Sentence examples for humble object from inspiring English sources

However unwittingly, Mr. Prince has also tapped into a minor groundswell of support for the humble object.

If there were no penny, he would simply turn to some other humble object that tends to be wasted.

And, yet, Weston's reputation might better be tied to another humble object rather than to the lowly toilet: the green pepper.

The humble object bears the backstory of its creation (which may have remained for the most part unknown to the consumer).

A cider tankard with a vernacular handle, a pleasingly humble object, is made in Plymouth and becomes the first piece of true porcelain ever made in England.

In an Atlantic City hotel washroom, for example, light from a window shines down on one in a row of white porcelain sinks, transforming a humble object into a glowing, sacramental vessel.

Immensely wealthy people whose hearts are melted by small, humble objects are a known type.

You might put these humble objects in the category of Fluxus art: poetic finds of a connoisseur of the ordinary.

Her drawings from this period are of humble objects — chairs, stoves, frying pans — as well as of bucolic scenes.

What marks his art, and particularly the works in this show, is the ephemeral character of the humble objects depicted.

They show not just how she views the humble objects that furnish her mind, but how the artist actually thinks.