Sentence examples for humble gesture from inspiring English sources

"Can you imagine a more humble gesture?

Are the photos a humble gesture or a publicity stunt?

Supposedly a humble gesture, it smacks of classic rocker egotism.

"Don Giovanni," which is many people's choice for the greatest opera ever written, ends with something like a humble gesture: it dissolves its own aura of greatness.

"The humble gesture of tearing paper" was the starting point for this show, which started with white skirt suits, each of which had a section torn out and replaced with a different texture: paper, first, then lame velvet.

A week ago, as agents of Vladimir Putin's regime made every crude effort to provoke civil war in eastern Ukraine, Sergei Guriev, a leading Russian economist, who had felt compelled to flee Moscow for Paris last year, made a similarly humble gesture.

He is the antithesis of Serra, a man who made humble gestures and modest marks immense.

His pastoral presence and humble gestures have made him wildly popular among American Catholics, according to a recent Pew survey.

Jonah Lomu was taking England and Co apart at the 1995 Rugby World Cup with breathtakingly powerful performances on the field and humble gestures off it.

As the theme calls for deceptively humble gestures, some of the work is a matter of precisely relocating pre-existing elements: Hondartza Fraga presents an A5 drawing of a blank globe, while Joe Fletcher Orr simply contributes a SAD (seasonal affective disorder) lamp.

It was a humble, quiet gesture from Bruce to say thanks to President Obama, the staff, and their families.