Friends and colleagues of the governor say the Rick Perry now home in Texas is a humbled man, one who spent Friday, the day after withdrawing from the race, making phone calls to thank supporters and smooth over rough edges — a bitter pill for someone so unfamiliar with losing.
IT is literally a trillion-dollar question: What will a humbled, reined-in Fannie Mae, the nation's biggest mortgage provider, mean to the economy, the financial markets, interest rates and housing in America?
Immediately after the electoral debacle, ambitious survivors in the ranks of a humbled party purport to explain why it lost.
Act as if,' " Milch told me, speaking, as he occasionally does, not in the voice of a literature professor but as a humbled believer in twelve-step orthodoxy.
The Sunday night "carpet cleaning", and the (predictable?) return of Joan provided a giddy finale – but the best scenes were those of a humbled but back-in-the-saddle Don having to pay the dues he owes to Roger, Pete and Peggy.
So, here is a humbled Aussie in an Ashes T-shirt.
LAS VEGAS — Four times, in a halting, broken voice, a humbled O. J. Simpson said Friday, "I'm sorry".
Then Republicans seized control of the House in the 2010 midterm elections; a humbled president was immediately forced into a series of fiscal negotiations with the empowered opposition.
Some have welcomed the prospect of a humbled Europe – in the midst of nationalising swathes of its own financial sector – no longer being able to impose IMF-style structural adjustment on developing countries.
But the knees soon began to creak, the tendons stretched and occasionally tore, and eventually a player who once measured himself against the greatest is today a humbled third option in Seattle, behind Gary Payton and Vin Baker.
