Sentence examples for idea of greatness from inspiring English sources

And let's face it, maybe you were great once (if your idea of greatness was a king who beheaded his wives because it was somehow easier than just fooling around) but now it's really just nostalgia for the good old days when you had a really swell navy and owned half the world.

The idea of greatness is changing.

But then again, is the idea of greatness even relevant anymore?

I guess that's his idea of greatness, but it's not mine.

Journalists have always been keen on the idea of greatness, tending its edges jealously.

But we kowtow to someone else's idea of greatness at our peril.

That is why he implicitly compared Jonathan Wild to Robert Walpole, and why throughout this text there is a constant undermining of the idea and ideal of greatness in all its forms.

While the presidents of America and France have much in common, their ideas of greatness are continents apart.

Fixed and hierarchical ideas of "greatness" feel off-kilter with the times, even socially divisive in their narrow view of what greatness is and how it manifests itself not only musically, but also culturally and demographically.

The idea of Scrabble greatness doesn't exist for him".

Bloom would say that if we have any idea of what greatness is in literature it is because Shakespeare taught us it.