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But the ever present voice in my head, urging me to be responsible, to think of others, to act humbly, be self-effacing, is very hard to resist.

2009 March « Becca’s Byline 2009

But the ever present voice in my head, urging me to be responsible, to think of others, to act humbly, be self-effacing, is very hard to resist.

All About Me 2009

The problem with being self-effacing is that it's a rare person who will promote you when you efface yourself ... and if you happen to be the designated drivers, well you might just not get much notice at all.

galleon trade edition 2008

After all he may just have enough shame left to avoid being seen to celebrate the effacing from the history books of the United Kingdom.

Archive 2007-10-14 2007

After all he may just have enough shame left to avoid being seen to celebrate the effacing from the history books of the United Kingdom.

Champagne, Anyone? 2007

At the close of the last century, when the armies of the French Republic were occupying Switzerland, a regiment consisting mainly of Burgundians, under the notion of effacing an insult to their ancestors, tore down the

The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 2 George Gordon Byron Byron 1806

LeVine, who came on the scene in the middle of this decade, doesn’t hold himself up as a Master Taster, indeed he is self effacing, which is the whole point of CellarTracker.

Vote now! Wine Person of the Decade [the Naughties] | Dr Vino's wine blog 2009

The account in 1 Chronicles x. adds that Saul's head was sent to the temple of Dagon, probably as a kind of effacing of the shame wrought there by the presence of the ark.

Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII Alexander Maclaren 1868

Today, a similarly colorful collection of practitioners has seized on the anxiety created by the bureaucracy of managed care and the generally effacing qualities of modern society in order to peddle a brand of medicine whose primary appeal lies in its focus on the patient as a whole person.

The Panic Virus Seth Mnookin 2011

A silver-haired, self-effacing man, Stevens worked effectively with swing votes Sandra Day O'Connor, who served until 2006, and Anthony Kennedy, the justice currently in the middle of an ideologically split court.

Justice Stevens to retire from Supreme Court 2010