Sentence examples for humbling about from inspiring English sources

Al Pacino, right, has purchased the movie rights to "The Humbling," about an aging, declining stage actor who finds hope of renewal through a younger woman.

Less successful were Philip Roth's latest short novel, The Humbling, about an aging actor who tries to cure his stage fright with sexual addiction, and the book-length work by gifted storyteller Lorrie Moore, A Gate at the Stairs; though widely praised, the work unaccountably read like a first novel that was some decades into revision.

He's very humble about that".

We're very humble about it.

" Knapp is humble about his teaching.

But he is humble about the achievement.

"But he was so humble about it," Washington said.

They can be far from humble about this.

"Mr. Bogle was very humble about it," Mr. Warren says.

"There's something very humble about it," he said.

Teixeira found it difficult to be humble about his performance.