Somehow they blunder on toward their whimsical destination, he remarks, the seductive and tickling narrative told with understatement, self-effacement, savage wit, honed irony, and unrelenting honesty.
Her other two neurotic solutions were also a refinement of her previous views: self-effacement, or submission to others, and resignation, or detachment from others.
With the modesty and self-effacement that have been the defining characteristics of his distinguished career, my client intended to keep his hospitality a private matter.