Some call this a generational "choice phobia," but it may also be a statement of supreme humility.
The show of acceptance, inclusion and compassion was just a hint at what was to come, as the pope has continued to make statements about the importance of humility for the church, interfaith understanding as well as the importance of a greater role for women in the church.
The new manager was welcomed with a statement that showed a glimpse of humility in an otherwise uncommunicative (Duchatelet hasn't seen a live game since October 2014) and stubborn regime.
The minimal support for statement 36 that scientists should 'speak truth to power' in their policy advice indicated some degree of humility (see also statement 32).
Most were vague and the statements to be remembered are chiefly his expression of humility and his defiant, chin-out defence of what he called competitive journalism.
Rather than show any smidge of humility or shame, Cosby's camp, including his spokesman and his wife Camille, released statements attacking the judge, prosecutors, and media, for colluding to ruin Cosby's life.
There are few expressions of humility or openness, even of the sort that Cardinal Bernard Law of Boston managed to make clearly in a statement that welcomed the declaration enthusiastically.
That was the Trump brand of humility.
But he retains an aura of humility.
