Sentence examples for exactly humble from inspiring English sources

MAMA'S FOOD SHOP in the East Village is not exactly humble about its Thanksgiving menu.

Not modest, exactly; humble, in the sense of an extraordinary man who conceals the extent of his own greatness.

Mr. Fischer isn't exactly humble, but he's cocky in the way that you want your pilots, surgeons and chefs to be.

"I'm the first to admit that we've made a bunch of mistakes," is as contrite as he got, and even then he felt it necessary to swiftly follow up a few examples with the not exactly humble observation that they "have often overshadowed much of the good work we've done".

Not exactly humble origins.

His extraordinary, gravelly voiceover accompanies the story of not-exactly-humble beginnings as a manufacturer of ladies' slacks to being a "pretty-boy actor" playing Irving Thalberg in Man of a Thousand Faces opposite James Cagney; it made him dream of playing a Hollywood supremo in real life.

Redstone's attempt to play the humble-beginnings card, for instance, is compromised by the fact that he didn't exactly have humble beginnings.

While the main courses are not exactly made of humble ingredients, they are resolutely plain, with the possible exception of the peppery grilled swordfish ($15.75), which is finely textured and full of flavor.

While our initial circumstances of being broke and alone were not ideal, these factors are what made my daughter hardworking, independent and humble -- exactly what I had always wanted in a child, and exactly what I had to become to raise her.

Some of you, to put it mildly, have a rather expansive idea of what you're entitled to, which isn't exactly news to your humble columnist.

That's why Sims 3 (due for release next year) is crucial and, Humble implies, exactly why his team is trying out so many new ideas while they can.