self-effacingly

The effect is that I feel that, as a woman, I have to dance the line between being confidently assertive and self-effacingly modest.

You Didn't Think You Could Win, Did You? Peggy 2008

The effect is that I feel that, as a woman, I have to dance the line between being confidently assertive and self-effacingly modest.

Archive 2008-12-01 Peggy 2008

BNY Mellon, self-effacingly positioned himself as a support act for

Overheard: Rough Math 2010

(Thus the ghost of the phrase "busman's holiday" hovers self-effacingly in the background.)

The Maintenance of Headway by Magnus Mills 2010

She self-effacingly admits that her family often calls her “Kate Chaos,” a reference to the fact that she is not the most organized person.

Crazy Like Us Ethan Watters 2010

Deferring self-effacingly to his French colleague Bertron, who prepared a filet of beef accompanied by a tomato-less ketchup at the Dijon demo, the playful Rose treated the crowd to fried green tomatoes.

Flora Lazar: Hardest Reservation in Paris: New Trier Grad's Restaurant 2010

Deferring self-effacingly to his French colleague Bertron, who prepared a filet of beef accompanied by a tomato-less ketchup at the Dijon demo, the playful Rose treated the crowd to fried green tomatoes.

Flora Lazar: Hardest Reservation in Paris: New Trier Grad's Restaurant 2009

She is an excellent artist, and after collaborating so self-effacingly with others — often playing only the continuo — she deserved the spotlight.

Edith Weiss-Mann. 2009

Anybody who's that self-effacingly reckless about going to see art deserves our attention.

Ways Of Looking 2008

As Mike himself has repeatedly and self-effacingly noted, "I've always said that a new guy can do better."

Mark Green: Bloomberg Should Come to Terms and Resist a Self-Dealing Power Grab 2008