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How to use humility in a sentence

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The paucity of humility shown by the Government in the face of such antipathy is stomach-churning.
Whatever the reason, his public persona seems guarded and calculating and his repeated protestations of humility usually fall flat.
This isn't so bad if the judge respects stare decisis, sticks to existing law, and approaches the job with humility and restraint.
The great thing about human problems is that they bring out compassion and humility.
Every conversation was interrupted with oleaginous humility and victim-like whining.
Deconstruction theory and the decline of the omniscient narrator demonstrate a newfound humility.
One simply comes to recognise and understand oneself better, and that is a form of humility.
As we contemplated his huge stogie on that fine August afternoon, a moment of humility alighted upon him.
But this contemporary silence stems from more than just humility in the face of the great orations of the past.
Yet, he has always carried the Indian badge with pride and his genius with humility.
Even the codiscoverer of the DNA double helix, Sir Francis Crick, displayed humility that is totally lacking in the present day know-alls.
Such humility filled him, that when he was reunited with his family he cast aside his crown, denting it on one side.
As Grant moved through his week of mea culpa, he gradually adopted a position of wry humility.
He seemed genuinely happy and pleased that so many people were out to see the band, and showed the crowd humility and pleasure.
Somebody claiming to detect a divine design in respect of himself may phrase the idea in terms of humility, even submissiveness.
Removing one's footwear before entering a home or a temple before worship denotes a sign of respect, humility and submissiveness.
We have much to learn from our medieval forebears, but we cannot turn to them for an ideal or example of scholarly humility or subservience.
But that kind of clarification of my understanding of biblical teaching for evangelical groups has usually been a preface to a plea for humility.
He soon became known as a man of profound faith who emphasized charity, humility, and above all, the hard labor necessary to feed one's family.
Babu's weapon is humility, a rarity in these times of overnight celebrities.
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Examples from Classical Literature
She particularly insists on this virtue of humility, which is always the weak side of the Institution.
An expression of the deepest humility and cringe was on his battered countenance.
Enthusiastically and yet with all humility for I have no red carpet to run down the stair.
Then he was no longer to value the humility and modesty attached to selflessness.
The gifts she needed from the Holy Ghost were those of hiddenness, patience, humility, conformity to God's will.
His humility, that is, was precisely an example of moral vitality and insight rather than of moral awkwardness and enfeeblement.
To magnify her greatness, the humility of courtly adulation merged in the ecstasies of Platonic love.
On that day humility will be as a precious gift and poverty as a peace offering.
His love of reputation is characteristically Greek, and contrasts with the humility of Socrates.
Let us pray for unction, which is the marrowfat of humor, and for humility, which is the badge of manhood.
That something hidden away in my nature, like a treasure in a field, is humility.
This thought should imbue a man of science with humility rather than with pride.
On the contrary, the imagists have the greatest admiration for the past, and humility towards it.
It would be a sorry proof of the humility I am extolling, were I to ask for angel's wings to overfly my own human nature.
The dignity a parson derives from the lawn sleeves and square cap of his diocesan will never endanger his humility.
He hung his head and stood before her in the deep humility of a chidden child.
He returned to Trinitarianism, and a singular and childlike humility became one of his most marked characteristics.
In the flowing of love, in the adoration of humility, there is no question of continuance.
The patience and the humility of the face she loved so well was a better lesson to Jo than the wisest lecture, the sharpest reproof.
At every step she had to purchase silence by groveling humility.
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