Sentence examples for humbling perspective from inspiring English sources

It's a humbling perspective for anyone who fancies themselves a bit of a smarty-pants.

It was there, high atop Desolate Ridge, that I came face to face with Mount Rainier from the north, which is a humbling perspective as you take in all its grand dimensions, the stony outcrops and melting snowfields that form waterfalls hundreds of feet high, a different mountain, it seemed, than the one seen from the other side.

What also struck me is that there are no borders between countries, and this humbling perspective thankfully extends to the research field of satellite sensing where national boundaries lose their potency.

It's a humbling perspective to take on one's agency, and one that may "taint one's own view of one's moral self as an achievement" (2004: 246), and make one feel that "indignation on one's part would be self-righteous and indulgent" (2004: 254).

He is sure, though, that Africa will put it all into a humbling new perspective.

It can be very humbling to realize that other people have a perspective that is just as valid as yours, and that everyone around is also filled with worries, doubts, and hopes.

She's addressed the SNL snafu that ruined her career with the perspective of time, calling it "the most humbling experience of [her] life".

"It's humbling," Mr. Belanger told The Arizona Republic, "and it puts things into perspective".

This is humbling for a civilian who has been drilled in just the opposite perspective.

It is a cliché, of course, that traveling gives you perspective on your little life; that the desert or the ocean or mountains or skyscrapers are humbling, but what else can one say?

"Very humbling," he said.