Sentence examples for certain greatness from inspiring English sources

But the vandalism Coetzee commits upon the easily checked facts of his own life ultimately serves to sharpen a question that does seem genuine, and genuinely self-­indicting: Doesn't being a great artist demand, or at least imply, a certain greatness of spirit as well?

Though To Kill a Mockingbird is undoubtedly a great book, I think there is also a certain greatness to the fact that in Go Set a Watchman Harper Lee tackles the truth that there is no true Atticus Finch – that he wasn't real, but also that he isn't a realistic aspiration – and in-so-doing she completely confronts racism in the South for what it really is.

But even his title, the negative of Allahuh Akhbar, the legend Saddam inscribed on the Iraqi flag, implies a certain greatness in the author.

I'm not certain of his greatness.' Wyndham finally left the Sunday Times in 1980.

They believe that there have been, throughout the ages, certain paragons of greatness — Dante, Mozart, Einstein — whose talents far exceeded normal comprehension, who had an other-worldly access to transcendent truth, and who are best approached with reverential awe.

But once again, anyone who aspires to a certain version of greatness or success are labelled an elite in the pejorative sense – to be scorned and mistrusted, to have their place in public life questioned or invalidated.

She's on a certain track to greatness, and if she can whip that dark-lit room into a Coachella-sized frenzy, there's not much that can stop her now.

Reviews were bad Roger Ebert called Dreamcatcher "a monster movie of stunning awfulness"—but a semi-flattering consensus soon formed that Dreamcatcher was destined for a certain type of greatness, or at least infamy.

"It expresses a certain melancholy before the greatness of a past faced with the mediocrity we have come down to today," Mr. Oliveira wrote.

By the force of his enthusiasm he argues as well as anyone for the greatness of certain poets, particularly Olson (whom he calls "the O") and Ginsberg; he also pays powerful respect to various social activists — Dorothy Day, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Abbie Hoffman.

Williams' path to this greatness is certain to find obstacles.