Sentence examples for Lack of greatness from inspiring English sources

But Robert Cyran says the device suffers from a lack of greatness, and Bob Cringely believes  the new tablet is no Moses event: "It's puzzling to think how Microsoft will position these tablets.

Her longevity may be extended by the lack of greatness competing for the same titles.

Both as man and ruler he lacked the stamp of greatness that marked Alfred the Great and William the Conqueror.

The soccer at this World Cup lacked a sense of greatness.

The lack of progress or greatness isn't because there's a grand idea missing.

Bond also pins down the lack of correspondence between poetic greatness and domestic bliss: Bond's Shakespeare bars his bedroom door to his imploratory wife and daughter.

The fact that we will pump millions of dollars into the local economy this year and into a downtown that has the skeleton of greatness but lacked the investment, that is exciting.

It stalled at No 20, but quickly became a fan favourite (for me, like many other 15-year-olds stuck in suburbia, its lack of commercial success underlined its greatness).

As the Bard wrote, "Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them".

Two other essential elements of greatness that Big Brown will apparently lack are racing distinction as a 2-year-old and durability.

Many cling to a seeming lack of trophies to highlight his non-greatness but it was fair to describe in this very paper his return to Boca as "a triumph of poetry over prose" some years ago.