1.   Because many pieces are handmade, they may be expensive, despite the humble materials.

2.   During and after World War II, the Eameses excelled at creating elegant products in the humble new materials of plywood and plastic.

3.   Gehry has long been revered for his sculptural forms and his artistic elevation of humble materials like cardboard and corrugated metal.

4.   Their wealth and taste afforded them houses that whispered luxury through humble materials handled like precious treasure and set off by details of breathtaking inventiveness and exquisite artistry.

5.   What God did is not so different from what puppeteers do, using humble materials to model their own images, and then breathing finite life into those figures.