Sentence examples for surprisingly humble from inspiring English sources

Worse, it isn't humbling, and U2 are a surprisingly humble band given all they've accomplished.

In person Mr. Tatum is surprisingly humble and honest, two qualities that are almost nonexistent in Hollywood.

The long-secret, surprisingly humble hideout for Britain's most precious royal baubles was uncovered by a documentary crew and made public Friday.

What they say: 'Beneath Mr Taleb's blustery rhetoric lives a surprisingly humble soul who has chosen to follow a demanding and somewhat lonely path.' The Wall Street Journal.

Striding on stage to the triumphant strains of Nessun Dorma, Donald Trump has a surprisingly humble confession to make for someone defying all the laws of political gravity.

There's the birth of the internet in room 3420 in the Stanford Research Institute, a surprisingly humble origin story accompanied by swelling strings and enthusiastic narration.

For a company with over $40 million in funding the Tumblr team is still surprisingly small, and the office is relatively humble.

In defeat, Pacquiao was humble but surprisingly defiant.

Donnelly, who is surprisingly low-key and humble in person, adds a different point about wanting his work in a gallery: hardly anyone has seen his privately sold paintings up close.

It is a surprisingly (and perhaps disingenuously) humble note from a man who was noted for the determination with which he promoted his own ideas when he was in the top job in Brussels.Yet one of the keys to Mr Delors's effectiveness as commission president was his ability to forge a creative working relationship with the heads of key European governments.

Not your regular bearded, full sleeve-tattooed bartender or a gregarious spirits ambassador who can regale you with stories for days, but two humble and surprisingly spotlight-averse women: Ivy Woo and Wai Mayleng.