How to Use effacement in a Sentence

effacement

noun

• Her self-effacement couldn’t meet her standard of telling the truth.
  — Eric Boodman @ericboodman, STAT, 17 Jan. 2021
• Like their home country, the R70x make a virtue of self-effacement.
  — Vlad Savov, The Verge, 6 July 2018
• Colleagues soon found Kennedy to be an odd combination of bombast and self-effacement.
  — Massimo Calabresi, Time, 28 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
• 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
• The effacement of women from the annals of computing began early.
  — Stephen Phillips, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 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
• Remembering that moment now, Matt Damon flashed his movie-star smile, then slipped back into self-effacement.
  — New York Times, 27 July 2021
• 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
• Nowadays, those who violate progressive pieties risk ejection from the tribe and the wholesale effacement of their handiwork.
  — WSJ, 23 Jan. 2019
• 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 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
• 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
• 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
• 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 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The Vandewater performs a similar act of semi-self-effacement.
  — Curbed, 18 Aug. 2022
• 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
• The effacement isn't just a matter of Baryshnikov's humility before Brodsky's prodigious art, though.
  — Tony Adler, Chicago Reader, 3 Feb. 2018
• Problems of displacement and effacement in the Bay Area continue to intensify.
  — Nathan Heller, The New Yorker, 7 June 2019
• 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
• 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
• Their replacements, designed by a corps of ultraprestigious architects, share an aesthetic of ruthless self-effacement.
  — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 31 Aug. 2021
• Overstimulating yourself with news and the goings-on of those around you, however, can lead toward dangerous habits like self-effacement and social comparison bias.
  — Kenneth R. Rosen, Wired, 30 Mar. 2022
• 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
• The book, a memoir and creative autobiography, is meant as an antidote, a guide to avoiding self-effacement in a world where women are routinely disappeared and quieted down.
  — Jennifer Wilson, The New Republic, 3 Apr. 2020
• Some of this incoherence points to the plight of female ambition, its endless negotiations between egoism and self-effacement, toughness and delicacy.
  — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 13 June 2022