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With an affectionate and admiring smile on his own face, he has written an unaffected biography of an unaffected great man.
He clearly and unchallengeably stands out as the purest great man in universal history.
Admiration for a great man and his important work does not presuppose uncritical acceptance of all his views.
He was a great man, a great South African, someone whom I feel was under appreciated as a South African icon.
He was also an avid reader of the newspapers and a great man for television and radio programmes.
If we can just get the great man to endorse Scottish tourism, we could make a very unspiritual mint.
And if the passing of the great man brought a sombreness to the mood, that wasn't lifted by what happened on the pitch.
Now Berwick is, thankfully, on the road to recovery, the Diary will approach the great man and sound him out.
A great man for walking, he is a familiar sight on most days as he steps it out in style around the town.
It's a controversial portrayal of the great man which isn't above hinting he had a dark side.
And he was, Samuel, a great hope, a great man ab ovo, his father in miniature.
The great man waved to the crowds in the main grandstand, and gentle applause wafted back at him.
I had read a Reader's Digest collection of adulatory articles about the great man.
He felt like he was walking on air when his winning number was called and he was handed a pair of autographed boots by the great man himself.
The great man was so exhausted in the four-hour marathon dogfight that he stood at the back of the court vomiting early in the fifth set.
And when mourners of every age, race, and creed praised him as a great man, I wondered what His Eminence had done to merit those words.
What comes through most powerfully is the pain of the great man as lifelong lonely little boy.
Lee's flamboyant personality and quick, cool, dry wit are trademarks of this great man of musical theatre.
Many years ago an Italian friend of mine, who knew Senna quite well, gave me a baseball cap signed by the great man.
He was a bear to get along with sometimes, and temperamental as the very devil, but underneath it all he was really a good man and a great man.
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This was such a senseless act of violence perpetrated upon a great talent and a great man.
There in the middle was a solitary deck chair with the great man fast asleep and the cub wrapped in his arms.
Keen as mustard, fearless as well as tactless, he did not hesitate to treat even the great man himself to a barbed tongue-lashing.
Eager to learn from the great man, she hangs on his every word, reminding him of his own faraway innocence and purity of motive.
No, I believe the whole thing is a dastardly plot to malign and traduce a great man.
Rather than admit the great man is in fact a great flop, they label these dedicated economic soldiers as treacherous.
You know, I may have misjudged what a great man and great president Ronald Reagan really was.
He is a great man to turn up year after year and his stamina and sense of purpose is unequalled.
The ad was made in Iceland and also features the West Kerry hostelry, where the great man once pulled pints for the locals in Annascaul.
Terrible as it is to say it, we're not going to get a more thorough Bennett bio until the great man pops his clogs.
When a great man like an Isaac makes a blessing, that blessing affects spiritual forces and becomes a reality.
When I like someone I find I do that terrible thing of giving them a bit of cheek and I am sorry to say that I cheeked the great man himself this very day.
His face was streaming with tears, eyes front, watching the great man.
Not being nearly as eloquent or elucidative as my great-great grandfather, I will leave the great man to speak for himself.
Through ceremonies like these anticlericals were creating a cult of the great man who died for his political principles, and whose memory can inspire the living.
Whether or not he is a great man, Skip Gates has done two inarguably great things.
Jared is a great man where Anthony is but a shadow of a boy.
There is a birdcage, which Shackelton owned and several photographs of the great man, together with letters and other documents penned or signed by him.
Are we still going to see these yahoos on TV this fall, though, saying what a great man he is?
The great man, with his cocked hat, his ventripotent waistcoat and spreading coat-tails, looked absurdly foreshortened and distorted, like a figure in a conjuring-glass.
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It would be a calumny on the reputation of that great man to suggest it.
Although Paulette is suffocating under his egotism, there is a great scene in which she watches the great man at work and is entranced by his handiness with a brush and paint.
Footage shot by a future director in the early '70s captures the great man getting stinko on an airplane before ambling in front of an auditorium full of fans.
On Mozart's funeral a spoil-sport historian once again gives short shrift to our cherished melancholic picture of a great man just heartlessly chucked into a hole.
The notion that he was a great man who hesitated overmuch to exercise power over his brother bishops seems to me to be much closer to the reality.
Johnny was an ardent football follower and a great man to support Mayo.
All but the footgoers pushed on to the Hermitage, where Sam dismounted to stand beside Jackson as the great man spoke his praises.
Others proclaim the infirmities of a great man with satisfaction and complacency, if they discover none of the like in themselves.
Joseph, when he was sold to Potiphar, that great man, was a fair young springall.
There is not in earth a spectacle more worthy than a great man superior to his sufferings.
His nickname is said to have derived from two old Danish words 'ble' meaning dark skinned and 'tan' meaning great man.
Before a host of past and present world leaders, Mr Reagan was eulogised as a great president, a great American, and a great man.
Yam stood for manliness, and he who could feed his family on yams from one harvest to another was a very great man indeed.
Seated in the tribune of his basilica, the great man would meet his dependent clientes early every morning.
The additory fiction gives to a great man a larger share of reputation than belongs to him, to enable him to serve some good end or purpose.
Some pickthank contrived to let the little great man know what had taken place, and he, so she informed me, was ungenerous enough to wreak a mean revenge.
Examples from Classical Literature
The great man leaned against the brickwork of the roundel, and swung his arms abroad.
The minister was the great man, and his bodily presence was a restraint upon the unruly, and the ruly too, for that matter.
It must be saddening to a great man to reflect that the schoolboys have no respect for him.
While this great man lives, he ought to be supreme in the affairs of his country.
From this time forward, vague rumors reported the existence of a great man in Angoumois.
Courtesy, they say, is the mark of a great man, discourtesy of a little one.
When all was said, a man in the presence of this quack did feel in the presence of a great man.
We will not do a great man such a disservice as to dig him up for a spectacle.
And the mesne lord will often be a very great man, some prelate or baron with a widespread honour.
They are uncostly, plain, and humble, showing the unostentatious mind of the great man.
The great man is pretty old and doddery, wears spectacles about an inch thick, and a large collection of decorations.
Like many another great man, Morgagni seems to have been especially fortunate in his mother.
That great man, though a friend to bank paper, was an enemy to government paper.
By this means the great man, still despised as a Boston bean-eater, was able to bring his adversary to ruin.
Then the great man began to swear, and did it well and fluently, with gusto.
But it was soon clear that Wightman, the old steward, was no longer the great man at Lexley.
Then, heralded by an obsequious guard, came a great man, proconsular in mien and gait.
There is none of that withdrawing dignity of fujiyama, the great man who looks on.
Dr. Belfrage was a great man in posse, if ever I saw one,a village Hampden.
Of the significance of the life of this great man, it would be superfluous to speak.
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And so we have Milton and Herrick, both poets, the one a great man, the other not.
Seated with him we found the great man of the district, the caid, making a morning call.
Their names were Van and chou, to which they annexed the title of Ta-gin, or great man.
For all he knew, Owen was in the habit of hobnobbing with the great man every night.
For his tone was that of the great man addressing his henchman.
Every great man, says herder, has a glance which no one can imitate.
On the fourth floor we come to the sanctum of the great man himself.
He was a great man, and full of expedients, but the position was novel.
Your father was a great man, and he rates a fair shake in the write-ups.
It was characteristic of the great man to act quickly, so quickly that his friends declared he was a slave to impulse.
What souvenir of a great man can compete with the knocker of his door?
What indemnification is one great man for populations of pygmies!
When Johnson thought of beginning the dictionary he wrote about it to Lord Chesterfield, a great man and fine gentleman of the day.
The great man poured out a big tumbler half full of raw spirits, and gulped it down without a word.
Tacitus was a great man, but he was not up to the Sicilian expedition.
If Mahler is not a great man, he is at least the silhouette of one.
But the great man presented to him a calm and undismayed face.
He was in some ways rough-hewn and unpolished, but he was a great man.
Did you forget that this great man, this hero, this demigod, is attacked with a malady of the skin which worries him to death, prurigo?
Thus, vicariously, was Ericus Dale recognized as a great man.
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See what it is to have a summons from a great man, Mr. prebendary.
This was the sensation the great man had doubtless not purposed.
With the gifts of a great man he didn't have a great man's robustness.
Pleased that it should have recurred to him, the great man smiled.
But of the great man himself, who wrote hits such as September Song, not to mention several Broadway musicals and the score to Brecht's Threepenny Opera, there is not a word.
A FOOLISH Fellow who had been told that he was a great man believed it, and got himself appointed a Commissioner to the Interasylum Exposition of Preserved Idiots.
