Sentence examples for of lesser men from inspiring English sources
Music, since the advent of file sharing, has wiped out the fortunes of lesser men.
But his ubiquity is the result of a lengthy apprenticeship in the comedy trenches and a series of obstacles that would weaken the resolve of lesser men.
Of course, Chávez has had his share of rough patches in the past and has proven able to bluster through political storms that would have ended the careers of lesser men.
Sinfield, their inspirational captain, had to dust himself down from two injuries that would have ended the involvement of lesser men, the second of them a heavy blow to his jaw from the head of Michael Monaghan.
The book confirms that Keynes was an intellectual giant with flawless intuition for finance, but it also exposes his caustic criticisms of lesser men and his tin ear for workaday diplomacy.
"Given the sweep of his life, and the adoration that he so rightly earned, it is tempting then to remember Nelson Mandela as an icon, smiling and serene, detached from the tawdry affairs of lesser men," said Mr Obama.
While the audience of the 1980s might've been filled with the fear of powerful women and willing to sympathise with the "plight" of the lesser men who loved them (or at least profited handsomely off them) – and even understood and supported men's urge to date their exes' younger, dumber Plasticine lookalikes – the situation has changed in 2015.
"Don't worry!" he roars, slapping the backs of the lesser men around him.
Among his first orders of business was to make clear that the league would have some big-league players — so long as the major league owners were willing to part with some of the lesser men they held under major and, effectively, minor league contract.
"Something untoward, I tell you, this way comes," the Dowser says, and the next naysayer seconds: "For all your many warnings and the winnings you have frightened up...for all the vanquished litter of the lesser men you laid to waste... .. "What is it?
And that's the inability to consider marrying a man of lesser means, a man who will be unable to support her once she loses that main source of her income.
