"But when you get a load of Oscar nominations, and you look down the list of great directors who have won in the past, it's really humbling.
The humbling of Murdoch Senior and Junior this week marked the end of that fear.
His insight is humbling, deeply grained, outrageously perceptive and full of a signature humour.
No one with a human sense of history can fail to share Ireland's pain at its humbling by the markets.
The story itself contains a more detailed appreciation of Spain's achievement, with the paper speaking of a "single generation bringing about a radical change for the good of the game", starting with their 1-0 victory against Germany in the final of Euro 2008 and carried through to the last World Cup and then to the 4-0 humbling of Italy in Kiev.
PD Having been unceremoniously dumped out of the FA Cup by League One side Oldham in a five-goal thriller at Boundary Park in the fourth round last season, it's probably safe to assume that Liverpool will be out for revenge for that particular humbling when they entertain the Latics at Anfield.
Scaling up myself and the business has been incredibly humbling.
This privilege was truly humbling.
And lastly, given the record vote on May 5th for Mr Chirac and the humbling of Mr Le Pen, they surely stood for a majority view, not a minority one.Yet those who are eager to place them alongside the soixante-huitards in the political pantheon should bide their time.
The triumph of democracy, in the humbling of a party that had ruled for 18 years and, for those who cared to notice, the triumph of Mr Portillo, the Conservatives' putative next leader, in maintaining his dignity amid humiliation they immortalised that night in Enfield Southgate.
America's Department of Justice (DoJ) was faulted for taking its foot off Swiss throats after the humbling of UBS.
