How to Use effacement in a Sentence

effacement

noun

• Like their home country, the R70x make a virtue of self-effacement.
  — Vlad Savov, The Verge, 6 July 2018
• Her self-effacement couldn’t meet her standard of telling the truth.
  — Eric Boodman @ericboodman, STAT, 17 Jan. 2021
• Somebody Somewhere suggests self-effacement, and in some ways the series seems to live up to that impression.
  — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Jan. 2022
• Colleagues soon found Kennedy to be an odd combination of bombast and self-effacement.
  — Massimo Calabresi, Time, 28 June 2018
• Mistakes were made, lessons were learned and the self-effacement of key role players carries on, but the path to success always involves a degree of discomfort.
  — Stephen Hobbs, Sun-Sentinel.com, 3 June 2017
• Iowa, in its variety and quiet, in its self-effacement and fertility, drew me in in a way that St. Louis, with its self-consciousness, did not.
  — Danny Wilcox Frazier, Smithsonian, 21 Feb. 2018
• In this way, the 1944 gang-rape of one black woman in Alabama becomes emblematic of the effacement of an entire gender.
  — Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times, 14 Dec. 2017
• The effacement of women from the annals of computing began early.
  — Stephen Phillips, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 June 2018
• This kind of self-effacement entered into almost all of his work, almost always to its benefit.
  — Thomas Beller, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2017
• The result of his self-effacement is a vague and approximate narrative, a heavy reliance on anecdote at the expense of precision.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2022
• Remembering that moment now, Matt Damon flashed his movie-star smile, then slipped back into self-effacement.
  — New York Times, 27 July 2021
• The mannerism is also, obviously, a form of self-disclosure, the only form available to a man who prides himself on his self-effacement.
  — Merve Emre, The New York Review of Books, 10 Mar. 2020
• Nowadays, those who violate progressive pieties risk ejection from the tribe and the wholesale effacement of their handiwork.
  — Lionel Shriver, Harper's magazine, 10 Feb. 2019
• Give Buchanan points for consistency, at least, and for self-effacement, conditioned by years as a backroom White House adjutant.
  — Sam Tanenhaus, Esquire, 5 Apr. 2017
• Fans of Crosley’s signature humor — a blend of upbeat and offbeat self-effacement — will not be disappointed.
  — Alana Massey, New York Times, 19 Apr. 2018
• In a corporate world that values self-effacement and restraint, Ghosn was brash and lived too ostentatiously.
  — Jeff Kingston For Cnn Business Perspectives, CNN, 17 Jan. 2020
• That may sound like trouble, but the innate self-effacement built into the actor’s breezy motormouth skill set apparently kept his better instincts at the fore.
  — Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 14 May 2018
• Bruce is having it both ways, of course, by packing all this self-effacement into a film whose existence undeniably represents an act of ego.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 14 Mar. 2022
• In his townhouse on Wednesday, however, Mr. Carter opted for self-effacement.
  — Michael M. Grynbaum, New York Times, 7 Sep. 2017
• This, for her family and many others, is the tragedy of the Halimi Affair: the effacement of an anti-Semitism that remains a real threat, especially in tense urban areas.
  — James McAuley, Washington Post, 23 July 2017
• Like many creative people, Paulson seems to balance self-effacement with the confidence of someone who is a master of her craft and is finally being recognized as such.
  — Roxane Gay, Harper's BAZAAR, 22 Sep. 2020
• Chad moves stiffly through the world, swinging from bouts of loud hyperactivity to a muttery, almost physical self-effacement.
  — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 16 Mar. 2021
• The effacement isn't just a matter of Baryshnikov's humility before Brodsky's prodigious art, though.
  — Tony Adler, Chicago Reader, 3 Feb. 2018
• Hamm's self-effacement is refreshing—and atypical—in an age when schools compete to land record-setting bequests earmarked for massive buildings named after wealthy alums.
  — Kevin Conley, Town & Country, 1 May 2014
• Problems of displacement and effacement in the Bay Area continue to intensify.
  — Nathan Heller, The New Yorker, 7 June 2019
• Marrying into a family whose identity demands the effacement of your own is a tricky venture in the most straightforward of circumstances.
  — Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 11 May 2018
• In keeping with Stoicism’s tenets about self-effacement, in Holiday’s Twitter profile photo his face is completely covered by his two hands.
  — William D. Cohan, New York Times, 27 Feb. 2018
• Such self-effacement is another reason why Britt has struck a chord with so many of his professional collaborators and students.
  — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Oct. 2022
• The band was defined by his peculiar psychology—narcissism tempered by self-effacement topped with a wicked sense of humor—and driven by a genius guitarist, Johnny Marr, with no desire for the spotlight.
  — Kenneth Partridge, Billboard, 14 Mar. 2018
• The moral of the folktale, as Hauser sees it, is that heterosexual relationships often demand self-effacement, even self-annihilation from women.
  — Rachel Connolly, The New Republic, 12 Aug. 2022

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