Sentence examples for humble image from inspiring English sources
As the Sotheby's auction blurb noted, the gaunt stick figure represents "both a humble image of an ordinary man, and a potent symbol of humanity".
Yet even when projecting a humble image in those ads, Mr. Foley and Mr. Lamont do not run away from their business successes.
In keeping with the humble image that she likes to portray, the German chancellor said that she found Mr Schröder's choice of the four-metre black desk "strange".
This year, however, a more humble image of the C.E.O. was presented to the American public: that of the hapless dupe.
But go to Modern Art Oxford and you will see that it is a humble image, so small that the bone-white graves are barely discernible in the sepulchral half-light.
For the news conference that followed, Mr. Obama took pains to project a cheerful, humble image to a world still alternately enraged and befuddled by a financial crisis that originated with American subprime loans.
Elsewhere, too, humble images are powerful.
Cockles provoke strong opinions in people, but our customers really do like them.' Goward thinks he may have a solution to the humble cockle's image problem, and wonders whether we shouldn't simply rename it, so as to dupe people into thinking it is the same as the pretty little vongole they scoffed with a bowl of spaghetti on holiday: step forward the British clam.
When asked whether he was indeed the shy, humble person his image suggested, he stood up and unbuttoned his jacket to reveal a colossal Vegas-style gold belt buckle.
The Miami Rice Pudding Company, in downtown Denville, looks as humble as the images its namesake dish conjures.
