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11/2 Pages « ‹ [1] [2] › » - Rostropovich unfolded the score with loving care, but the result was too slow and self-effacing. Performances continue till February 10. ( Quelle: Financial Times 1994 )
- Some of my first exposures to similar patronizing comments left me speechless; like many Americans, I had come to think of Japanese businessmen as invariably polite, self-effacing and even bland. ( Quelle: Wall Street Journ... )
- His self-effacing style is a breath of fresh air in Washington and has gone down well with more overtly ambitious colleagues. ( Quelle: Financial Times 1993 )
- Their eloquence is manufactured by self-effacing, anonymous ghosts, who work overtime in an election year. ( Quelle: AP 1988 )
- Oona is completely reserved, self-effacing; never wanted the career, never wanted the limelight. She was in love with him her whole life. ( Quelle: AP 1989 )
- Alaska banks were receptive to Mr. Zamarello, with his workaholic habits, his self-effacing wit and his contagious optimism. ( Quelle: Wall Street Journ... )
- But the Golf is also noisier. The VW engine, which starts instantly from cold without needing a few seconds pre-heating from glow plugs, is decidedly throbby at low speeds and is never so self-effacing as the Xantia's. ( Quelle: Financial Times 1994 )
- It accentuates its self-effacing approach by using behind-the-scenes commentaries and graphics, rather than presenters, to accompany and explain its footage. It was set up as a joint venture owned by the EBU members supplying its footage. ( Quelle: Financial Times 1994 )
- In his quiet, self-effacing way, Lionel Pincus rounded up $1.17 billion last month for a venture capital investment fund that is the industry's biggest ever. ( Quelle: Wall Street Journ... )
- At home he is self-effacing, sweet-natured and trusting in an almost childlike way. In company he can be garrulous yet elusive, metaphorically diving into the dressing-up box to put on another cloak for another character. ( Quelle: Financial Times 1993 )