Sentence examples for greatness upon from inspiring English sources

By contrast to, say, Foster Wallace's pyrotechnical prose, The End of Vandalism doesn't so much thrust as insinuate its greatness upon you.

There are noble points in abundance in the characters of these two men, and one to be first mentioned is their attaining such a height of greatness upon such inconsiderable means; and on this score Dion has by far the advantage.

And he was the man who, more than any American intellectual of his generation, by his work and by his example, conferred greatness upon the homeliest of qualities, the quality that transforms controversy into a search for the true and action into a search for the good, the quality that mattered most to Orwell and Silone, who were, we may now say, Irving's true company: the quality of decency.

I give sincere thanks and praise to our Heavenly Father for bestowing such talent and greatness upon them and giving them the ability to influence generations to come, while gifting me with these precious relationships and experiences.

Night at the Museum Teddy Roosevelt: "Some men are born great; others have greatness thrust upon them".

Some space aliens are born great; others achieve it, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

Some have greatness thrust upon them.

SOME men, it is said, have greatness thrust upon them.

It's what most of our greatness depends upon.

("Some have greatness thrust upon them!" reads the final crawl).

He too had greatness thrust upon him when Lady Thatch sorry, Newt Gingrich was forced out.