Sentence examples for bordering on self-effacement from inspiring English sources

Modesty bordering on self-effacement is his default mode.

At times, its labyrinthine financials bordered on self-parody.

The country has gone from poor to wealthy in a generation or two, thanks to its North Sea oil, but the national ethic is based on thrift, self-effacement and a leveling tax code.

For further developments on this "self-effacement" argument: Luban (1996, 165) 165

Behind it all is a self-confidence bordering on arrogance.

Asked why he would be a sound choice, he replied that the answer "requires one to put their self-effacement on the shelf" -- which he proceeded to do.

To react to Keller was to be targeted anew, and Gordon writes movingly about taking on classic female roles – conciliation, self-effacement – but wrestling free of them through art and music.

That doesn't make them narcissists in the Gibson mold, but it does suggest that we've entered an era where self-branding is on the ascent and the culture of self-effacement is on the decline.

Their competence was not flaunted, because their accession to positions of power depended on a degree of self-effacement; the gray men of the Politburo did not take well to rock stars.

Republicans have no monopoly on such self-aggrandizement through self-effacement.

I remember her telling me about her unease when she first began to direct and found herself falling back on her reflexive habits of self-effacement and wifely clucking over other people's comforts -- I'm sorry I'm existing.