Sentence examples for decline of greatness from inspiring English sources

In the 1950s, that golden age, Arthur Schlesinger Jr wrote "The Decline of Greatness", lamenting the departure of great men and the nation's descent into bland conformity.This is why the greatness talk is not only divisive and obfuscatory but also sometimes dangerous.

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

This stagnation sets up conditions for the emergence of a new vision of greatness to arrest the previous decline.

Whether we lay the foundations for decades of greatness, or shirk our responsibility and acquiesce in decline.The speech deserves the attention it has brought.

He is typically considered a "close but no" guy, his brief stretch of greatness from 1982 to '87 followed by a sharp decline.

Hence the national side's decline from greatness.

Yet she had mahatmaic sparks of greatness.

It should take the measure of greatness.

It is their incessant invocation of "greatness".

Cabernet franc is also capable of greatness.

But there are signs of greatness here.