If we hope that the lives of great scientists, mathematicians or philosophers will be ones of moral grandeur, Descartes will disappoint us.

Thus it was too that the very moral grandeur of his personality earned him the bitter enmity of many of the more humdrum intellectuals.

My main reason is that the huge cliche it instantiates totally drains the moral grandeur from the event.

"There was no moral grandeur to my father's life, Namri; only a local trap which he built for himself."

The monumental role, it has been said, demands majesty, moral grandeur, mind, a man, a man gone mad and a king in ruins.

Progress - that great goal of nineteenth-century thinkers - progress to a culture of noble aspirations, simple moral grandeur, could indeed be made, but by journeying backwards.

At length he said, "Was it an act of moral grandeur, I wonder, or just an act of cowardice?

And what science confers, "a moral grandeur, bureaucratic organisation of human lives in the light of.

But the real story was much larger than that, and it had a charge of moral grandeur.

None of them has the political weight or the moral grandeur to become the demiurge of a new Europe.