Sentence examples for great persons from inspiring English sources
Holinshed's "Chronicles," published just before Mary's execution, laid responsibility for this crime on "great persons now living": code, Guy argues, for Cecil.
He disliked the upper-class idea that the word could be properly used only in relation to great persons who suffered in plays.
The very long Asian genealogies begin as oral pedigrees and were later written down, but they concern only princes or great persons.
Instead of fostering critical thinking, Mr. Schama and other practitioners of the genre tend to present a dumbed-down, grossly oversimplified, mythologizing view of the history of nations, and an equally reverent, hagiographical approach toward the role of "great persons".
Tragedy dealt with the disaster-struck lives of great persons, was written in elevated verse, and took as its setting a mythological and ancient world of gods and heroes: Agamemnon, Theseus, Oedipus, Medea, and the rest.
"[They] are great artists, and great persons," he says.
"She is a great person," he says.
Coleman said: "He's a great person.
