By abandoning the cultivation of tobacco, he stepped outside the tobacco culture, surrendering his status as planter, crop master and lord of the soil, and becoming instead a farmer a rich farmer, to be sure, though the term had, to older Virginian ears, a humbler sound.
This humble message sounded like a sensible way to reunite a nation after a divisive and often bitter campaign.
This astonishingly humble repast sounds to me like a story out of I. L. Peretz or Sholom Aleichem, but then isn't it the disillusioned who are most in need of someone or something to idealize?
"I mean to sound humble," he said, "but it's hard to be humble when you are great".
When he talks about himself as a commentator, he always tries to sound humble — he says he's just trying to learn the craft, and get better at it.
Admittedly, some of those individuals wish to sound humble, too, and might even be so; but saying IMO is a counterproductive way of conveying that impression, because we already assume that your opinion is only your opinion.
Putting the fate of a battalion of men in the hands of a humble canine may sound like madness, but carefully trained messenger dogs played an important part in the First World War, as communication on the Western Front was frequently rendered impossible by heavy bombardments.
"The first time I heard him," said David Hill, chairman of the Fox Sports Television Group, "I said, 'This is the best play-by-play announcer I've ever heard".' But Buck is relentless about trying to sound humble because he is, and always will be, Jack Buck's son.
A very humble little combo sound is what we ended up with and that really worked".
They sound humbled and thrilled.
