She's brilliant but self-effacing.
My teacher is a very quiet modest self-effacing person.
I swallow redundant excuses, heart is like a snow next, self-effacing of pale.
Let yourself be encouraged. Don’t be self-effacing or overly modest.
He exuded confidence and professionalism but was self-effacing and modest, always ready to make fun of himself.
The shoes and socks were a declaration of individual love in a country obsessed with the self-effacing collective.
My interview will appear on Chelsea TV and Channel 5 TV in the UK on Thursday evening and he was honest polite and self-effacing to a fault.
He also is self-effacing and secure enough to acknowledge that if his name were Smith or Jones, no one in China would be interested.
My father, so self-effacing in normal life, would wake up, call our names, say how much he loved us and blow kisses, before succumbing once more to the exhaustion that was pulling him away from us.
