Sentence examples for enduring greatness from inspiring English sources

Yet deconstructionists and feminists, for example, at their best portray a Shakespeare of enduring greatness.

Mayweather and Pacquiao are flirting with enduring greatness, and the only thing standing between them and boxing immortality is their refusal to face each other.

Ultimately, isn't our democracy's proven ability to respond to, change through and absorb crisis the clearest testament to the enduring greatness of our country?

He concludes, "Ibsen's enduring greatness as a dramatist is due not to his technical innovations, but to the depth and subtlety of his understanding of human character (especially feminine character), and, which is rarer, of human relationships".

(As an example of how America provides "adequate illusions" of social equality, he notes that fans of, say, the Los Angeles Lakers "can vicariously share in their team's triumphal quest for enduring greatness").

Thus, from the opening scene, Upton dispenses with the various nuances of Hedda's character — part of her enduring greatness is that we will never entirely understand her — and leaves us in the company of a woman whose cutting speech is as small-minded as the circumstances in which she finds herself.

Ms. Reynolds declined to be interviewed about the Kennedy Center gift but in a statement released by the center praised it as a living memorial to President John F. Kennedy, who, she said, "believed that the arts are the highest achievement of the individual and an enduring source of national greatness".

[Applause.] And that truth has bound us together, a nation populated by people from around the globe, enduring hardship and achieving greatness as one people.

Seeing greatness in himself long before taking power, Castro created his own, enduring persona, and played the role with a flourish throughout his long public life.

With Mr. Andréa contributing to the dialogue, Ms. Dayan (who has spent most of her long career creating movies for French television), has made a film that repeatedly insists on Duras's greatness while sparing the audience the often difficult and uncomfortable task of actually enduring her works.

He thought about enduring.