Use "self-effacement" in a sentence

1. The only quibble I have with Socrates, as expressed by Plato, is that Socrates said, in a great expression of self-effacement, that he only knew that he knew nothing

2. Years of self-effacement and pretence had left their mark

3. Besides, she had been trained in a healthy self-effacement

4. He had proposed to her arrayed in a blue flannel nightingale, and Priscilla felt that headlong self-effacement could go no further

5. Self-effacement starts when seeker enters into a state of total surrender

6. Self-effacement is really the substance, the crux of spirituality

7. I would not have to think about the spiritual line because traversing the path may be done through self-effacement

8. I have heard tonight similar, but even more offensive, sentiments from the person who has just sat down, and though it is a conscious effort of self-effacement to come down to that person's mental level, I will endeavor to do so, in order to allay any reasonable doubt which could possibly exist in the minds of anyone

9. This self-effacement in both directions had been quite in consonance with her independent character of desiring nothing by way of favour or pity to which she was not entitled on a fair consideration of her deserts

10. Keith was thinking about the affinities between self-effacement and self-assertion when the door to Regan’s left opened