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Example sentences for: self-effacing

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The prevailing style of the GOP moderate is modest and self-effacing.
Edgar Jr. is soft-spoken and self-effacing.
The magazine, which had been self-effacing to the point of reclusiveness, suddenly was brilliantly packaged and promoted.
His self-effacing devotion to his art, and especially to landscape, helped to pry open the jaws of academic convention.
But consulting is a self-effacing business, and self-effacement is one thing that Ralph Reed has shown no aptitude for.