That humility, which almost amounts to disdain for the latest fashion, is the secret of Mr Storm's success.
Japanese tend to be quiet even when service and food is bad, so the Jumbo had probably grown to disdain its customers.
Yet he could also be arrogant and authoritarian, ready to adopt the very practices he affected to disdain by, for instance, appointing his father to chair two regional corporations.
It is fashionable to disdain government today, dismissing it as a maze of misanthropic bureaucracy responsible for undermining the marketplace and stripping much-needed dollars from individual citizens and the economy.
Aggressive promotions: Toyota traditionally was the king of incentive restraint, able to disdain the game of buying sales with expensive, brand-debasing financial lures that became part of the undoing of the Detroit Three in the United States.
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Among that lopsidedness is the intentional training of students to disdain America, freely experiment sexually, forcefully defend issues such as abortion and homosexuality, and become cultural advocates for political correctness, relativism, globalization, green agendas and tolerance for all.
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And while you may be inclined to disdain government regulation as the source of price increases for the consumer that result from government involvement, in many if not most cases, those prices would have been higher without government regulation had business taken steps to do the right thing all on their own.
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Without the music career he hoped would take off--Federline's debut album, Playing With Fire, opened to critical disdain and lackluster sales--it's his tabloid presence that continues to open doors for his celebrity.
Instead, to the disdain of the Greens, two rival Social Democratic camps have emerged.
Mr. Morrissey, for example, traces his lack of respect for the American cult of message discipline to his disdain for American football, that most top-down of sports.
After three years she decided, much to her family's disdain, to study design in New York.
The state is too often hostile to business, treating entrepreneurs and executives with a haughty disdain to rival that with which Chinese mandarins treated merchants centuries ago--a critical reason China stagnated while the West advanced.
At the cash registers we spoke sentences tailored to convey our disdain, in terms so subtle it was barely detectable.
Their voters, and others, have taken to the streets to demonstrate their disdain for Putin and his party, which he leads.
Neiderauer, a former Goldman Sachs partner and senior trading executive there, is said to have a disdain for the floor-based trading model.
The show is packed with stereotypes but the actors are good, which has led some critics to soften their disdain for the hackneyed storylines.
Neiderauer, a former Goldman Sachs (nyse: GS - news - people ) partner and senior trading executive there, is said to have a disdain for the floor-based trading model.
Perkins and Keyworth, who saw Sarbanes-Oxley as adding an unnecessary layer of bureaucracy, were dismissive of the requirements, and Keyworth had often expressed to Fiorina his disdain for Dunn and her audit-committee work.
Sudeith chalks up this disdain to the fact that most buyers have seen only pitiful little carpets that feature nothing more interesting than a map of Afghanistan and a few hastily woven weapons.
To the Dutchman's disdain the free-kick went to the home side but the abrasive gestures, which are becoming a Mourinho trademark after he put his finger to his lips in the Carling Cup win over Liverpool, were not finished.
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Contrary to popular belief, the disdain for Wall Street has absolutely nothing to do with money.
With confidence is also openness, curiosity, an attraction to absurdity, a disdain for authority and a seemingly complete grasp of language and whatever subject he chooses to discuss.
What makes many Vietnamese think that golf club memberships are a one-way ticket to profit is their leaders' disdain for the fairways and especially Communist Party bosses' moves to limit new courses.
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Even my friends who disdain golf admitted to watching the back nine on Sunday.
Stomachs full of water, they did so slowly and with disdain, appeared to bearthritic.
As for the now 28, 000 Gibraltarians, today's British and Spanish governments seem to think that the princely disdain of 1713 stands with it.
Over the past six months, however, the ubiquitous worship of Apple seems to have turned into universal disdain as the stock has tumbled 40% from its peak.
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Various surveys of employers come to the predictable conclusion that migrants are better employees: they are more highly skilled, work harder and are prepared to do jobs that locals disdain.
For example, one regional CEO made a practice of berating his employees in front of clients without warning in an attempt to impress clients with his disdain for the slightest slip in performance.
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It is hard to imagine a more different agenda than that of Mr. Obama - whose ideologically driven antipathy to such defenses seems about as deep-seated as his disdain for those in Congress who have sought to protect Americans against ballistic missile attack.
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