisers promptly beelined to the East Coast, where Perry made the rounds on the morning political talk shows the following day, finishing the evening with a self-effacing appearance on David Letterman (he blamed the gaffe on "El Nino").
Mr. Heard's furious pinwheel of resentment is supported, if not stabilized, by Lisa Eichhorn's self-effacing portrayal of his alcoholic wife and Jeff Bridges's turn as their self-loathing best friend, an unenthusiastic boat salesman who moonlights as a penny-ante gigolo.
Chosen by the coalition because he was so agreeable and self-effacing as to have offended practically nobody, Mr. Sirisena has pledged to persuade his Sinhalese people to support a new Constitution that devolves the powers of the central government that they dominate.
Self-effacing and educated as an ophthalmologist, he had not planned on a political career but was summoned from London by his father and predecessor, Hafez Assad, when the heir apparent, Bashar's elder brother, Bassel, died in a car accident in 1994.
Similarly, his slow, self-effacing, and deliberate way of speaking, with a gaze that made his audience certain he was paying attention only to them, is in stark contrast to all kinds of public figures today, not least the one leading our country.
Whether you're shy, humble, self-effacing, insecure, or simply hate the stereotype of networking, I want to encourage you to make the most of your own personal style in order to build your own brain trust—to start from where you are.
"I can't understand why the President would, once again, disparage a man as exemplary as my friend John McCain: heroic, courageous, patriotic, honorable, self-effacing, self-sacrificing, empathetic, and driven by duty to family, country, and God," Mr. Romney wrote on Twitter.
As for Gisèle Halimi's astonishing speech in defense of a teenage girl and her relatives, on trial for abortion after a rape in 1972, much of it would still apply in many countries, and Mr. Berry recreates it with self-effacing sensitivity.
Self-effacing and clean-cut, with salt-and-pepper hair, a riot of tattoos and an affinity for Comme des Garçons shirts, Mr. Aubry is a 30-year fashion veteran with a sly wit and a low threshold for fashion's superficial side.
Their partnership tied pro wrestling to its carnie, live entertainment past, reminding us that its roots reach deeply into the misty past of America's dramatic heritage, as much ill-fitting suits and self-effacing zingers as strongman contests and duping marks in the audience.
Did I want the plotline in which the woman who has survived her own hard life — abusive mother, abusive husband, enduring poverty — also emerges with a "likable" personality: a plucky spirit, a determined work ethic and a graceful, self-effacing relationship to her own suffering?
The most affecting version that I have ever seen of this epochal comedy of discontent, Richard Nelson's soft-spoken, self-effacing interpretation — with a devastating Jay O. Sanders in the title role — demanded that we lean in and really listen to Chekhov's forlorn characters.
This monthly comedy show, which promises "sharp, acerbic, self-effacing" comedy that doesn't "preach to the converted," is hosted by the actor and presenter John Fugelsang, the writer and former "Mystery Science Theater 3000" host Frank Conniff, and the comedian and writer David Feldman.
He almost never grabs two boards the same way—reaching over the shoulder of a defender to tip one to himself, arching his back and stretching his fingers to get another before it sails out of his reach—but each shares a strange, self-effacing quality.
This work will appear in a Sprüth Magers show opening Friday, July 7, in Berlin, "a very nerdy show based on my research into pigments," said Ms. Saban, who has the soft-spoken, self-effacing manner of a scientist and happens to be married to a doctor.
She and her male producer talk about the vibe for her new songs (mostly having fun and being fun), and I watch as Stodden shifts from the sad, thoughtful version of herself she presented to me earlier to a flippant, self-effacing alter ego: stupid, silly, funny, sexy.
Over the phone from Lisbon, Portugal—his base of the past 11 years— Lennox is humble and self-effacing, inclusive when it comes to talking about the band (he refers to Dibb as part of Animal Collective, despite, as with Merriweather Post Pavilion, his absence on Painting With).
" When Washington received the command, his words of acceptance were almost entirely self-effacing: "I beg it may be remembered, by every gentleman in the room, that I, this day, declare with the utmost sincerity, I do not think myself equal to the command I am honored with.
Beyond a desire to be president — Mr. Bush was more competitive and ambitious than his self-effacing personality sometimes suggested — there is almost nothing in common: the one gracious and modest, the other rude and vain; the one prudent, the other brash; the one steady, the other unmoored.
On the phenomenally popular television show " Servant of the People ," which aired from 2015 to the spring of 2019, he played Vasyl Holoborodko, a lovable and self-effacing high-school teacher who, in the first episode, is filmed by a student unleashing a profanity-filled tirade against Ukraine's corrupt political class.
He knew that Jayaram Jayalalithaa, the head of his party, the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) and chief minister for most of the past 15 years, had chosen him as a stand-in whenever she was battling corruption charges or illness precisely because he was so self-effacing.
Like Americans, we're unafraid to express a little (or a lot) of emotion when confronted with a bad hockey team or the weather in February, but as with the English, our self-effacing comments are merely a front for an unshakable belief in the ultimate superiority of our way of life.
But a selection panel's unanimous choice on Thursday of the self-effacing Tata lifer to take the reins at holding company Tata Sons is also about a strong desire for loyalty and continuity - even if he is unrelated to the Tata family and will be the first non-Parsi to hold the role.
A self-effacing, good-natured, vivacious Texan who professed to be awed by celebrities, Ms. Smith was the antithesis of the brutal columnist J. J. Hunsecker in Clifford Odets and Ernest Lehman's screenplay for "Sweet Smell of Success," which portrayed sinister power games in a seamy world of press agents and nightclubs.
The galaxy, Thousands of fireworks Reflecting the stars, Asleep in space The tombstones of Earth His tall frame was coiled up His demeanor self-effacing He said I'm in a room, Flooded with light, It's a fantasy About finding a way out Of the 65-year silence I want to surprise them.
Waight Keller's couture collections use finishes long associated with women's wear (sequins, delicate floral embroidery) that encourage men to experiment with new identities, and at the Row, the Olsen sisters are creating men's suiting so sublimely minimal it is almost self-effacing, as though its wearer has more cerebral concerns than tailoring.
The adult skills of Mr. Belott's paintings, meanwhile — the subtle modulation of colors, the self-effacing irony of a motley Pied Piper figure in front of two onion domes or of a scientist surrounded by drooping beakers — can't help reading as just a gallery full of reminders that you can't go home again.
While he's still the self-effacing motormouth who rides his bike everywhere, it can take him years to cultivate relationships with those whose work he shows and to be confident that the work will intrigue his core buyers, the architects and decorators whose rarefied clients long for the shock of the new.
That might be surprising to hear in an era when semicolons and colons seem more likely to be used for constructing happy-face emoticons than serving their nobler purpose of making sentences easier to read, but a recent labor law case in Maine has brought new attention to the self-effacing comma.
A lean, slightly built man with glasses and an intense expression, he often looked awkward and ill prepared in the glare of klieg lights, addressing world news media in the unfamiliar role of government spokesman — a remarkable flop for a confident, fastidiously groomed, well-organized scholar with cool manners and a self-effacing wit.
Now, in The B-Side (which just hit theaters), documentarian Errol Morris (The Thin Blue Line) turns his camera on her, letting the kind and self-effacing artist tell her story — from her invention of a proto–selfie stick long before anyone thought of such a thing to the large-format work she's doing today.
Over five seasons, Kitsch convinced audiences that the brooding, self-satisfied high school fullback contained multitudes: that he was at once tragic and dim, caring and self-effacing, charismatic with a sort of visceral, animal sex appeal that makes you embarrassed to be lusting after a teenager (a twentysomething playing a teenager, but still).
They become news and, because most people don't know the person making the allegations, and do feel that they know the celebrity in question—because of their play on the field and self-effacing work in commercials and upstanding post-game press conferences and such—that celebrity overwhelmingly has the support of the public.
For a scientist who has won virtually all of science's most important prizes except the Nobel (and that has been predicted for years), Allis is ruthlessly self-effacing—the kind of person who offers to leave his name on a chit at the faculty lunchroom because he has forgotten his wallet in the office.
Deadpool continues to feel like the character Reynolds was destined to take on, and he's able to deftly combine a self-effacing sense of humor with his now-familiar nasal delivery to create as character that's nearly impossible not to like, no matter what horrible things he says or does (and there are a lot of those).
For a book so self-effacing and respectful of the words of others, "Landmarks" is wildly ambitious, part outdoor adventure story, part literary criticism, part philosophical disquisition, part linguistic excavation project, part mash note — a celebration of nature, of reading, of writing, of language and of people who love those things as much as the author does.
If you know his name, it is most likely that you remember his former label Band of Outsiders, which, from 2004 to 2015, had a profound impact on the way stylish American men dressed, squeezing them into slim shirts and skinny ties and Sperry Top-Siders: prep-school style in quotation marks, self-aware and self-effacing.
" Daily Mail: June 16, 2019Meghan: "Proper royalty is about tradition and duty, self-effacing service and loyalty — year after year after year, season after season... That is not to say that a monarchy cannot or must not move with the times — simply that it has to resist the temptation to be buffeted by passing cultural trends.
When Jay-Z wound down his remarks with the mock-sober reflection that the unhinged conduct of dad-deprived young Black men in confrontations with the cops "causes people to lose lives," he was effacing a counter-narrative that was sitting just a few feet away from him at the time, in the person of hip-hop artist Meek Mill.
Many people — myself included, at one time — consider Louis C.K. to be the greatest living stand-up comic, an astute, self-effacing, disgusting, loving dad who managed to win over not just the morning talk radio boys' club but tougher crowds like feminists and art snobs (maybe because none of us listened to what he was saying to the talk radio boys' club).
Selling tickets to an event loosely inspired by a meme suggested a shift from the ironic and self-effacing to the self-aggrandizing and profiteering — Alienstock was to be a weekend-long experience in the middle of nowhere, with parking and camping spaces costing between $60 and $140, all in order to see unnamed EDM acts and ... get stoked about aliens?
In this, one may glimpse the outlines of an alternate (Catholic?), self-effacing modernity — the loss of control and ontological rejection of mastery in the work of Henri Michaux and Bram van Velde; the descriptive silence of Roger Bissière and the literal silence of Simon Hantaï and Michel Parmentier; Yves Klein's fascination with the immaterial; and Martin Barré's relinquished subjective control (to the benefit of arbitrary systems).
It's a perception that's held up in the press he's done over the years, in which he comes across as down-to-earth, self-effacing, prone to punctuating his speech with the word "honestly," and appealingly fond of talking about how much he loves his wife Emily Blunt, with whom he has two kids, and who's indirectly responsible for the best parts of his careful interviews.
She was self-effacing but a world-class networker—a winning combination that helps explain, along with her intelligence and charm, why all sorts of firms wanted her on their board (from Northern Foods to Centrica, Rolls-Royce and the British arm of Huawei), to advise them (Bain Capital) or to chair them (the Port of London Authority and, more recently, UBM, an events business).
Curated by Lara Marmor, Bruno Dubner, and Ariel Authier, the exhibition Luz de noche — which translates to "Night light" in English — on view at Teatro San Martín's Fotogalería, reveals two sides of Estudio Luisita's photographs: the nightlife on Avenida Corrientes and the Escarria sisters' home studio on the avenue, between the arresting illusion of the revista shows and Luisita and Chela's self-effacing and meticulous work in achieving it.
Villeneuve, whose muscular, melancholy thrillers are often drenched in a terse gloom, imbues the movie with a sleek but self-effacing style that lets his performers—be they capable and famous like Forrest Whitaker and Jeremy Renner, or solid character actors Michael Stuhlbarg (A Serious Man) and Tzi Ma (The Quiet American)—have plenty of room to build characters in a fashion that shouldn't feel old but oddly does.
"Paul was quiet, ironic, self-effacing, witty, warm, scholarly, and diligent — just the kind of guy who'd crunch the numbers to make a point about Latino realignment, whose commitment to a decent future for his nation was such that he'd research and rewrite from his hospital bed on what the Democrats needed to do to win in 2018, who could dismiss his own illness as a trifle indisposition."
A Tribe Called Quest's influence has trickled down through the ages, and you can see shades of Phife's sharp wit and self-effacing sense of humor in avowed fans like Mac Miller and Kanye West, the latter of whom would strike up a working relationship with auxiliary Tribe member Consequence early in his rap career and reform the group to open two shows on the Yeezus tour that would prove to be their last.
Last night gave us numerous lasting images to remember: Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper intimately crooned "Shallow;" Awkwafina and John Mulaney leaned on their self-effacing senses of humor, giving us a glimpse into what they'd look like in a buddy comedy; Spike Lee koala-hugged Samuel L. Jackson when accepting his Best Adapted Screenplay award for BlacKkKlansman—a moment so pure because of its completely unrestrained joy between two close friends.
It's a kind of homage, the same but not, updated and, for a celebrity designer, self-effacing, with nods that may register only subliminally, like the main bar, which is the exact same length as the old bar (27 feet 1 inch); the concrete floor tiles next to it, which are the same width as the terra-cotta ones at 16th Street; the brass light fixtures over the bar, hung at the same height.
A steadfast feminist in a male-dominated art world, Joanna Drew was among a handful of individuals who shaped contemporary visual art in Great Britain post-World War II. Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Miss Drew is a modest and self-effacing lady with exceptional taste and artistic probity; many crucial exhibitions (for example Arp, David Smith) have gained in clarity from her tact, and I refer to all this only because Joanna Drew works inside the anonymity of the Arts Council, which harbours several other dedicated and unsung individuals….
Unabashedly novelistic, Café Society tells the story of a young Jewish man's professional successes and romantic disappointments in both Los Angeles and New York during the years just before World War II. Allen's career-long concerns—the existential and romantic quandaries of Jews in a Goyish world and the plucky travails of strivers who learn to be careful what they wish for—find an elegant recapitulation in the director's first digital feature, with Jesse Eisenberg perfectly rendering the neurotic, self-effacing cadences of Allen's trademark style of speech in the film's lead role.

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