effacing

Example Sentences

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In “Gatz,” the novel’s narrative texture was conveyed through zany approximation — the troupe finding Fitzgerald not by effacing itself but by embracing its eccentric difference.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2025

Classical realism is sometimes accused of effacing its own literary labor; the cost of Tokarczuk’s flâneurial freedom is that it effaces the labor of travel.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 24, 2018

Apart from all this, maybe the most potent force effacing gay culture is an understandable, if still covert, impulse to jettison the trauma of the queer legacy.

From Slate • Jun. 25, 2018

Wonderfully, he did the opposite, focusing all his attention on his three leading ladies and often effacing himself in his partnering of them, while happily embodying the music’s jazz rhythms and poetically vernacular spirit.

From New York Times • Jan. 20, 2016

Then I saw a shadow flit across her face, and she drew back against the wall, effacing herself, as a step sounded outside and Maxim came into the room.

From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier