Example sentences for: greatness

How can you use “greatness” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • It's a movie lacquered by its own self-importance, so bloated with the ambition to achieve greatness that it can barely move.

  • But the New York Times ' Ben Brantley claims the play "bears the rare mark of theatrical greatness: it is rooted in specific, even earthy details but it sets off echoes that go way beyond its sad story."

  • A Che who, like any ordinary communist politician, had never killed anyone; a Che who had survived his guerrilla adventures, and was today an elderly figure, administering some grim bureaucracy for Fidel Castro or, alternatively, writing books at home in Argentina, surrounded by his anti-communist grandchildren--a Che like that would cause no stir at all today, and writers around the world would not be straining their brains to draw ever finer distinctions between the man's calamitous influence and some undefinable greatness.

  • Uniquely in the history of Great Powers, the United States defines its greatness not as an ability to dominate others but as an ability to work with others in the interest of the international community.

  • Above all is the yearning for greatness, for acts of wondrous heroism.


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