self-effacing, thickset, amorous, V-J Day, Chest-beating

On V-J Day, Frank Sinatra appeared, along with Marlene Dietrich, Jimmy Durante, Dinah Shore, Bette Davis, Lionel Barrymore, Cary Grant and many others. But the most striking feature of the show was its tone of self-effacement and humility. The allies had, on that very day, completed one of the noblest military victories in the history of humanity. And yet there was no chest-beating. Nobody was erecting triumphal arches.

'Report on Myself'

By GRÉGOIRE BOUILLIER
Reviewed by CAROLINE WEBER With self-effacing humor, Grégoire Bouillier describes his amorous obsessions.

His voice grew louder as he recalled the bloody suppression and aftermath of the protests. I became nervous. Yu, a short, thickset man with bulging eyes, could easily pass unnoticed in a crowd of Chinese peasants and workers, but he does not exactly strive for self-effacement.


"Whatever advances American manufacturing has made in the last 30 to 40 years," Drucker said, "we owe to Joe Juran and to his untiring, steady, patient, self-effacing work."



Chest-beating is commonly used to illustrate that the subject is displaying
dominant or aggressive behavior by comparing them.

am・o・rous

━━ a. 好色の; 恋愛の; なまめかしい.
am・or・ist　━━ n. 好色家; 恋愛文学作家.
am・o・rous・ly　━━ ad.
am・o・rous・ness　━━ n.

thickset Hide phonetics
adjective
describes a person, especially a man, whose body is wide across the shoulders and chest and who is short; stocky:
A thickset young man appeared in the doorway.


self-effacing Hide phonetics
adjective ━━ a. 控えめな.
not making yourself noticeable; not trying to get the attention of other people; modest:
The captain was typically self-effacing when questioned about the team's successes, giving credit to the other players.


efface (REMOVE) Hide phonetics
verb [T] FORMAL
to remove something intentionally:
The whole country had tried to efface the memory of the old dictatorship.


efface yourself (MODEST) verb [R] FORMAL
to behave in a modest way and treat as unimportant the good things that you have achieved, often because you lack confidence