Sentence examples for declarations of greatness from inspiring English sources

It did not take long for declarations of greatness to start after Stephen Strasburg's debut for the Washington Nationals on Tuesday.

A scrambled-egg mess of cheese-string limbs, phlegm, swearing, exclamation marks, malapropisms, vomit, rudeness, nudeness, monstrously narrow trouser-legs, bellowing punkrock daftness, dumb-as-a-bell declarations of greatness and hair that looks as if it's been assembled from the contents of a hoover used to clean a field, they make for astonishing viewing.

It would've been something to hear him read the lyrics of "The Snake" right here in the hometown of its author, singer-songwriter and social activist Oscar Brown Jr. Trump, for those who haven't been watching his campaign rallies, occasionally takes to reading poetry to his crowds in between his declarations of greatness and calls for violence against his detractors.

The odd thing is that this very declaration -- the impossibility of greatness, the masquerade involved in art -- was already accepted and anticipated by the Modernist movement.

Where social issues are concerned, Gerson's heroic conservatism is actually closer to the Social Gospel Protestant tradition and its equivalents on the Catholic left than to Republican orthodoxies or to the "national greatness" declarations of the neoconservatives.

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

EU negotiators spent hours answering tangential questions, and listening to declarations about the greatness of the Persian people—"going back to Cyrus the Great", he sighs leading up to its right to civilian nuclear technology.

Yet she had mahatmaic sparks of greatness.

Hardly the stuff of greatness.

It should take the measure of greatness.

It is their incessant invocation of "greatness".