Sentence examples for humble explanation from inspiring English sources

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She also includes Chomsky's answer to her question about whether he has ever changed anything: a characteristically humble explanation that no one person - not even Martin Luther King - can or ever has by themselves changed anything.

I guess the wind was blowing today," Kendrick said, a humble explanation Rollins, listening from the adjoining locker, couldn't let go.

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TODD J. CARTER, director of investment banking at Robertson Stephens, a unit of FleetBoston Financial, offers a humbling explanation.

But Mr. Orner, ever humble, has another explanation for his short bursts of text.

As we listened to an explanation of how the humble sea hare (– a mollusc we'd seen on our reef walks) – might hold clues for treating dementia, a group of students walked noisily past.

"I want to see what you see," he says, expressing a desire that is at once humble and grandiose but also a perfect explanation of how a boy like Jack O'Brien might have grown up into a filmmaker like Mr. Malick.

Whatever the explanation, residents worry that Lexington's humble days may be numbered.

But the truth is most Hollywood books are unrepentantly lame, a few racy anecdotes strung together about strategically mentioned movie stars, along with an explanation of how-I-ended-up-here-from-my-humble-beginnings.

"The principle of the thing" is the typical explanation offered by the warring parties: on the eve of a closing, even a humble medicine cabinet can become the locus of a nasty dispute.

The humbling of Goodwin by taking his knighthood will, then, be a popular move and the official explanation that he had "brought the honours system into disrespect" may be applauded.

Humble, Texas.

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