Sentence examples for without self-importance from inspiring English sources

He was without self-importance.

Without self-importance, the music covers huge amounts of ground.

He was also kind, generous, and without self-importance.

He was a man of remarkable modesty and generosity, quite without self-importance.

If Boulez was intelligent enough to know his own value, he was also kind and without self-importance.

For a sample, they could listen to Ernie Johnson and Ron Darling, over at TBS, who had done the Cubs' home-game loss to the Nationals at Wrigley Field earlier in the day without self-importance.

And it's laudable that he approaches his past work without an exaggerated self-importance.

It can be percussive and syncopated or sweeping and anthemic, but it's always vigorous, without the sodden self-importance that's the downside of some English rock.

"For the first time in my conscious life I was looking at myself in my human nakedness," he later wrote, "without the support of revolutionary hopes, without the faith in a revolutionary future — without the sense of self-importance conferred by the role I would play in remaking the world. . . .

Allow your self-image to be one of self-love and self-importance without being arrogant.

What you want is the sweet spot that allows you to talk about yourself confidently without tipping over into self-importance.