There are, of course, some brilliant exceptions, some outstanding personalities.
March 24 , 1844Ixelles, Belgium June 13 , 1913Ixelles, Belgium Camille Lemonnier, in full Antoine-Louis-Camille Lemonnier (born March 24 , 1844 Ixelles, near Brussels, Belg. died June 13 , 1913 Ixelles) novelist, short-story writer, and art critic, one of the outstanding personalities of the 19th-century French literary renaissance in Belgium.
"Very few outstanding personalities in the world live to his level," he said.
Without a Plato to tell us who Socrates was, what his conversations with fellow Athenian citizens were like, without a Thucydides to set down Pericles' Funeral Speech and refashion it in his powerful and dramatic style, we would not have known what made Socrates and Pericles such outstanding personalities, nor would the reason for their uniqueness have been made fully manifest.
Noting that Gandhi had inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world, the statement urged Ghanaians to "look beyond the comments attributed to... Gandhi and acknowledge his role as one of the most outstanding personalities of the last century".
"But she seemed, like her brother, a peculiar and outstanding personality".
Heavyweight champions came and went, none of outstanding personality or talent.
RUTHERFORD'S death removes from science the most outstanding personality of the age.
"Ruth Berghaus was a very outstanding personality: one cannot explain somebody so exceptional.
He was a low-key sort of guy who stayed out of trouble but also lacked any outstanding personality trait".
Ahmadinejad defended Kordan as "an outstanding personality of the Islamic revolution" and said he would not attend the impeachment session over a "torn piece of paper".
