Sentence examples for self-effacing attitude from inspiring English sources

This self-effacing attitude to individual style comes in part from that ethos Rogers mentions.

It's a remarkably self-effacing attitude, and one that seems to inspire awe in Mr. Ocasek's charges.

He was invariably dressed in a short-sleeved white shirt and a red tie and typically delivered his lines with a bemusedly self-effacing attitude.

Their self-effacing attitude and insecurity about the future has touched a nerve with a generation in a permanent state of uncertainty.

Franck's self-effacing attitude toward many of the awards which came late in his life is expressed in a letter of August 21 , 1963 to Robert Livingston: "In most cases, it [an honorary degree] is just a sign of old age". [Box 5, folder 1].

This unusually self-effacing attitude is in harmony with the personal assessments made by his colleagues and students: cf. Heidegger 1992; Cassirer 1925; Gadamer 1977; indeed, Natorp begins his "self-portrait" of 1921 with the words, "de nobis ipsis silemus" (taken from the Baconian epigraph to the first Critique) (Natorp 1921f).

He never paraded his achievements, maintaining a self- effacing attitude to the last.

It also seems to be about the social landscape of Japan where people are often polite, but there's an underlying judgmental attitude beneath the self-effacing etiquette.

It also seems to be about the social landscape of Japan where people are often polite but there's an underlying judgmental attitude beneath the self-effacing etiquette.

His attitude is a self-conscious twist on the self-effacing modesty of the martial arts protagonists of Hong Kong movies.

Matt Stein, vice president for marketing, promotion and creative services at BBC America, describes the campaign's attitude as adopting "the British tone of voice: self-effacing, yet unbelievably confident".