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As my monastery's Rule for Associates puts it, Humility is not self-denigration; it is honest appraisal.
John Backman: Can Humility Change The World? John Backman 2011
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As my monastery's Rule for Associates puts it, Humility is not self-denigration; it is honest appraisal.
John Backman: Can Humility Change The World? John Backman 2011
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Our national passion for self-denigration makes it difficult to remember that only a decade ago it used to be impossible to find a vegetable north of Dundee or south of the Tamar.
Britain isn't called great for nothing | Bella Bathurst 2011
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Possibly both at once; writers can be very creative when it comes to self-denigration.
Hacks and Artistes camillalexa 2009
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As my monastery's Rule for Associates puts it, Humility is not self-denigration; it is honest appraisal.
John Backman: Can Humility Change The World? John Backman 2011
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As my monastery's Rule for Associates puts it, Humility is not self-denigration; it is honest appraisal.
John Backman: Can Humility Change The World? John Backman 2011
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As my monastery's Rule for Associates puts it, Humility is not self-denigration; it is honest appraisal.
John Backman: Can Humility Change The World? John Backman 2011
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She'll come horrifyingly close to self-denigration in the divorce essay, for example, but then, just in case you might go along with that gag, she'll dazzle you in the next pages with strings of perfect prose.
Nora Ephron's new memoir, "I Remember Nothing," reviewed by Carolyn See Carolyn See 2010
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She'll come horrifyingly close to self-denigration in the divorce essay, for example, but then, just in case you might go along with that gag, she'll dazzle you in the next pages with strings of perfect prose.
Nora Ephron's new memoir, "I Remember Nothing," reviewed by Carolyn See Carolyn See 2010
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Unfortunately, self-denigration is also proportional to the collapse in prices, and so the Irish now feel a deep shame at their all-too-willing suspension of disbelief.
When Irish Eyes Stop Smiling Theodore Dalrymple 2010
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