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About his famous confidence when seated face-to-face with intimidating subjects — one interview was with Albert Speer, Hitler’s chief architect and minister of armaments — Ophuls was characteristically candid and self-effacing.

The self-effacing pioneer went about setting landmarks with a quiet humility as the first woman to:

As self-dramatizing as she is self-effacing, the character is ill-equipped for everyday life.

A studious former academic and bureaucrat, he was known for being self-effacing and always kept a low profile.

The self-effacing Tunney wasn’t incognito to a lot of his students.