Sentence examples for humble works from inspiring English sources

Finely controlled glazes and enamel polychromy, which required the use of kaolin clay and controlled high firing, were still technically beyond Japanese capabilities; but the high regard in which the elegantly simple Chinese ware was held caused connoisseurs to elevate the status of once humble works and to commission Japanese interpretations of continental ware in Japanese kilns.

These humble works question the limits of authenticity.

And for sheer poetry, Nazareth's frequently humble works seem in poignant dialogue with the gently political resistance found in the works of Felix Gonzalez-Torres.

"These are humble works, but they are made by our own hands, and we make them not to do damage but to give life -- to share the sacred good that is water," Maudilia said earnestly.

This humble working farm leads by example.

Might they have been – ahem! – influenced by my humble work?

In the process, they traded in professional jobs in government for more humble work.

Better, he said, to stick with "daily, humble work within the framework of a profession".

This is humble work, but beneath that humility lays a percolating creative intelligence.

"My parents were humble working folk," he writes, but the stock phrase is barely adequate.

"We just have to be patient, try to stay humble, work hard, and hopefully the moves we made will work".