Cassandra admires the way that Australia are now showing signs of recovering their previous greatness (definitively lost last year when they lost the test series to England), but nonetheless I feel rather saddened by the Melbourne result.
While many tribe members are proud of what the humble Goklish has accomplished as a runner and as a student, and while he often talks to children about aspiring to greatness without losing one's Apache core, he has been exposed to the jealousy that accompanies stardom on the reservation.
Their mission – as they saw it – was to restore Russia's lost greatness.
The lost greatness of the imperial period can thereby be fleetingly restored".
He is, equally, an opportunist and an ideologue – a passionate, patriotic Russian nationalist, fiercely proud of the Motherland (the beloved Rodina) and determined to restore lost greatness.
Many of the new men who had emerged from the Resistance movement into political life, business posts, or the state bureaucracy retained a strong urge toward renovation as well as to a reassertion of France's lost greatness.
He interprets the Euroscepticism of the last few decades as a post-imperial condition, in which the longing for a lost greatness is so desperate that it grossly distorts the objects of nostalgia.
Back then, Republican Presidential aspirants like Taft still nurtured strong isolationist leanings; today's leading contenders, excepting Senator Rand Paul, are promoting a "muscular" foreign policy, flaunting their hawkishness as if a regular workout in the interventionist gym will return America to lost greatness.
Indeed, from his earliest days in power in 2000, Mr. Putin, who left the presidency in 2008 and became prime minister, decided natural resource exports and energy in particular would not only finance the country's economic rebirth but also help restore Russia's lost greatness after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Having said that, Roger Federer hardly enhanced his claim to future greatness when he lost to Luis Horna at the French Open in 2003, just three weeks before his Grand Slam-winning career began!
