Sentence examples for great merits from inspiring English sources

I believe that one of the great merits of academic philosophy is that its central topics are as gender-neutral as those of physics, mathematics or linguistics.

One of the great merits of "The Descendants" is its apt look at the way that relations between parents and children — for parents of Payne's generation — have changed.

One of the great merits of Dunham's art is to reveal as beautiful the sort of female body that is seldom depicted in movies, though lovers in real life know it to be beautiful.

In both cases Dante records his indebtedness, his fondness, and his appreciation of their great merits, but in each he is equally obliged to record the facts of separation.

But this rip-snorting Western novel rises far above such considerations and works on its own great merits as a seamlessly imagined coming-of-age story set in wild country and wilder times.

With their faults, they were above all utterly readable, by way of their sarcastic irreverence; with all their great merits, too many American journalists and their journals are suffocatingly respectable, stifled by the desperate requirement to avoid any appearance of bias, or even hint of personality.

That is Nick's great merit.

In addition, Mr Koizumi has another great merit.

So you can't really do anything of great merit.

Foreman's a fighter of no great merit.

"There's no great merit in it," he says.