Sentence examples for human greatness from inspiring English sources
"It is human virtues I want," He says, "human greatness".Ms Neiman asks people to reject the false choice between Utopia and degeneracy.
"It's a place of human greatness, suffering and endurance – and an almost incomprehensible mastering of a situation that seems overwhelming, impossible to deal with.
The vision in this tragedy is deliberately unstable, but at its most ethereal it encourages a vision of human greatness that is distant from the soul-corrupting evil of Macbeth or King Lear.
The first and third stories in this volume are Vigny's masterpieces in prose, and the third story's portrait of Captain Renaud, an old Napoleonic soldier, is a profound portrait of human greatness.
The value of these Boy's Own adventures lies in the inspiration, surely -- in the indefinable dash of human greatness that loosens the story from the moorings of its period and ushers it into the immortal zone.
Yet for all the longstanding centrality of courage to any standard narrative of human greatness, only lately have researchers begun to study it systematically, to try to define what it is and is not, where it comes from, how it manifests itself in the body and brain, who we might share it with among nonhuman animals, and why we love it so much.
He showed a human spiritual greatness in his generosity to defeated opponents, which was partly responsible for his assassination.
To look down, at the ground beneath our feet, we can see the histories of human achievement, greatness, intelligence, folly, waste and cruelty.
The human capacity for greatness is immense -- not great in a worldly sense of fame and fortune, but rather through connectedness.
It is a panoramic survey of the futility of human pursuit of greatness and happiness.
They are about human vulnerability and greatness; our fragility and hope.
