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Although she is shy and self-effacing, she is fiercely competitive.
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But halfway through dinner there is an unexpected compliment and an accidental brushing of fingers against one's hand; there is a tender admission and a self-effacing laugh; then suddenly a kiss.† (source)
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Mae had discovered all this one Thanksgiving at Annie's house, with twenty-odd relatives there, all with their thin noses, their pink skin, their weak eyes hidden behind forty lenses, when she became aware, during an appropriately self-effacing conversation—for Annie's family was equally unwilling to talk too much or care too much about their lineage—that some distant relative of theirs had been at the very first Thanksgiving.† (source)
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He cracked a self-effacing grin.† (source)
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I thought he might shift from the self-effacing Abnegation leader to the nightmare I knew at home, that he might lash out and reveal himself for who he is.† (source)
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And in Ira's Pima culture being quiet and self-effacing was encouraged.† (source)
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Finnick's real charms of self-effacing humor and an easygoing nature are on display for the first time.† (source)
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She reminds me of my mother; what I loved most in Mother was her self-effacement, her 'dimness,' as they say, and it's she I've always wanted to get back to.† (source)
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He was tall, with a clean jaw and modest mustache, and wore a cheap suit; in his thirties; good looking, in a way, but at the same time self-effacing and plain—though at the moment he appeared to be angry.† (source)
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However, whenever his eyes met David's father's, the expression on his face tended to freeze into one of ingratiating self-effacement.† (source)
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Totally out of character, but in case anyone should ever refer to them, he had better restudy the "facts" so he could at least nod in self-effacing modesty.† (source)
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"I wouldn't ever have it said that I stood in the way of a poor girl like Mattie marrying a smart fellow like Denis Eady," Zeena answered in a tone of plaintive self-effacement.† (source)
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Esther Winship's apartment was lavishly understated, beiges, off-whites, great staid sofas that did not give when you sat, and expanses of dunnish rug, deep-piled, and almost no pictures, and the few pictures Esther elected to hang were self-effacing to the point of who cares, and the place had so much attitude, all tension and edge, that Jack seemed largely lost here.† (source)
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This self-effacement in both directions had been quite in consonance with her independent character of desiring nothing by way of favour or pity to which she was not entitled on a fair consideration of her deserts.† (source)
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I am glad to be living with this kind couple, whose quiet, self-effacing manner I am coming to understand.† (source)
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At half-past ten Tibby, with rare self-effacement, fell asleep, and Margaret was able to drive her aunt to the station.† (source)
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