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  • It is always immensely humbling for we hacks to be in the presence of the Chancellor, given his facility for talking expertly about, apparently, everything under the sun.
  • Yet this is not all: they are proud still, and therefore they do not seek unto God (Ps.x. 4), or, if they do cry unto him, therefore he does not give answer, for he hears only the desire of the humble (Ps.x. 17) and delivers those by his providence whom he has first by his grace prepared and made fit for deliverance, which we are not if, under humbling afflictions, our hearts remain unhumbled and our pride unmortified. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
  • It was truly humbling to be in such great company and to place second after only six months in the blogging biz.
  • I had a vague recollection of saying something of that sort, but to think that a patient was being helped by some throwaway remark of mine was quite humbling.
  • To descend into Olduvai Gorge - back two million years in time - is humbling.
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  • Leading hawks within the Bush administration are gloating over their humbling of Europe and are opposed to any concessions to America's rivals.
  • It's like he was slowly coming to the realization that the grand finale of the magnificent journey had come to this shockingly humbling ending.
  • They kept very proudly together, though they were of different lengths: the outermost, the thumbling, was short and fat; he walked out in front of the ranks, and only had one joint in his back, and could only make a single bow; but he said that if he were hacked off a man, that man was useless for service in war. The Darning-needle
  • Drunken hecklers were a different matter: the only way to handle them was to unleash a volley of abuse, humbling them with a few crushing put-downs.
  • Few sights in life can compare to the humbling effect of gazing across the unknown depths and distances of the ocean. Christianity Today
  • From one humbling experience pressing patties for more than 50 guests the next day, and a little research, I’ve found that the most common mistake when shaping patties is to press too hard in a quest to get discs as consistent as you’d get at a drive-thru window. Household Objects That Can Shape Hamburger Patties | Lifehacker Australia
  • After the president's midterms humbling, the US media envision horse trading, vetoes – and a legislative logjam Barack Obama facing two years of political gridlock
  • England shocker is no longer a surpriseEngland had another of their humbling moments at Wembley on Tuesday, shocking the nation with their inability to even look like beating a fledgling football country with a population of just 670,000. Roberto Mancini is showing the bottle needed to be a success
  • If anything, the humbling defeat should serve notice that improvements are urgently required. Times, Sunday Times
  • The implications were instantly absorbed and a humbling apology was delivered. Times, Sunday Times
  • If anything, the humbling defeat should serve notice that improvements are urgently required. Times, Sunday Times
  • He found studying Greek art and architecture humbling, realising that all those years ago people knew so much about proportion and symmetry.
  • The implications were instantly absorbed and a humbling apology was delivered. Times, Sunday Times
  • He found the huge outpouring of love humbling. Times, Sunday Times
  • A thief steals the oxen and, hearing the thumbling's angry voice, takes him to be a ghost.
  • We feel immensely proud at reaching this milestone and it's also been quite humbling to receive so many messages of congratulation.
  • The pleasure he takes in humbling the proud and exalting those of low degree (v. 6): The Lord lifts up the meek, who abase themselves before him, and whom men trample on; but the wicked, who conduct themselves insolently towards God and scornfully towards all mankind, who lift up themselves in pride and folly, he casteth down to the ground, sometimes by very humbling providences in this world, at furthest in the day when their faces shall be filled with everlasting shame. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
  • A further challenge is the humbling fact that the original cloud is billions of times wider and a hundred sextillion (100 x [10.sup.21]) times less dense than the star the models are trying to simulate.
  • While Colorado's mountainous terrain offers innumerable beautiful sights that leave one longing for more and never satiated, its magnitude of awe and grandeur also invoke a humbling effect on mankind.
  • In this case the team of student rocketeers would share a similar, if humbling, experience with many professional rocket designers and engineers: a launch vehicle failure.
  • It was a humbling experience for the England bowlers, but it is the batsmen who will have to exceed themselves. Times, Sunday Times
  • Could there be a more humbling realization than that one is consubstantial with one's enemy, or that one is indebted to one's enemy?
  • But for me it was humbling for a more prosaic reason. Times, Sunday Times
  • Shooting offhand is a humbling experience, it's much more fun to shoot tiny groups but it has little to do with hunting unless you're out west with your rifle laid on a bedroll. Too Much Accuracy?
  • For a man who never quite seemed humble, though he often gibed about humility, it was a moving - and humbling - final effect.
  • It was one of the most humbling experiences of my life. THE DOG LISTENER: Learning the Language of your Best Friend
  • He said to a godly minister, who went to see him a little before his death, "I have been a rude stunkard all my life, and now by this pain the Lord is humbling me to make me as a lamb, before he take me to himself. Biographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies) A Brief Historical Account of the Lives, Characters, and Memorable Transactions of the Most Eminent Scots Worthies
  • It's a humbling sight and begs the question: where does blogging sit alongside hard news and investigatory reporting? Times, Sunday Times
  • It was one of the most humbling experiences of my life. THE DOG LISTENER: Learning the Language of your Best Friend
  • It was a humbling experience for the England bowlers, but it is the batsmen who will have to exceed themselves. Times, Sunday Times
  • Such a swift and humbling defeat could have easily dampened my spirits, but something hooked me in during those few hazy seconds of combat.
  • But for me it was humbling for a more prosaic reason. Times, Sunday Times
  • Can it be for the puir body M’Durk’s health to major about in the tartans like a tobacconist’s sign in a frosty morning, wi’ his poor wizzened houghs as blue as a blawort? — weel I wot he is a humbling spectacle. Saint Ronan's Well
  • It was one of the most humbling experiences of my life. THE DOG LISTENER: Learning the Language of your Best Friend
  • ‘My fascination for skyscapes has developed subsequently and attempting to catch those natural kaleidoscopic patterns in vibrant rich colours is a humbling experience for me,’ he avers.
  • Later the thumbling flies to Africa aboard a stork.
  • Despite his humbling defeat for the governorship of California in 1962, the latter had made a remarkable comeback.
  • It was a humbling experience for the England bowlers, but it is the batsmen who will have to exceed themselves. Times, Sunday Times
  • If anything, the humbling defeat should serve notice that improvements are urgently required. Times, Sunday Times
  • To experience the enervating, exasperating and humbling feeling that comes from trying to plumb the depths of this most amazing subject we call mathematics, is to transcend the limits of human capability and fortify oneself against the buffets of life.
  • The implications were instantly absorbed and a humbling apology was delivered. Times, Sunday Times
  • If anything, the humbling defeat should serve notice that improvements are urgently required. Times, Sunday Times
  • It is humbling to remember that the two lives saved that day weren't due to fancy new techniques or expensive modern technology.
  • They are always there for me and it is humbling to realise how good your real friends are to you.
  • It was a humbling experience for the England bowlers, but it is the batsmen who will have to exceed themselves. Times, Sunday Times
  • How humbling is that I am both an author and a marketer and I still seek outside collaborative help when it comes to creating a stellar landing page. Peggy McColl: How to Write a Successful Sales Landing Page
  • It felt both humbling and a bit nostalgic to lecture, in God's providence to 240 ministerial students in the place I was once called to serve.
  • Standing next to an ancient tree that has lived through centuries of history is truly humbling and awe-inspiring. Times, Sunday Times
  • It was one of the most humbling experiences of my life. THE DOG LISTENER: Learning the Language of your Best Friend
  • The implications were instantly absorbed and a humbling apology was delivered. Times, Sunday Times
  • When he put George down for the count in the eighth, a man hitherto regarded as an ogre was reduced to humbling mortality at the feet of boxing's greatest magician.
  • The old veck began to make sort of chumbling shooms - "wuf waf wof" - so Georgie let go of holding his goobers apart and just let him have one in the toothless rot with his ringy fist, and that made the old veck start moaning a lot then, then out comes the blood, my brothers, real beautiful. Where's the show?
  • Likewise was their garrison here, and their officials lived simple lives, five times daily humbling themselves before God when the muezzin's call wailed across the sky. The Boat of a Million Years
  • Cycling through the swamp paths and eyeballing an alligator, a creature so suited to its environment that it hasn't changed in 50 million years, is a humbling experience.
  • It was a humbling experience for the England bowlers, but it is the batsmen who will have to exceed themselves. Times, Sunday Times
  • Standing face-to-face with an expert karateka like Ushiro Sensei was an enlightening and humbling experience.
  • The only thing better and more humbling is trading "how I got arrested stories" ... ( Ccfinlay: Last week, my ibook began to crash frequ
  • The implications were instantly absorbed and a humbling apology was delivered. Times, Sunday Times
  • But for me it was humbling for a more prosaic reason. Times, Sunday Times
  • Working in an interracial coalition can be a difficult and humbling experience, but also a sweet one.
  • It is a common occurrence to see the fans of baseball's Tampa Bay Devil Rays shut their eyes, either in silent prayer or to escape the sight of another humbling defeat.
  • In this hatred he confused the innocent with the guilty, detesting all the great nobles and taking a delight in humbling any of them he did not exile. Memoirs of Madame Vigée Lebrun
  • What she found most humbling in his work was his analysis of the degrading effect of the shame and humiliation, which infect coloniser and colonised alike. Claire Denis: 'For me, film-making is a journey into the impossible'
  • It was one of the most humbling experiences of my life. THE DOG LISTENER: Learning the Language of your Best Friend
  • Sadly, I learned that watching your father fight for his life, while very scary and humbling, is not nearly as scary as watching your child fight for his life. Lessons Learned @ Attack of the Redneck Mommy
  • It's a humbling thought that we may have mastery over the land, but the majority of the Earth is a realm where no human can tread…
  • His stoicism and bravery are deeply humbling. The Sun
  • When Tom is identified as a thumbling, he has been speaking to a dragonfly larva also about to undergo a metamorphosis.
  • The implications were instantly absorbed and a humbling apology was delivered. Times, Sunday Times
  • A thumbling stepped out of the bushes into the tiny clearing around the tree in which they hid.
  • It was a humbling experience for the England bowlers, but it is the batsmen who will have to exceed themselves. Times, Sunday Times
  • Scot songsmith Colin MacIntyre makes bold music about humbling experiences.
  • They kept very proudly together though they were of different lengths: the outermost, the thumbling, was short and fat; he walked out in front of the ranks, and only had one joint in his back, and could only make a single bow; but he said that if he were hacked off a man, that man was useless for service in war. Childhood's Favorites and Fairy Stories The Young Folks Treasury, Volume 1
  • I was always a bit shy and hesitant when I ordered from the women who worked in this shop, my illiteracy in Kabyle, my obvious non-French accent — it was much more humbling, my awkwardness there, than having my mistakes corrected in the regular French bakeries, uuuuune baguette, pas UN, mademoiselle! Five Stops on Line 2, Ch 1: Qalb elouz
  • It was one of the most humbling experiences of my life. THE DOG LISTENER: Learning the Language of your Best Friend
  • The bravery and stoicism of the soldiers can be humbling. Times, Sunday Times
  • A showerless two weeks is a humbling experience that teaches any teen more about who she is and what really matters in life than a tennis camp on Long Island could ever achieve. Mail Call
  • As with shaping or glassing surfboards, there is nothing like trying it yourself for a truly humbling experience.
  • Half of Nebraska'a last six games have resulted in humbling defeats. NCAA Division I College Football - Nebraska vs. Penn State
  • The implications were instantly absorbed and a humbling apology was delivered. Times, Sunday Times
  • He felt quite guilty for these revengeful thoughts, but in the end concluded that the severe humbling would do her good.
  • golf is a humbling game
  • Swift omitted no opportunity of humbling his pride; but, as he was as ignorant as insolent, he was obliged to accommodate the coarseness of the lash to the callosity of the back. Irish Wit and Humor Anecdote Biography of Swift, Curran, O'Leary and O'Connell
  • They lost in humbling fashion, ousted in the second of four voting rounds as London went on to edge Paris for the 2012 Summer Olympics. Chicago 2016 bid up for vote in Denmark on Friday
  • If anything, the humbling defeat should serve notice that improvements are urgently required. Times, Sunday Times
  • The account of spiritual struggle that follows has a humbling and numinous power.
  • Seeing how cancer can ravage the vitality from a person, it was a damned humbling sight. How I'll Always Remember Dennis Hopper
  • Yet i sedimentary few the degrader that ectoproct has to thraldom ahead screaky phagocytic out of the adventurism, and officiation humbling the battle dictostylium. Rational Review
  • It was well for the little thumbling that he did not see the smile on his sister's and brother's faces.
  • But you'll have to comb through humbling rosters of seven-figure properties first.
  • The account of spiritual struggle that follows has a humbling and numinous power.
  • Dry as the notes were, with their strokes on and between the five lines, the black and white keys were no less so: and not a syllable was heard, either of "thumbling," "pointerling," or "gold finger;" while the countenance of the man remained as imperturbable during his dry teaching as it had been before during his dry jests. Autobiography: Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life
  • “For this I likewise bring thee a handsome bit of money,” said Thumbling, and gave his father the kreuzer which he earned on his travels. Household Tales
  • More often, he uses his talents to discomfit people who deserve it, deflating the pretentious and humbling the arrogant.
  • It was a humbling experience for the England bowlers, but it is the batsmen who will have to exceed themselves. Times, Sunday Times
  • If anything, the humbling defeat should serve notice that improvements are urgently required. Times, Sunday Times
  • For a team that demands victory every year this is world-shaking, humbling stuff.
  • If anything, the humbling defeat should serve notice that improvements are urgently required. Times, Sunday Times
  • Ethel did not wait to hear more, but went to school next day full of the idea of humbling Julia by means of this wonderful piece of news. Ruth Arnold or, the Country Cousin
  • I have to say I find that fact as remarkable as it is humbling.
  • It was one of the most humbling experiences of my life. THE DOG LISTENER: Learning the Language of your Best Friend
  • The humbling and harrowing morality of the play, and much of its poetry, are lost.
  • This great diversity is one of the most humbling realities for the teacher. Christianity Today

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