Sentence examples for slightly humbled from inspiring English sources

The spindly maps and digressions are delightful, perfectly bringing to life Spivet's eclectic cartography, while the writing is that unashamedly confident, sure-of-its-own-blinding-intelligence brand of American fiction that I normally both adore and feel slightly humbled by.

The two were slightly humbled and humiliated before HHH launched into a tirade about nobody being able to step up to the plate, and that WWE would fail without them.

"The main thing I feel is absolute gratitude that the people I'm working with are so good," a sleepy and slightly humbled Mr. Folds said about his 24-hour excursion.

Bishop's role as a pest controller started in 2005 in slightly humbler surroundings, when Ken Livingstone decided to rid Trafalgar Square of pigeons.

Maecenas felt that, though a knight (slightly humbler than a senator but basically a nonpolitical member of the privileged class), his lineage and power overtopped any senator's, and he refused a career as one.

At a slightly humbler level, it is always possible to find brave clerics and small institutions who rein in rather than encourage the demons of inter-communal hate.But for peace-minded Catholics in the heart of Bosnia, there is now a double challenge, as one old Bosnian friend explained to me.

"What's nice about the players," the Sunderland manager Mick McCarthy said later, "is that a lot of them come from slightly humbler backgrounds in terms of who they have played for and they are all very hungry for themselves individually as well as collectively.

The extraordinary bread, craggy and chewy, slightly sour; somehow humbling.

All of which seems to have made this combative commentator slightly, well, humble.

He says the BBC needs to be more transparent and "slightly more humble".

I shot this photo series to give room to a slightly more humble religion.