Sentence examples for unusually self-effacing from inspiring English sources

It was not that the violinists, Eugene Drucker and Philip Setzer (who take turns in the first chair), were in less than best form, or that there was anything unusually self-effacing in their playing.

Though she has since won the National Humanities Medal, been nominated for a Pulitzer, and written dozens more books and short stories (including one published in the magazine this week), she remains unusually self-effacing.

In fact Mr. Deeds -- a decent, unusually self-effacing man who calls himself "a nobody from nowhere" -- has a compelling life story and an admirable record of achievement as a legislator from rural Bath County.

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).

The result is an unusually self-effacing transposition of a play to the screen, one that has some acute visuals, none more so than a moment in which we see the TV glimpse of Greg in a gay parade that so horrifies his father.

The campaign clothes are remarkably self-effacing.

Equally unusually, he is self-effacing and polite.

In Congress, where bombast and pomposity are common, Mr. Mansfield was unusually modest and self-effacing.

For an actor, McKenna was an unusually modest and self-effacing man, and this trait lent a profound transparency and poignancy to those performances that touched on failure and disappointment, notably in Chekhov.

They are both calm and self-effacing and unusually popular with reporters.

Colleagues describe him as an unusually brash member of what continues to be a self-effacing and very private family.