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referred to as kami-sama, meaning "Revered spirit-sama". When used to refer to oneself, -sama expresses extreme arrogance (or self-effacing irony), as...

appreciation of oneself, one's talents, skills, and virtues. It is not meekness or self-deprecating thought, but the effacing of oneself to something higher...

Orthodox Christian term referring to a false spiritual state of holiness or a spiritual illness of believing oneself less sinful than one is. Prelest should...

have enjoyed its unconventional structure.... Bakewell makes no attempt to efface herself, yet her vivid presence never obscures his. It's rather like having...

on a gambling form. To suck up is defined as either to try to gain favor by cringing or flattering, or to ingratiate oneself to another, often with insincere...

kun'yomi readings separate kanji from their okurigana. The "New" column attempts to reflect the official glyph shapes as closely as possible. This requires using...

prior to the abstraction and that the event is always replete with a context, intimacy, immediacy, and significance to the participants that is effaced in...

oneself to an individual perceived to be superior to or better than oneself. Upwards social comparison towards someone felt to be similar to oneself can...

to a corrosive nihilism. For example, Wolin argues that the "deconstructive gesture of overturning and reinscription ends up by threatening to efface...

of Siva expressed by: Deep humility and self-effacement, admission of sin and weakness; Total surrender to God as the only true refuge; and A relationship...

continuous effort to achieve intellectual honesty. His self-exploratory texts reflect his search of how to be fully oneself, even to the point of owning...

Self-confidence is trust in oneself. Self-confidence involves a positive belief that one can generally accomplish what one wishes to do in the future. Self-confidence...

they are more likely to blurt out sensitive information. They also frequently adopt self-effacing attitudes to strangers so as to avoid unwanted attention...

person during their youth. Example of a nasib poem by Labid ibn Rabiah: Effaced are the abodes, brief encampments and long-settled ones; At Mina the wilderness...

with pretensions to a unitary authority, becomes suspect, since it implies the exclusion of other voices, calcifying discourse and effacing the heteroglot...

human-limb object is a docile servant. A good servant is discreet and self-effacing to leave his master free. Certainly, works of art are tools, beautiful tools...

regardless of all technique, is ready only to follow the dictates of the subconscious. The man has effaced himself as the wielder of the sword. When he...

trickling, self-effacing score to the tight-lipped stoicism of its leading performances, from David Gallo’s tidy tenement-scape set to Zachary Borovay’s...

factors increase one's propensity to deviate from the modelled assumptions of decision making. It is argued under self-effacing moral theory that such mechanisms...

effacement of the ego is necessary to conquer destiny, whether you achieve this effacement through Self-inquiry or through bhakti-marga. According to...