Sentences with phrase «from grandiose visions»

Business plans often detract from grandiose visions because they are inherently formulaic.

Not long after founding Facebook in his Harvard dorm room, CEO Mark Zuckerberg stopped talking about the company as a social site and started telling people he was building a digital phone book for the new millennium, and he never wavered from that grandiose vision.

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We'll approach this from the end and work backward, and get the downside out of the way first, because, whether or not you're fully aware of how Ground Zeroes slots into Hideo Kojima's grandiose vision for Metal Gear Solid V, this eagerly anticipated return of Snake does most of what you'd expect of it, confidently refreshing the series» core mechanics, adding some much - needed narrative gravitas (and restraint) and blowing the tightly wound stealth antics wide open in a miniature sandbox that endures countless retreads.

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.