Sentence examples for whose greatness from inspiring English sources

Marsden Hartley was a great artist whose greatness is of a piece with the provincial clumsiness of American high culture in the early twentieth century.

By Peter Schjeldahl Marsden Hartley was a great artist whose greatness is of a piece with the provincial clumsiness of American high culture in the early twentieth century.

In a classic 1982 Esquire piece, Ron Rosenbaum went to Las Vegas to examine the notion, prevalent at the time, that Wayne Newton was a great entertainer — and one whose greatness could only be appreciated if you saw his live show.

It's a commonplace to talk about a great director's vision, but Godard is, above all, a director whose greatness is also a matter of touch — of physical touch — and "Goodbye to Language," is his most tactile film to date.

Those whose greatness transforms are called sagely (sheng).

With the passing of Nelson Mandela, on whose greatness everyone was agreed, this stage seemed particularly intense and protracted.

It says that there (actually) is a being whose actual greatness is greater than the greatness of any possible being.

These, however, are footling matters in a biography of one whose artistic greatness and human fineness are amply documented.

Moving on, then, briefly, to Ty Cobb, whose unambiguous greatness has been invoked in passing, and in contrast to our supposed contemporary ambiguities.

Historically, the NBA has specialized in creating great players everyone loves to hate, anti-heroes over whose unquestionable athletic greatness hangs a permanent caveat, flawed geniuses like Kobe Bryant.

He was a good composer with flashes of greatness, whose qualities go on being somewhat overstated.