Sentence examples for great defined from inspiring English sources
He dreams of leaving his mark on this city's capitalist future as vividly as Peter the Great defined its imperial past.
"Great" - defined as "an extent, amount or intensity considerably above the normal or average" - is an adjective bandied about pretty loosely these days.
2tor (now 2U) was, in part, founded on the belief that online education has traditionally been of lesser quality, comparatively, because it isn't striving to be great, defined instead comprised of a million crappy micro-correspondence courses and make-shift MOOCs.
Similarly, Seligman [ 22] proposed a conceptual framework for positive health comprising three categories: subjective ("when a person feels great, defined by high ends of measures of several psychological states"), biological ("the positive ends of physiological function and anatomical structure distributions"), and functional ("how well does the individual function?").
But, as Penny demonstrates, in a great, defining chapter on the internet, we are dealing with a new world order.
Michael Lewis's article about Eli Manning was great, defining as it did Eli as an individual rather than in terms of playing statistics or press-agent hype.
Democratization (for the most part) cannot be imposed, but it can be encouraged — unless that great, defining national mission doesn't fit in the PowerPoint presentation.
Three beefy pots of different diameters and heights can look great, define a corner of a patio, or visually lighten corners and walls.
Yet, even in that century, you could go through Irish poetry and not find any real references to the Irish famine, although it was the great, defining event of that time.
Stockhausen's music contains some of the great, defining aural images of 20th-century music, on a par with the flute that opens Debussy's L'après-midi d'un Faune or the upward swoop that ends Schoenberg's Erwartung.
For those pixels with a value of 500 or greater (defined as 'highly' or 'extremely' rugged), Landsat ETM imagery alone was used for settlement mapping.
