self-effacement

I gave up trying to interview them after a few minutes and like the audience I just watched in silent admiration and awe as these two East Coast-born, L.A.-raised Jewish teenagers (notwithstanding their birth certificates that said they were both in their seventies) regaled us with stories of the early days of rock 'n' roll and (with self-effacement) their seminal part in its development.

Martin Lewis: Is That All There Is? A Fond Farewell to Jerry Leiber Martin Lewis 2011

I gave up trying to interview them after a few minutes and like the audience I just watched in silent admiration and awe as these two East Coast-born, L.A.-raised Jewish teenagers (notwithstanding their birth certificates that said they were both in their seventies) regaled us with stories of the early days of rock 'n' roll and (with self-effacement) their seminal part in its development.

Martin Lewis: Is That All There Is? A Fond Farewell to Jerry Leiber Martin Lewis 2011

Khusraw exclaims: Then I said, 'In that case, my friend, you have made no hajj, you have not become a dweller in the station of self-effacement.

Zahra N. Jamal, Ph.D.: Hajj Diaries: The Multiple Dimensions Of Muslim Pilgrimage Ph.D. Zahra N. Jamal 2011

I gave up trying to interview them after a few minutes and like the audience I just watched in silent admiration and awe as these two East Coast-born, L.A.-raised Jewish teenagers (notwithstanding their birth certificates that said they were both in their seventies) regaled us with stories of the early days of rock 'n' roll and (with self-effacement) their seminal part in its development.

Martin Lewis: Is That All There Is? A Fond Farewell to Jerry Leiber Martin Lewis 2011

Anti-exceptionalism has clearly shaped his "leading from behind" profile abroad—an offer of self-effacement to offset the presumed American evil of swaggering cowboyism.

Obama and the Burden of Exceptionalism Shelby Steele 2011

Khusraw exclaims: Then I said, 'In that case, my friend, you have made no hajj, you have not become a dweller in the station of self-effacement.

Zahra N. Jamal, Ph.D.: Hajj Diaries: The Multiple Dimensions Of Muslim Pilgrimage Ph.D. Zahra N. Jamal 2011

Jane Kirk, a Republican from Nelson, gushed over Mr. Huntsman's manners, his self-effacement and his low-key discourse.

Huntsman Finds Center Stage Jonathan Weisman 2011

When he bows to foreign leaders, he is not displaying "otherness" but the counterculture Americanism of honorable self-effacement in which America acknowledges its own capacity for evil as prelude to engagement.

A Referendum on the Redeemer Shelby Steele 2010

It is a privilege to work with Steve whose smarts and self-effacement are legendary in a town that rarely sees much of those qualities in combination.

The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011

I gave up trying to interview them after a few minutes and like the audience I just watched in silent admiration and awe as these two East Coast-born, L.A.-raised Jewish teenagers (notwithstanding their birth certificates that said they were both in their seventies) regaled us with stories of the early days of rock 'n' roll and (with self-effacement) their seminal part in its development.

Martin Lewis: Is That All There Is? A Fond Farewell to Jerry Leiber Martin Lewis 2011