Sentence examples for an expression of humility from inspiring English sources

This apparently was the original meaning of kneeling before it became an expression of humility.

Her style is, again, an expression of humility; of clothes worn not for her sake, but our own.

Though the companies tried to project the move as a bold stroke, for both AT&T and British Telecom yesterday's announcement was in some ways an expression of humility.

He tells his own story, a little autobiography beginning with an expression of humility and collectivism: "There are many like me". This is perhaps already a cue to imagine vaster populations, displaced by war or political cataclysm.

Mikael Wood of Los Angeles Times noted, "What left the deepest impression was something far more elemental: Beyoncé's ability to make self-aggrandizement seem like an expression of humility... [Her] ambition seemed in proportion with her fans' expectations; she came by the sense of scale honestly".

("We make the paint" is a popular expression of humility).

But as a succinct expression of humility, empathy, self-knowledge and common humanity, it isn't half bad.

Her insistent ordinariness is an expression not of humility but of egotism, the certitude that simply being herself, in whatever unfinished condition, will always be good enough.

Just as my family couldn't fund every item on our wish list, and had to live within our means as well as save for the future, I felt we needed to do that for the state". Her insistent ordinariness is an expression not of humility but of egotism, the certitude that simply being herself, in whatever unfinished condition, will always be good enough.

In his book "Biblical Prose Prayer," from 1983, Professor Greenberg examined every instance of people praying in the Bible and concluded that their prayers were what he called "a vehicle of humility, an expression of un-self-sufficiency". "Many of those who prayed in the Bible were commoners; you don't have to be a priest in the Bible to pray," Professor Sarna said.

Mr. Rands found the expression of humility endearing.