Sentence examples for note of humility from inspiring English sources

A note of humility?

Johnson, known for being brash, sounded a note of humility.

The Alabama Legislature opened its session on March 1 on a note of humility and compassion.

On the question of how he applies those principles, Mr. Obama sounded a note of humility.

But whatever the story, the chief's note conveys a note of humility that has been missing so far.

Byron's poem commemorating the day weighs his accomplishment against Leander's and ends on a note of humility: "'Twere hard to say who fared the best/ Sad mortals!

In fact, somewhat paradoxically, there are notes of humility creeping into their giving at precisely the moment when it is glorying in its massive scale.

The closing Arietta opened on a note of gentle humility.

"I'm not half as brilliant as he is," he said, and there is no note of false humility, no hollow twang of irony in his voice.

Excellent advice, in any field of endeavor, and a key to the lovely note of comic humility with which the natural-born bumptiousness of the students is tempered and soothed, and the movie prevented from coarsening into a brawl.

But he was adopting a tone of humility.