Springsteen, who hails from the same industrial New Jersey landscape as Roth, and who has written several mythic songs about chasing the American dream, saw in Roth a late resurgence of creative genius that made everything that preceded it seem like a mere prelude to greatness.
Sustain, sustain, sustain.' Springsteen, who hails from the same industrial New Jersey landscape as Roth, and who has written several mythic songs about chasing the American dream, saw in Roth a late resurgence of creative genius that made everything that preceded it seem like a mere prelude to greatness.
To crouch in the train of mere stupid wealth and greatness..
Throw in ridiculously overhyped accolades like Mr. Basketball — isn't Player of the Year prestigious enough? — and it's no wonder a deluded kid like Jereme Richmond shows up in Champaign believing his mere presence will guarantee greatness as he uses college to tune up for the pros.
The effort it took to get such heavyweights on stage all together, was destined to be the 2015 festival's takeaway – it was a fleeting moment of hip-hop greatness, a mere taste of the halcyon days that left us wanting a full meal.
The virtue of magnificence is superior to mere liberality, and similarly greatness of soul is a higher excellence than the ordinary virtue that has to do with honor.
The greatness of great musicians is in more than their mere skill at performing; it's in self-challenging creation and emotional exposure — a self-challenging that's all the more audacious when it takes place in public, in the presence of an audience, rather than in the studio, where the failures can be erased or shoved into a drawer.
Nike notwithstanding, there are no mere "Witnesses" to James's greatness.
Zola's fourth novel, the first to win the author widespread recognition, it is still an early work, a mere foretaste of the later greatness of "Nana," "Germinal" or "L'Assommoir," and written decades before "J'Accuse," the author's famous 1898 open letter in defense of the Jewish army captain Alfred Dreyfus at a time when anti-Semitism was dividing France.
While what Greinke has accomplished has been amazing, Hershiser was simply astonishing, blazing a trail of greatness for which mere numbers do not do justice.
