He showed traces of self-deprecation.
Most visible traces of self-loathing have gone".
Dr. Tomas Stockmann has thrown off the last traces of self-control, and the results are not pretty.
Like emo it has traces of self-conscious irony, but its attitude is too intensely felt to be only ironic.
And at the end of the war, when word arrived of the immense atrocities that had been committed in Europe, any traces of self-pity vanished.
His barrel-chested baritone still radiates masculine sincerity, along with the traces of self-doubt or indignation that his songs often require.
(That, by the way, was just a few months after the summer of 1963, when Don's father, Philip, had committed suicide — a terrible trauma, and one that Don bore without any visible traces of self-pity or weakness).
"The traces of self-consciousness, of awkwardness on the stage, had disappeared; and at the same time she sang more freely, more powerfully, more intensely — and also more bewitchingly — than ever before".
"He would say, 'Let me steep myself in one of your stories.' " He credited Mr. Plummer with helping him remove traces of self-pity from the script — self-pity being one of Mr. Plummer's most detested traits — and discovered that the performer was game for all sorts of impish acting exercises.
In one training ritual, the bare-chested legionnaires ritually and without a trace of self- consciousness or squeamishness throw themselves into each other's arms.
The slightest trace of self (in the act of giving) and it is not dana, it's self-aggrandizement and it always does harm.
