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Their self-effacing ways have brought peace and healing to the world. | Sus maneras self-effacing han traído paz y curativo al mundo. |
She was humble, self-effacing, and very, very special. | Ella era humilde, modesto, y muy, muy especial. |
He could be more generous and more self-effacing. | Podría ser más generoso y más abnegado. |
What? You're the most self-effacing doctor I've ever met. | Eres el doctor más modesto que he conocido. |
This puts us in a position of self-effacing love. | Esto nos pone en la situación de practicar amor ignorándonos a nosotros mismos. |
You're the most self-effacing doctor I've ever met. | ¿Qué? Eres el doctor más modesto que he conocido. |
Responsibility is not self-effacing. | La responsabilidad no es modesta. |
A short, portly man approached with a self-effacing smile and asked what he would like. | Un hombre bajo y grueso se acercó con una modesta sonrisa y le preguntó que quería. |
The old-style, self-effacing, retiring, unassuming, disinterested Guru is largely a thing of the past. | El Gurú de estilo antiguo, retraído, retirado, recatado, desinteresado, es prácticamente una cosa del pasado. |
It's never easy to meet Frank Sinatra, self-effacing character, who lives Emilian Apennines, from the madding crowd. | Nunca es fácil conocer a Frank Sinatra, modesto personaje, que vive emiliano Apeninos, del mundanal ruido. |
Walking upon this planet with a self-effacing shuffle, as if stooped under the immense burden of guilt that you carry. | Caminando en este planeta con un barajar humilde, como detenido bajo una inmensa carga y culpa que cargas. |
I can't remember a time that he wasn't self-effacing—even when he was in his own final illness. | Y no puedo recordar una sola vez que no fuera humilde, aun cuando estaba en su hora final. |
This legal problem, combined with the shortage of manpower, no doubt partly explains the self-effacing performance of the Commission. | Este problema jurídico y el de la falta de personal, explican sin duda en parte la desaparición de la Comisión. |
So while Dean wouldn't last five minutes today, polite, self-effacing boys from Barnes are probably pretty well suited to such things. | Así que, mientras Dean hoy no duraría cinco minutos, educado, modestos chicos de Barnes están probablemente demasiado bien adaptados a este tipo de cosas. |
Father Renato Kizito Sesana, a Combonian who has worked in Nairobi for dozens of years, talks of a self-effacing and reserved man. | El padre comboniano Renato Kizito Sesana, que desde hace años trabaja en Nairobi, habla de un hombre esquivo y reservado. |
We wandered from one object to another fascinated and eager to find out how such a slight, self-effacing man could have created such works. | Íbamos fascinados de un objeto a otro, ávidos por descubrir cómo un hombre tan delgado y modesto podía haber creado tales obras. |
It was a terrific return to form for the self-effacing Welshman who was feeling the pressure after a lean run in the WRC. | Fue una manera fantástica de volver para el joven galés, que está sintiendo la presión de competir en el WRC. |
If I was not a self-effacing Brit, I would mention the book myself, and I would add that it's available in paperback. | Si no fuera un Británico auto-adulador, habría mencionado el libro yo mismo, y habría agregado que está disponible en tapa de papel. |
For example, perhaps you were raised to be self-effacing and not take credit for your achievements, but a core value for you is Acknowledgement. | Por ejemplo, tal vez para ti el reconocimiento sea un valor clave; sin embargo, es probable que te hayan criado para ser modesto y no presumir de tus logros. |
It is only when we truly COMMUNICATE with Him through humble, contrite, self-effacing PRAYER that we establish contact through the spiritual wavelength of His omniscient mind. | Es solo cuando verdaderamente nos COMUNICAMOS con él a través de una ORACIÓN humilde, contrita y modesta que establecemos contacto a través de la longitud de onda espiritual de Su mente omnisciente. |
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