Mr. Blankfein has already sounded humble notes.
"I mean to sound humble," he said, "but it's hard to be humble when you are great".
It did not sound like ersatz show-biz banter; it sounded humble, childlike even, as if he himself were surprised by the emotion.
Yet when he came off the ice, having contributed two goals and an assist in Canada's 5-2 victoverover the United States, Iginla sounded humble.
When he talks about himself as a commentator, he always tries to sound humble — he says he's just trying to learn the craft, and get better at it.
But if that sounded arrogant or dismissive, there were as many moments in a wide-ranging, hourlong interview when Mr. Bush sounded humble, and there were several striking confessions or glimpses of vulnerability.
In a voice that sounded humble even as it commanded attention, he lingered on the notes of the mode and melody with sustained quavers and lavish ornaments, answered by instrumental tags.
Admittedly, some of those individuals wish to sound humble, too, and might even be so; but saying IMO is a counterproductive way of conveying that impression, because we already assume that your opinion is only your opinion.
"The first time I heard him," said David Hill, chairman of the Fox Sports Television Group, "I said, 'This is the best play-by-play announcer I've ever heard".' But Buck is relentless about trying to sound humble because he is, and always will be, Jack Buck's son.
