Sentence examples for acts of humility from inspiring English sources

At age 20, Webber dulled the hatchets with postgame acts of humility and remorse after calling the Timeout to Remember in 1993.

In a young papacy defined by his acts of humility, calls for mercy and concern for the poor, Francis has won over many who live firmly in other faiths.

"It would be an act of humility".

It was an act of humility and contrition, and certainly Mr. Mayer's only option.

An act of humility as we travail "the inferno of the living".

Was that public act of humility enough to get you back in the queue for an ethically sourced skinny latte?

"In my view it was not an act of humility, but an act of supreme arrogance and manipulation," Dr. Frist said.

Talk story about the death of Mother Teresa... Her last act of humility was to die in the shadow of Diana, Princess of Wales.

"ON THE afternoon of 29 May 1453, the Sultan entered the long-desired city…he dismounted and bent to pick up a handful of earth, which he poured over his turban as an act of humility before God.

Supplicatio, in Roman religion, a rite or series of rites celebrated either as a thanksgiving to the gods for a great victory or as an act of humility after a national calamity.

Although Ms Hughes-Hallett valiantly (but ultimately without conviction) teases out a few timorous examples to the contrary, it is almost impossible to believe in any spontaneous act of humility or empathy in the man.