Sentence examples for lasting greatness from inspiring English sources

History is beckoning the Knicks these days, but which will be the more powerful calling, the individual measure of lasting greatness or the consummate joy of collective achievement?

Lowry's reply, written in January 1946, was a prolonged, vehement, slightly mad defence of the book as something to be considered a work of lasting greatness: "It can be regarded as a kind of symphony," he wrote, "or in another way as a kind of opera – or even a horse opera.

It might be less raging – but a deeper sense of control and experience can produce lasting greatness.

Federer's return to No. 1, after beating Murray at Wimbledon in July and before he turned 31 this month, spoke not only to his lasting greatness, but also to his steadfast belief in himself.

Maybe credit Train's mega-hit "Hey Soul Sister" or, more likely, the lasting greatness that was the Hawaiian musician IZ, whose "Over the Rainbow" rendition reincarnated the ukulele sound.

Greatness lasts in the memories of the Australians they spoke up for and the many thousands they influenced.

"It's our job to push him day in and out and make sure his greatness lasts at least seven or eight years, a quality period of time.

Alexander Pope, in the preface to his translation of 1715, marvels that Homer supplies "such different kinds of deaths that no two heroes are wounded in the same manner... that every battle rises above the last in greatness, horror and confusion".

Twenty years on, no driver has since been killed at a Formula One event, a lasting epitaph to Senna and his greatness.

That decision was made by a desperate old man who wants one last chance at greatness and is willing to sell everything that was ever great about him in order to get it.

To Gregg Doyel of CBSSports.com, James gave up any last claim to greatness by making this all about him and no one else.