Sentence examples for humble distance from inspiring English sources

"His acting and manner leave all competition at a very humble distance".

"His acting and manner leave all competition at a very humble distance". The appeal was across the board: the famously severe lord chancellor Lord Eldon remarked that "never, never, did I see a leg of mutton stolen with such superhumanly sublime impudence as by that man" – impressive expert evidence.

Bernard Ebbers, who built WorldCom from a humble Mississippi long-distance firm into a telecommunications titan, was convicted Tuesday of engineering the colossal accounting fraud that sank the company.

It's some distance from the humble origins of the Ugg Boot, so-called in the first place because they were so conspicuously ugly.

For an executive making more than $2 million a year selling energy, Mr. Bryson has come some distance from deep and humble roots planted in the environmental movement.

In order to get on in what was then a rather grand, aristocratic party, she started to distance herself from her humble origins, marrying a successful businessman, Denis Thatcher, who financed her political career.

The students at Art and Design, many of whom traveled long distances from humbler parts of the city, and their teachers felt unwelcome.

"Overcoming individualism and rivalry is a humble and precious sign for those who have distanced themselves from the faith or who are indifferent".

Some of her father's relatives say that Columba has kept her distance because she is embarrassed about her humble roots.

The shepherds keep a respectful distance in front of a stable so humble and broken down that it places this mystical moment outside all human comfort.

They include room service to-go menus, fancy food courts and globe-trotting gourmet markets, distancing grab-and-go food from its humble origins in vending machines.