Sentence examples for ever so humbly from inspiring English sources
But there was McEwing talking softly and ever so humbly about conquering Johnson and helping the Mets burst past the Arizona Diamondbacks, 7-6, to complete the three-game sweep at Shea Stadium yesterday.
Nowadays we tend to assume that getting dressed in the morning, be it ever so humbly in jeans and a T-shirt, has no higher purpose than displaying our favorite image of ourselves.
Zuckerberg's version is to take the form of a 200-acre private municipality adjacent to Facebook's Menlo Park headquarters, masterplanned by long-time collaborator Frank Gehry and ever-so-humbly dubbed "Zee Town".
Asked if he would have fared better than Kuerten had the tables been turned and he had needed to finish another match before the final, Hewitt ever-so-humbly said: "I hope I would have gotten more than two games". Hewitt had to go some to outdo his 6-1, 6-2 thrashing of England's Tim Henman here last year, a match that marked the most lopsided final of the year on the ATP tour, 15 games.
If politicians were genuinely serious about engaging the young and disenfranchised, they could do significantly worse than learn from the folk who are out there, every day, at the coal face, developing new products and services to cater for the changing needs of ever more choosy consumers, working hard in an increasingly noisy world to win hearts and minds, and doing so humbly.
Was he — so unmanned, so obsequious, so humbly offering his services — reassuring?
And because it yields so humbly to such embellishments as seasoned breadcrumbs or a buttery mustard.
Ever so slightly avuncular?
