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    Humility (redirect from Self-effacing)
    or self-deprecating thought, but the effacing of oneself to something higher. Humility is not to think lowly of oneself, but to appreciate the self one...
    45 KB (5,343 words) - 06:57, 19 May 2024
  • below after a short, general definition from Princeton's WordNet. Self-effacement is defined as withdrawing into the background, making yourself inconspicuous...
    7 KB (1,022 words) - 13:27, 22 December 2023
  • (classical music, literature); solitude and self-isolation; volatile relationships (especially with women); self-effacement; nihilism; and the violation of societal...
    4 KB (444 words) - 19:52, 13 June 2024
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    people. This category is seen as a process of joining, submitting, or self-effacement. Under Horney's theory children facing difficulties with parents often...
    37 KB (4,676 words) - 01:40, 29 May 2024
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    Republic's state of mind after its prudent self-effacement during the Northern War and during the past-effacing enrichment of the Celtic Tiger boom. It stood...
    18 KB (1,703 words) - 14:47, 16 May 2024
  • protagonist with "the culturally approved traits of beauty, sacrifice, and self-effacement".: 100–101  In fan-fiction versions, the protagonist traditionally...
    20 KB (2,317 words) - 20:12, 13 June 2024
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    extreme, and is often coupled with an attitude of personal helplessness, self-effacement and resignation. This doctrine is perhaps best expressed in the teachings...
    24 KB (2,917 words) - 06:41, 22 February 2024
  • music journalist Paul Zollo in 2004, Petty agreed that humour and self-effacement had been key factors in the Wilburys' success, adding: "We wanted to...
    62 KB (6,231 words) - 02:15, 15 June 2024
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    meaning epidemic. It’s an example of typical post-imperial British self-effacement. Blighty is commonly used as a term of endearment by the expatriate...
    10 KB (1,073 words) - 17:28, 2 May 2024
  • Confidence (redirect from Self-confidence)
    score characterizing someone who is "timid and self-distrustful, shy, never makes decisions, self-effacing" to a maximum score characterizing someone who...
    55 KB (6,554 words) - 09:17, 13 June 2024
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    virtues which English people traditionally value: stoicism, modesty and self-effacement, all tinged with humour." Cook was appointed MBE in 2011 and promoted...
    147 KB (15,703 words) - 21:59, 10 May 2024
  • Frances M (1992), "Coming to terms with failure: Private self-enhancement and public self-effacement", Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 28: 3–22...
    105 KB (11,271 words) - 03:32, 29 January 2024
  • is that he's not purely a loser. The self-loathing that causes him so much anguish is decidedly not self-effacement. Charlie Brown is optimistic enough...
    101 KB (11,536 words) - 16:12, 15 June 2024
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    if they had known of it. It reigns with serenity and in complete self-effacement amidst the wildest confusion. The huger the mob, and the greater the...
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  • officiallondontheatre.co.uk. Retrieved 22 April 2017. "Interview: Leading with self-effacement". The Independent. 3 November 1997. Retrieved 22 April 2017. "Deborah...
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  • is that he's not purely a loser. The self-loathing that causes him so much anguish is decidedly not self-effacement. Charlie Brown is optimistic enough...
    32 KB (3,747 words) - 14:02, 26 May 2024
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    Although in principle, she had precedence over Cixi, Ci'an was in fact a self-effacing person and seldom intervened in politics, but she was the decision-maker...
    46 KB (6,307 words) - 13:12, 4 March 2024
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    Victorious, iCarly, and Zoey 101. The name "The Orion Experience" is a "self-effacing" reference to other bands like The Alan Parsons Project and the Steve...
    14 KB (1,086 words) - 03:47, 16 March 2024
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    suspicion, so immune from criticism, so admirable in his management and self-effacement, that for those very words that you have uttered he could hale you...
    27 KB (3,424 words) - 16:40, 20 April 2024
  • Tolerance (Toleranz) Incorruptibility (Unbestechlichkeit) Restraint / self-effacement (Zurückhaltung): Mehr sein als scheinen ("To be more than to appear")...
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