Sentence examples for great affair from inspiring English sources

The great affair is to move.

"I was having this not very great affair.

I felt a similar sense, although in my case, I was about to watch, and was already watching, this "great affair" unfold.

Her autobiography might have been called "Life: A Love Story," testament not to one great affair but to all the private glory she found in the chances she took.

Although no single volume in English does justice to all the Voltaires, the second, scientific Voltaire, at least, inspired one of the most blissfully entertaining books in the language, Nancy Mitford's 1954 "Voltaire in Love," an account of his great affair with Mme.

A Belgian member of the European Parliament since 1984, Gérard Deprez, told Le Monde that Europe had been "the great affair of my life" but now, and for the first time, he was worried: "I don't see the dynamic that will lead us out of this crisis".

He frowns and thinks of all his great affairs.

In fact, there are three great affairs of my life… writing, love and le goût d'aventure – the taste of adventure.

In Stephen Crane's "Red Badge of Courage," before going into battle, Henry Fleming felt that "he was about to mingle in one of those great affairs of the earth".

Whereas the earlier Saxon witan, or king's council, dealt only with great affairs of state, the new Norman court assumed wide judicial powers.

To achieve this, it kept well away from great affairs of state, concentrating instead on the petty torments of frustrated careerism.