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Meaning greatness meaning

What does greatness mean?

greatness

the property possessed by something or someone of outstanding importance or eminence (= enormousness) unusual largeness in size or extent or number

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Simple sentences

When the bombs fell on our harbor and tyranny threatened the world, she was there to witness a generation rise to greatness, and a democracy was saved. Yes, we can.
Neither gold nor greatness make us happy.
The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.
The extraordinary greatness of the Roman Empire manifests itself above all in three things: the aqueducts, the paved roads, and the construction of the drains.

Movie subtitles

Only when they are threadbare. will the people be able to understand. by hindsight, the greatness of our time. because of what you, my Leader, mean to Germany!
I suppose he had some private sort of greatness. But he kept it to himself.
But tell the Dauphin we will keep our state, be like a king, and show our sail of greatness when we do rouse us in our throne of France.
O be sick, great greatness, and bid thy ceremony give thee cure.
I knew all his dreams of greatness would be wrecked because of her.
Perhaps he loves you now, but you must fear, his greatness weighed, his will is not his own, for he himself is subject to his birth.
This have I thought good to deliver thee, my dearest partner of greatness, that thou mightst not lose the dues of rejoicing, by being ignorant of what greatness is promised thee.
The greatness in Peter Keating's personality lies in the fact that there's no personality. -.stamped upon his buildings. - Quite true.
I didn't wanna be tied to anything. I wanted to destroy it rather than let it be part of a world where beauty and genius and greatness have no chance.
I'm pleading for greatness.
They hate you for the greatness of your achievement.
Maybe I wanted to honor you and maybe I wanted to dishonor and discredit all greatness.
We have never learned to understand what is greatness in man.
In it he has achieved a greatness in the handling of color and line.
Greatness demands all.
Farewell, a long farewell to all my greatness.
His greatness and the value of his work were fully appreciated only after his death.
I think part of Miss Channing's greatness lies in her ability to pick the best plays.
We heard of the greatness of my lord Bayan and came in search of him.
What will its verdict be if you punish the innocent and betray your own greatness?
There's greatness in everyone.
If we want greatness, we must not be afraid. of depths, of heights, of insanity.
The gods have fashioned you for greatness.
And let us drink to the hope that one day this country of ours, which we love so much, will find dignity and greatness and peace again.
Greatness and peace.
I suppose he had some private sort of greatness.
A hundred years of greatness, heartbreak, sorrow.
He rode down it into greatness and glory.
I wanted you to know how men like Ethan climb a long, hard road to greatness.
But tell the Dauphin we will keep our state, be like a king and show our sail of greatness when we do rouse us in our throne of France.
O, be sick, great greatness, and bid thy ceremony give thee cure!
Which means that he and Jonny Nilsson and Brofeldt will be boasting to each other about their own greatness.
I knew that all his plans, all his dreams of greatness would be wrecked because of what she was doing to him.
I see life's greatness, wealth and magnitude.
Please don't misunderstand me, Mr. Richards. I think part of Miss Channing's greatness lies in her ability to pick the best plays.
You see, everyone needs a cause to touch greatness.

News and current affairs

He allows Russians to dream of greatness without getting them into serious trouble.
This is the unmistakable stamp of greatness in a writer.
Others defend Stalin's greatness on the basis of his role in repelling the Nazi invasion and ultimately defeating Hitler.
If geniuses like Solzhenitsyn and Sakharov helped dismantle the USSR, Putin appears to believe, other artists and thinkers could revive Russian greatness.
But politics in Russia has never been a matter of greatness, only control; and because the media is key to controlling politics, it seems almost natural that Putin is now seeking to manage it more directly.
A struggle for preserving the vestiges of greatness may be a worthy goal; perhaps France, a country richer than Russia, can afford these objectives.
National greatness for a world power always arises from its ability to shape the world.
As before the advent of Gorbachev - indeed, restoring a centuries-old tendency - Russians yet again believe that the people should be willing to forfeit their freedoms for the sake of the greatness of the state, which wins wars and launches Sputniks.
Russians have long boasted of their various unique forms of greatness: first it was the holy Russian soul, so superior to Western practicality.
All these forms of greatness, however, demanded that ordinary Russians accept their debasement and enslavement.
Even at the apex of American power, America's greatness was always based on inspiring others, and the opportunities for building market share in that particular category remain unlimited.
The historical truism applies here - Europe's greatness will be judged by how it treats its most vulnerable members.
The result is that a xenophobic, racist party, one hostile to everything essential to the spirit and greatness of France, was defeated in all of the contests that it was supposed to win.
It can be argued that during the colonial era, France willed the happiness of Algerians, not only the greatness of France.
He stirred up national pride and promised rural Thais that their country would rise to greatness following the devastating 1997 economic crisis.
National greatness for a world power always arises from its ability to shape the world. If a great power forgets this, or loses the ability to act accordingly, it begins to decline.
None of these misguided or cynical efforts has diluted Gandhi's greatness, or the extraordinary resonance of his life and his message.
Inevitably, few in today's world can measure up to his greatness or aspire to his credo.
He may not have fully understood what was happening before his eyes and the forces that he had unleashed, but his restraint constitutes true greatness.
The only contemporary European who can lay claim to the mantle of greatness is German Chancellor Angela Merkel, the European Union's de facto leader.

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