Sentence examples for great tyrant from inspiring English sources

Mr. Jobs was the last great tyrant, writes David Streitfeld.

In Idi Amin, the great tyrant of Uganda from 1971 to 1979, Forest Whitaker has been given a sextuple whopper with extra cheese - and he supplies the relish.

But Scott stood up, confronted the great tyrant of American acting, and silenced him with a colourful, violent speech about taking the director's responsibility.

The emperor is not so much a great tyrant brought undone, but an economic force and a charismatic, charming house guest.

That Stalin's system persisted as long as it did, in all its major essentials, after the death of its creator is partly due to the very excess of severity practiced by the great tyrant.

Moving On, Minus Its Genius: Defending Life's Work With Words Of a Tyrant Maybe it is only the despair people feel about the stagnating American economy, but the announcement of the death of the Apple cofounder Wednesday seemed to mark the end of something: in an era of limits, Mr. Jobs was the last great tyrant.

The great tyrants were notable patrons of the arts and conspicuous builders.

The subject, quintessentially Handelian, is the relationship between "politics and love, those two great tyrants", as the text puts it.

The great tyrants of 20th-century Europe could not have wielded the power they did if significant numbers of their subjects had not placed their hopes in them.

And yet I for striking down a greater tyrant than they ever knew am looked upon as a common cutthroat".

Since he is an illegal child of Krypton, defeating the planet's greatest tyrant and saving the remaining Kryptonians would prove Kal-El's worth and show that he is a true Kryptonian.