Sentence examples for mean greatness from inspiring English sources

This may be "the boldest budget in more than a decade", a Tory minister described it to the Sun, but boldness does not necessarily mean greatness, and the impact it will have on my generation is unprecedented.

Fast forward to a generation later, when Ned Rorem, never a Wagnerite, tried to bring me to my senses, to get me to see what we Wagnerites never could, no matter what kind of lip service we gave to critical and qualifying views of Wagner, no matter how hard we tried: that greatness of the art does not mean greatness -- nobility, humanity, character -- of the artist.

7 And for my own part, the things which cause fear to others give me a special confidence; I mean the greatness of the task and the fact that you have the whole world to set in order by land and sea.

If this sounds familiar — the Moses-like savior who learns he's meant for greatness — it's because the character was conceived to compete with Superman.

But Morris knows he's meant for greatness, and so, more out of class resentment than affection, he elopes with his 17-year-old innocent.

Abused and beaten by his father (Lennie James) and abandoned by his mother (Viola Davis), he grows up in Depression-era rural Georgia, under the protection of Aunt Honey (Octavia Spencer), an all-seeing woman who runs a brothel, and who tells him that he's meant for greatness.

It's one brother reminding all of God's men we were meant for greatness, and that greatness is defined in contagious and courageous abandonment to Jesus".

The 24 factors that the Harris Poll seems to think constitute the means to greatness require some conversation as well.

She sees the true you, the bigger you, the you hidden inside, the you no one else can see, the you that was meant for greatness.

"Or perhaps not: for what does greatness mean?" Correction: November 3, 2004, Wednesday An obituary on Oct. 25 about Michael Grant, who wrote popular books on the ancient world, misstated the title of a text written by Ben Sira, the subject of an assessment by Mr. Grant.

By meanness, not greatness.