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.
Now that they are under siege, the two proud but humbled giants of Wall Street are having to reinvent their own businesses.
But he was intrigued by Mr. Morgan's portrait of two opposites — the humbled, ill-at-ease ex-president and the ambitious, charming talk-show host — both exploiting television to further their own ends.
He has seen the outbursts over the years, born of a desire to win more NBA championships than can be counted on one hand, and he senses a new Bryant — a humbled one.
It has been painful to read some of the reports, such as The Observer's piece on Sunday, From defiance to capitulation: six days that humbled Ireland and The Independent's Ghost estates and broken lives: the human cost of the Irish crash.
While I was very happy and humbled, a thousand thoughts were running through my head.
Friends and colleagues of the governor say the Rick Perry now home in Texas is a humbled man, one who spent Friday, the day after withdrawing from the race, making phone calls to thank supporters and smooth over rough edges — a bitter pill for someone so unfamiliar with losing.
"It's a humbling and humbled book," he said.
(You can try one of the words that humbled, but also hooked, Stefan Fatsis, who started his research as an embedded reporter and became a combatant: "megachiropteran". Your time is up — it's "cinematographer").
This is the best part of a tour you're on a roadtrip, you get to play music and feel humbled when only five people show up to your show.
