Sentences with phrase «destined leader of the world»
The elites harbored grandiose, extravagant visions of being the center and the apex of the world, of being the crux of the modern and the destined leader of the world, reflecting a kind of Hegelian idea that the cycles of world history had led from one great empire to the next and had finally culminated in American modernity.
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Toby: «We can sit back and admit with grave sensitivity that life isn't fair and the less - advantaged are destined to their lot in life and the problems of those on the other side of the world should stay there, that our leaders are cynical and can never be an instrument to change, but that, my friends, is not worthy of you, it's not worthy of the President, it's not worthy of a great nation, it's not worthy of America.»