Sentence examples for less self-effacing from inspiring English sources

(In more immature days, Carson's technique was less self-effacing.

Germans, if polls are to be trusted, like this new and less self-effacing image.

That means it has become less self-effacing, abandoning talk of a "no-frills" foreign policy of non-alignment.

The younger women in the room wearing today's less self-effacing asymmetrical designs didn't always carry them off.

Even in its shadows, Beach House has grown less self-effacing than it once was — and rightly so.

There is a certain anonymity to these models, however, and you wonder what a less self-effacing artist might do with the medium.

The author could have been excused his less than self-effacing response to the news that he had received the world's highest literary accolade.

Updated at 8.58pm GMT 8.47pm GMT More on Carney Here's our profile of Mark Carney by economics correspondent Phillip Inman, who writes: Critics say he wears his Oxford doctorate on his sleeve and is less than self-effacing.

Unlike most fighter pilots, much less Aces, Ritchie is self-effacing and humble as they come.

How could material affirming French identity — including its largely Roman Catholic character — be reimagined during an era in which that identity is more self-effacing and less sure of itself?

Mr. Bush has said it quickly became clear that Mr. Cheney was his perfect political partner -- a self-effacing man chosen less for his campaigning skills than for his talent for governing.