| 单词 | superiority |
| 例句 | Soon he is taking Marie-Laure along on various errands again, teasing her about the mountains of sugar she spoons into her coffee or bantering with warders about the superiority of his brand of cigarettes. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z He too felt the superiority of the horseman. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z I do not think I ever really hated him until he had that little spell of superiority at lunch—that and when he went through all that barbering. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z His momentary burst of exultation, and his feeling of superiority over Hooper counted for nothing, they were always short-lived. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z Maybe a victor should show more restraint, more superiority, especially when she knows this will be on tape, but I don't care. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z She'd covered these lessons back in the third grade and took every opportunity to demonstrate her superiority. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z All four of them gave off an air of superiority and power that frightened Amari. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z He feels an indulgent superiority whenever he sees these evidences of the white man’s frailty. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Separating himself out led to confidence and a sense of superiority that itself felt like an achievement, he writes. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z Those looking for a tale of cultural superiority can find it in zero; those looking for failure can find it in the wheel. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z He was still in numerical superiority, but his nerve was now gone for good. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z They were frightened, and so they fought Nations were like people—they had feelings of inferiority, or of superiority, or of revenge, or of fear. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z In part because of his undistinguished origins, Hamilton always seemed compelled to be proving himself; he needed to impress his superiors with his own superiority. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Men muttered in small cabals or threatened one another by the fireside, cutting each other with their eyes and hissing, vaunting superiority in their familiarity with the Unseen. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z He was a simple man who had no inferiority complex about his lack of education and, even more amazing, no superiority complex because he had succeeded despite that lack. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z For Gammas, Deltas and Epsilons had been to some extent conditioned to associate corporeal mass with social superiority. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z "Guddat, why are you singing English songs?" says the leader, with an air of superiority. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z The overwhelming military superiority of even tiny numbers of mounted Spaniards, together with their political skills at exploiting divisions within the native population, did the rest. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The Mi’kmaq in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia scoffed at the notion of European superiority. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The French have decided to ignore our self-proclaimed superiority, and this is translated as arrogance. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z An absolutely certain way in those days to draw down on one a wretched fate was to claim superiority in anything over any deity; nevertheless people were perpetually doing so. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z In their unquestioning acceptance of their own superiority, whites were unable to entertain the possibility that many blacks considered living next door to whites as the cost of obtaining adequate housing. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z So then Garrett gets going about Georgia Tech’s superiority to Georgia. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z It was possible that the contemplation of a crooked finger, the unbearable idea of other minds and the superiority of stories over plays were thoughts she had had on other days. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z The culture of Truman theater and the weight of Volpe’s four-decade legacy has its drawbacks—and not just that some of the kids from other schools might resent their air of superiority. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z Asserting their superiority is like saying that the motley mob at a football game is somehow intrinsically superior to the closely related attendees of a family reunion. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Given our father’s characteristic air of superiority, I secretly expected him to live in a manor house surrounded by grounds and serviced by a liveried staff. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Two years earlier he had baldly compared ‘the superiority of the revelation through Jesus Christ to that through Abraham and Moses’. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Everything Will could see spoke of wealth and power, the sort of informal settled superiority that some upper-class English people still took for granted. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z But slowly and imperceptibly, with the passing of the seasons, his mockery and feeling of superiority diminished. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z “Because you have a weakness for beautiful things and I don’t,” I say with an air of superiority. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z He was intimidated by this uniformed superiority and the offhand authority in Merridew's voice. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z We clamored out of the camp, all elbows and bravado, feeling our superiority, owning our luck. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z He was not sure why he had said that, perhaps to shock the redhead out of his complacent superiority. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z But later historians have naturally turned the phrase ‘Whig history’ back against Butterfield himself, accusing him of taking for granted the superiority of modern science over all that went before. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The earthquake had already done half the work for him, proving the automobile’s superiority to the horse in utility. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “You bliddy snobs with your stuck-up schools and your stinking English superiority! But I’m going to show you. I’m going to give you what you deserve!” Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z Is it clear why I have said that the American white man’s malignant superiority complex has done him more harm than an invading army? The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z His fastidious sense of superiority lined his voice as he waved her in and asked her to wait for him while he finished up in his study. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z His thoughts turned to linear acceleration, the technology that Lawrence had been developing with David Sloan at Berkeley until the cyclotron demonstrated its superiority in 1931. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z It was to be a testament to German ingenuity, to its cultural superiority, and to its growing power. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z I saw that I had upset him far more than I had upset myself, and the realisation of this calmed me and gave me a feeling of superiority. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z At one point, he was spotted in a parking lot with an armful of anti-Semitic flyers that promulgated the superiority of the Aryan race. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z These discriminatory barriers were designed to encourage lower-class whites to retain a sense of superiority over blacks, making it far less likely that they would sustain interracial political alliances aimed at toppling the white elite. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z "He's got this Jewish superiority so strong that he thinks the only emotion he'll get out of the fight will be being bored." The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z “Mostly by one country badly offending another,” answers Albert with a slight air of superiority. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z The affection of the whole family, the warm attachment of Miss Campbell in particular, was the more honourable to each party from the circumstance of Jane’s decided superiority both in beauty and acquirements. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z Fermi’s associate Franco Rasetti came away from a brief visit in 1935 astonished at the “enormous superiority” of the twenty-seven-inch cyclotron for the production of neutrons, far beyond anything available in Europe. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z We played the same sports and the same positions in those sports—at times, a test of our friendship in a way that his superiority in shop class was not. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z I enjoyed a flitting sense of moral superiority, but not for long; he was too incalculable. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z I told myself that I did not like his Hasidic-bred sense of superiority and that it would be a great pleasure to defeat him and his team in this afternoon’s game. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z And all of this conduced to convince not simply Miss Nsia of his superiority to me in every way, but me as well. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z He had half hoped she would start screaming and swooning, so that he could show his manly superiority. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z It was multicultural, but only as a way of demonstrating America’s superiority over all. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Given the claims emanating from Berkeley about the superiority of the cyclotron for all varieties of nuclear research, the oversight demanded a deeper explanation than simply a miswired switch. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “Once when complaining of the Nestors’ attitude of superiority, you said the technicians had taught them all they knew.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z The fourth question asked which church was built by the emperor Justinian to demonstrate his superiority to the late Theodoric’s Ostrogothic successors. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z In the antebellum South, the lowliest white person at least possessed his or her white skin—a badge of superiority over even the most skilled slave or prosperous free African American. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The anger at his superiority on the roof. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z I approached the soldier with an air of superiority and thrust out my papers. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z ‘An accountant would never again be painted in a relation of superiority to a nobleman.’ The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z They wanted to feel the superiority and invincibility that had once been theirs, to stake a claim once again to Friday night. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The Career Tributes tend to gather rowdily around one table, as if to prove their superiority, that they have no fear of one another and consider the rest of us beneath notice. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Bernard gave his orders in the sharp, rather arrogant and even offensive tone of one who does not feel himself too secure in his superiority. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z As a last defense I had always taken refuge in a scornful superiority, based on nothing. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps it was because he did not have that familiar superiority of English people who thought they understood Africans better than Africans understood themselves and, instead, had an endearing uncertainty about him—almost a shyness. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z “I soon noticed that, after losing a few games of chess, my opponent talked less of masculine superiority,” she wrote in her autobiography. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z After a few minutes of conversation in which I established most easily my moral superiority over this degenerate, I found myself pondering once more the crises of our times. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yes, vanity is a weakness indeed. But pride—where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good regulation.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z In these cases the first belief has the facts on its side and the second doesn’t; one version of natural philosophy established itself over its opponent through the superiority of its grasp over nature. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z I flew back to Miami feeling that it was Allah’s intent for me to help Cassius prove Islam’s superiority before the world- through proving that mind can win over brawn. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z I told the court that we believed we could achieve our demands without violence, through our numerical superiority. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The first was that England was “tottering to her fall,” that her economy was collapsing and “she must soon be a bankrupt and unable to maintain her naval superiority.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z "No amount of heroism or discipline by an Inka army,” Hemming wrote, "could match the military superiority of the Spaniards.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Concealed at the top of Figure 19.2 is our first surprise, a big shock for Eurocentric believers in the superiority of so-called Western civilization. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Suddenly the causes of Asian math superiority become even more obvious. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z It seemed to give him a certain superiority. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z One thing I do know about my dad is that he hates racism and homogeneity more than anything, and not because of any feelings of self-righteousness or moral superiority. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z I was embarrassed by this superiority, because I did not feel superior to him in any other way. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z She wears Erudite blue and Erudite spectacles and an Erudite look of superiority that I was taught by my father to hate. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z I saw expressions on people’s faces that I’d never seen before, something like anxiety and superiority and paranoia all mixed up in one polite grimace. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z They returned to their original claims of superiority. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z She had the determination, the superiority, that comes with intense anger. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z They were simply emboldened, floating on an ancient tide of superiority, buoyed by the fact that history had never told them anything different. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Though he pretended to be above such ideas as racial superiority and spoke with genuine warmth, the entire context of his talk reeked of preconceived ideas to the contrary. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Too many of the more militant leaders are preaching Negro superiority. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “The pleasant feeling of vast superiority, the easy success with women—” “Monster!” he howled. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z From my own point of view, the fact of the Third Reich alone makes obsolete forever any question of Christian superiority, except in technological terms. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries gunpowder, printing and the compass were the three inventions of modernity most frequently cited to prove the superiority of the moderns to the ancients. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z He arrived at the Rad Lab skeptical about electromagnetic separation, having been convinced of the superiority of gaseous diffusion by his technical advisors, who came from a petroleum industry familiar with that technology. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Half my mind told me to cool it; to acquiesce to his claims of racial superiority and predestination. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z In the Korean language, they signified the seniority and superiority of Shin the teacher over Park the apprentice. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z White complacent face, sense of bland enormous superiority: my dear man, you have to live among them, you simply don’t understand. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z As a victim, the Savage possessed, for Bernard, this enormous superiority over the others: that he was accessible. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z With the confidence born of a conviction of superiority, they performed well at schools. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z Tolkachev's espionage helped America achieve total air superiority by the late 1980s, earning him the nickname "the Billion Dollar Spy." Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Over the course of two days of instruction, she convinced the blue-eyed students that they were not as smart, worthy or human as their brown-eyed peers, who were rewarded for their supposed superiority. The Return of Jane Elliott 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z But her portrait also includes the novelist’s sense of moral superiority and other shortcomings. ‘My Life in Middlemarch’: looking through a novel’s lens 2014-02-12T20:11:16Z Every now and then, that look of sarcasm mixed with suspicion returned and seemed to telegraph a feeling on his part of both bafflement with me and superiority. The Indian wedding that exploded in violence 2015-01-01T05:00:00Z In this context, all laughter is mocking, and all of it is an indication of superiority over the victim. Royal pranksters have gone from hunter to hunted 2012-12-09T20:30:06Z An open-and-shut case for the superiority of the original. ‘Don Carlo’ or ‘Don Carlos’? Verdi Comes to the Met in French 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z They meticulously identify and attempt to address potential criticisms, including charges of ethnocentrism, prejudice and cultural superiority. The dangerous myth of “The Triple Package”: What Amy Chua gets wrong about Asian-American communities 2014-02-13T17:37:00Z The act is a display of their innate superiority. The surprising sexual fluidity of “Elle”: Paul Verhoeven’s latest shows he’s come a long way since “Basic Instinct” 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z The societal default is white superiority and we are fed a steady diet of it 24/7. 11 ways white America avoids taking responsibility for its racism 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z While Kipling will doubtless continue to roil 21st-century readers, to simply dismiss his work with a boo or smirk of cultural superiority reveals little but cultural ignorance. In defense of Rudyard Kipling and ‘The Jungle Books’ 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z The film has a farm-to-table sensibility, proclaiming the culinary superiority of beef that isn’t raised agribusiness-style and shipped halfway around the world. Review: Steak (R)evolution Travels the World to Find the Best Beef 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z The East was convinced that athletic success proved the superiority of socialism. No one left to hate 2012-07-31T20:10:00Z Meanwhile, the dupees can claim the superiority of their original product. In Gen Z’s world of ‘dupes,’ fake is fabulous — until you try it on 2023-03-22T04:00:00Z But this exhibition suggests that if he were still with us, he’d like Iré and Ocampo, whose own irreverence for all forms of authority — including artistic — match his disdain for every sort of superiority. The ghost of Goya rises in L.A.'s Chinatown 2017-04-19T04:00:00Z The story insists so fiercely on the moral superiority of saucer-eyed, childlike belief in these figures, that the film could be a massive satirical hoax by Richard Dawkins. Rise of the Guardians – review 2012-11-29T21:45:01Z Science has tried and failed to come to a consensus about the hygienic superiority of one product over the other. Hand dryers v paper towels: the surprisingly dirty fight for the right to dry your hands 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z The bullying sense of superiority is unmistakable, even when he tries to gussy it up in a mantle of freedom. Preaching Freedom, Ron DeSantis Leads By Cracking Down 2023-02-27T05:00:00Z The gaze is used as a strategy to affirm white superiority. "Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse" is beyond subtitles — and the white gaze 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z After Oregon sent free apples to Congress to prove their superiority, New York retaliated by sending 75 apple pies to the Capitol. Why apple pie isn’t so American after all 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z I am often skeptical of claims of vinyl’s superiority, but when listening to one of Electric Recording’s albums of Bach’s solo violin pieces played by Martzy, I was stunned by their clearness and beauty. The Vinyl? It’s Pricey. The Sound? Otherworldly. 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z And so my social unease was cosseted by the gentle emollience of vague superiority. If Shonda Rhimes Can Say Yes, So Can I 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z The fact that this is presented as a compliment, as evidence of female superiority, doesn’t make it better. Review: Ethan Hawke Is Just Right as a ’90s Indie-Rocker in ‘Juliet, Naked’ 2018-08-15T04:00:00Z A dogmatic, winner-take-all techno-determinism, which sees streaming as the inevitable and perhaps welcome death of an old-fashioned, inefficient activity, is answered by an equally dogmatic sentimentality about the aesthetic and moral superiority of traditional moviegoing. The Movies Are Back. But What Are Movies Now? 2021-07-15T04:00:00Z The point seems to be that London was once the epicentre of empire, a trading nation whose instinct is to absorb influences while periodically, peevishly, attempting to prove national superiority. London: The Modern Babylon – review 2012-08-02T19:00:01Z In “Frontières,” he is grappling with the impact of rich nations on poor ones, and the pervasive presumption that wealth equals cultural superiority. Review: ‘Frontières Sans Frontières,’ Where Poverty Is Photogenic 2017-03-06T05:00:00Z In “Camp Siegfried,” about two teens who fall in love at a Nazi youth camp in Long Island, that faith is in the cancerous myth of Aryan superiority. ‘Your Own Personal Exegesis’ Review: Blessed Be the Young and Lustful 2022-12-06T05:00:00Z By the same token, a sense of innate superiority is the flip side to the desperate yearning for reputation. From ancient castles to mega-yachts: what history teaches us about the super-rich 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z The 4 Little Indians imagine that their moral superiority and clever theatricality will somehow shame and cleanse the townspeople who witness the faux lynching. The most unsettling, must-read novel this year: ‘Welcome to Braggsville’ 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z His plight is so human, his mourning so understandable, that it is startling when he reminds us of his belief in the superiority of the white race. ‘Small Great Things’ is the most important novel Jodi Picoult has ever written 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z A white person wouldn’t use it around a black person unless meaning to offend or assert superiority — except perhaps now and then in the context of an especially close humor. Riff: How William Faulkner Tackled Race — and Freed the South From Itself 2012-06-30T04:00:04Z Amy is a terrific role for Graves, who mines every seam of daughterly resentment and superiority as the young adult swearing she doesn’t need rescue by her powerful mother in a dangerous Iraq. Review | The British hit ‘Oil’ strikes a vein in its U.S. debut at Olney 2019-03-04T05:00:00Z The movie exalts the superiority of inexpensive real food, served on the street, for real people in the American melting pot. Movie Review: ‘Chef,’ a Culinary Comedy by Jon Favreau 2014-05-08T19:55:37Z After a lethal fracas they go on together to a primitive Texas township where the confident Schultz demonstrates his superiority to the crooked sheriff, the dim federal marshal and the prejudiced settlers. Django Unchained – review 2013-01-20T00:06:00Z I had definitely found a figure strong enough to counter the lectures on racial superiority and seafood. Inspiration Information: 'The Whispering Muse' 2014-05-13T04:00:00Z But “divergence” itself, as an inherent mark of rebel superiority, feeds an even more basic fantasy—of teen exceptionalism. The Apocalypse Will Be Like High School 2015-03-21T04:00:00Z To respond to art as we have been conditioned to do divides us rather than unites us, and encourages unwarranted feelings of superiority. The war on culture: How conservatives and progressives joined forces to crush art 2021-12-25T05:00:00Z If anything it better establishes the arrogance of invading forces and how foolish assumptions of superiority can lead to a land's and a people's undoing. "Dune" is the masterful adaptation of Frank Herbert's epic we've been waiting for 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z “You do acknowledge their existence, but in a fashion that maintains your sense of superiority — indeed, that reinforces it.” ‘Excellent Sheep,’ William Deresiewicz’s Manifesto 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z The era of chivalry was the idealised fantasy that grew out of the military superiority of the armed horseman, and which lasted roughly between the invention of the stirrup and the invention of gunpowder. For Honour and Fame: Chivalry in England 1066-1500 by Nigel Saul ? review 2011-07-22T21:55:04Z After initially shielding herself with a flimsy dorm-room curtain, she emerges, fully nude, and explains, with an air of superiority, that she simply could not resist taking on a lover with the name Asdrubal Electorat. ‘On a Magical Night’ Review: Ghosts of Lovers Past and Present 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z According to Gottman, the real poison comes in the form of a superiority complex. The “kiss of death”: One behavior, above all, can doom a relationship 2016-03-07T05:00:00Z In 2018, white nationalists were reportedly chugging it to show off their genetic superiority in lactose digestion. The Milk Situation 2020-03-14T04:00:00Z Baudelaire, however, in his great essay of 1855, “On the Essence of Laughter,” pried into the attitudes that he saw enshrined in our will to laugh—into our superiority over one another, and over nature. Shooting the Jesters 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z He also wants to demonstrate his intellectual superiority over his spouse by pretending his word choice is acceptable because he has such a powerful vocabulary. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Husband won’t stop offensive name-calling because it’s ‘too fun’ 2021-11-08T05:00:00Z He refused to acknowledge the company’s past successes—and those who had a hand in them—for fear of projecting the slightest doubt regarding the overwhelming superiority and necessity of his new product. Aaron Sorkin Hates Screens 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z “And intellectual superiority is, de facto, moral superiority.” ‘She Should Be Revered, and She Is Not’ 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z But comfortable superiority is the death of comedy. TV–Or Streaming Video–Tonight: Alpha House on Amazon 2013-11-15T13:30:44Z Addressing the piece “Dear White Supremacy,” the Chicago-based musician launched into an emotional screed about race in America, mixing earnest emotion with sharp irony to tear down notions of white superiority. Dear White Supremacy: Nothing about you “cognitively, academically, socially, architecturally, culturally or even financially … signifies a higher position,” says Lupe Fiasco 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z To not criticise them on the grounds that they may be offended is, paradoxically, to perpetrate the very superiority that the rhetoric of "respect" is designed to counteract. That's Offensive! Criticism, Identity, Respect by Stefan Collini ? review 2011-01-09T00:05:52Z Now cited as a classic example of scientific racism—the attempt to prove racial superiority through pseudoscientific methods—the book drew numerous unfounded conclusions. Hitler’s favorite American: “Biological fascism” in the shadow of New York City 2014-03-23T10:58:00Z The mistake, in his view, was for independent coffee shops to define themselves in opposition to Starbucks and other chains, and to create — inadvertently — a culture of nerdy superiority. Has Coffee Gotten Too Fancy? 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z As late as 1947, he was still hailing the “organic superiority” of the German symphonists; two years later, he decried the “biological insufficiency” of atonality. A Conductor’s Impossible Legacy 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z Yet, above all, it is a tender comedy that is ready to question the superiority of laughter to sadness, and that finds in the laughter of others something punishing and hard. The Boulting brothers: holy fools 2013-07-26T13:00:19Z I believe a strong America must – and will – lead the future.He doesn’t see the need for overwhelming American military superiority. Victorious Romney warns against 'bitter politics of envy' 2012-01-11T01:49:00Z The superiority of a triple-tagged specimen is evident now in a sea of potted snowdrops. The mysterious appeal of the dainty snowdrop 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z Shori's black skin is a sought-after evolutionary advantage, which could protect her species from the sun, which runs counter to racist constructions of white superiority. Three essential tales of black vampirism 2022-11-07T05:00:00Z In misogynistic and alt-right circles, “red pilling” is the art of luring recruits by convincing them of the superiority of white men in the face of an evil cultural conspiracy against them. Perspective | Wolfie James and the insidious role of female white nationalists 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z The comment section on this is full of people who reek of self imposed social superiority and probably aren't very fun at parties. How HQ Trivia Became the Best Worst Thing on the Internet 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z Thomas’s visceral hostility is exacerbated by Damien’s air of superiority and by the rhinestone earring he wears. Review: In ‘Being 17,’ 2 Boys Teeter Between Animosity and Attraction 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z The Shays were everything I’d never been, and nothing I’d ever wanted to be, and yet, despite my snide superiority, I was fascinated and envious. Lost in Las Vegas 2011-02-04T19:55:00Z Covering hundreds of years with ease, this adaptation of Kendi’s best-selling book for adults explores how the idea of white superiority has affected the course of American history. Best children’s books of 2020 reveal a growing diversity 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z American superiority was the default doctrine, taken on faith, without any evidence or analysis necessary. The right wing hates America: The loudest flag-waving patriots are always the dangerous hypocrites 2016-05-22T04:00:00Z Smith’s narrative conveys the system’s unthinking superiority, the lazy morality, the philistinism, the sense of demanded privilege and analyzes it cannily. A Kinder, Gentler Portrait of Prince Charles 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z Reviews of the first “Shuffle Along” — and of the many black musicals and revues that flooded Broadway in the wake of its success — habitually remarked upon the superiority of black chorus dancers. In Savion Glover’s ‘Shuffle Along,’ Tap’s Reach Has Its Limits 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z Nor is he an American theoconservative, with its attendant claims to moral superiority. Edmund Burke: Philosopher, Politician, Prophet by Jesse Norman – review 2013-05-19T09:00:02Z But it is still wafer-thin in its invention and technique, designed to please Victorian bourgeois audiences with easy tunes and parodies that only demonstrate the vast superiority of the original over the copy. ‘Pirates of Penzance’ Gives Lift to English National Opera 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z His function is to narrate the tale and to signal his superiority to the material with an occasional reference to 1980s pop music or a diet fad. ‘Artemis Fowl’ Review: Fowl, Not Fair 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z But the series never takes an attitude of easy superiority to its showbiz characters. ‘BoJack Horseman’ Returns for a Hilarious and Hallucinatory Season 3 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z Buck would become a fiery critic of the missionary mind-set, warning against the smug sense of racial superiority she often witnessed. Books of The Times: ?Pearl Buck in China,? by Hilary Spurling 2010-06-09T00:02:00Z Gatsby is about the superiority of imagination over reality, which makes it very difficult to dramatise well. What makes The Great Gatsby great? 2013-05-03T18:00:00Z His act, such as it was, vacillated between sentimental declarations of solidarity with the audience and reminders of his own superiority. Critic?s Notebook: Belligerent and Boozy, and That?s Just the Audience 2011-04-03T20:27:46Z This is the time of year when weekend gardeners peer into the neighbors’ yards for confirmation of their own superiority or inadequacy. Television Review: ‘Secrets of the Dead’ Seeks Ancient Gardens 2014-05-05T21:45:41Z To demonstrate the superiority of the feline disposition, Gray must first dismantle the foolish notions we have of how to live — a task he’s always taken a sour kind of pleasure in. Review | We’ve been looking to philosophers to make sense of life. Maybe we should be looking at cats instead. 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z GoldenEye is the best Bond, confirmed by its superiority in the most important category of all, the lavishness of the villain's execution. My favourite Bond film: GoldenEye 2012-09-26T08:00:13Z “One of humankind’s great illusions is the belief in the total superiority of Homo sapiens over other species,” she replied. Cracking the Codes of Leena Krohn 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z As the Black owner of a trucking company, he has to be shrewd to contend with the unrefined racism of white truckers and the self-anointed superiority of oil executives. ‘I’m Charlie Walker’ Review: More Wink Than Wallop 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z But the reverse is also true, and Ms. Greenfield’s real achievement is to disarm the reflex of superiority that the spectacle of her subject’s way of life may provoke in some viewers. Review: ‘The Queen of Versailles’ by Lauren Greenfield 2012-07-19T16:06:31Z Yes, the seeds, clustered at the fruit’s core, were irritating, but nearly everyone in the industry acknowledged the Duncan’s superiority. The Death and Rebirth of the Duncan Grapefruit 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z In their place were colorful posters promoting Germany and its belief in racial superiority. Europe: 100 years of war and transformation And so they translated that into the superiority of blackness and control and maleness and authoritarian. Toni Morrison on Her Last Novel and the Voices of Her Characters 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z Here was someone who “held that artistic creation, rather than grubby moneymaking, was the key to human superiority,” she writes, “and that artistic creation of oneself was the highest calling of all.” Becoming ‘Self-Made’ Stars in a Secular Age 2023-06-25T04:00:00Z A true reckoning requires dismantling systems and symbols that support the idea of racial inferiority and superiority. Nine black artists reflect on the question: “Is America at a point of reckoning?” 2020-07-03T04:00:00Z Today, while the doctrine of European cultural superiority is disavowed by all but the crazies, the myth of Shakespeare's universality hangs tough. Shakespeare, universal? No, it's cultural imperialism 2012-05-21T13:00:03Z Lively’s main trait is a lofty bearing that conveys a mild boredom, a distracted air of superiority that suggests that she places herself a little bit above the rest. Blake Lively Lives Forever 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z “Bring Up the Bodies” devotes 270 pages to developing its hero, investing the reader in the superiority of his personality and cause, and then ushers him into the interrogator’s chair. “Tubes”: What the Internet is made of 2012-05-28T00:30:00Z At root it is an explanation of why Eurasians run the world: not because of any innate racial superiority but because of blunt geographical and biological facts. The great books giveaway 2011-03-04T11:19:03Z It’s empty-calorie drama, replacing real debate and character work with the quick thrill of canned superiority. Dead Tree Alert: Blowhardball: The Not-So-Special Comment of HBO’s The Newsroom 2012-06-21T12:53:34Z There was no sense of a Manifest Destiny, which may help explain Canada’s disinterest in asserting superiority. On Canada Day, Sampling Soulpepper’s Cultural Imports 2017-07-02T04:00:00Z Piranesi vigorously championed the superiority of Roman building, both in terms of engineering and richness of ornament, tracing its origins not to the Greeks but the Etruscans. Review: Piranesi's Elevated Etchings 2010-10-20T11:22:00Z It is the dark mirror of the Culture's aggressive moral superiority. The Hydrogen Sonata by Iain M Banks - review 2012-10-10T07:00:02Z “It’s harder to, I guess, bridge what seems like an air of superiority, and that has never, ever come into play with James.” With ‘Cyrano,’ James McAvoy Is Savoring a ‘Purer Form of Storytelling’ 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z To the time of cavemen, if only for the sense of intellectual superiority. Q&A: Rob Brydon 2012-08-10T21:59:02Z Jones calls on his fellow white Christians to extricate themselves from what he asserts has defined their religion for too long: the imagined superiority of white people and anti-Black racism as its inevitable corollary. Is the White Church Inherently Racist? 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z “It’s a moment that encapsulates all of the American values,” he said, adding, “the bravura, the nothing-is-impossible attitude, the technological superiority.” In ‘Grey Rock,’ a Palestinian Playwright Tackles the Ordinary 2018-12-30T05:00:00Z Much of the village’s hardship dates back to the disruptive visit of a British missionary who was determined to teach the superiority of Christianity to Nigerian pagans. Books of The Times: ‘Foreign Gods, Inc.,’ by Okey Ndibe 2013-12-29T22:31:18Z That very visceral sense of superiority felt novel for me. "Riot Baby" author on his novel of black superpowers: "I don't want justice. I want vengeance" 2020-03-07T05:00:00Z Although Beyoncé's feminism is light years ahead of unapologetically racist women, "Cater 2 U" locks her man's masculine fantasy of entitlement and superiority in place. A feminist reckoning for six Beyoncé songs 2021-08-22T04:00:00Z Some human remains were later used by German scientists in discredited scientific studies that aimed to document the racial superiority of Europeans over Africans and indigenous tribes. Museums Move to Return Human Remains to Indigenous Peoples 2013-05-24T16:08:12Z Icke calls Judaism an “incredibly racist” religion that preaches “racial superiority.” Letters to the Editor 2019-01-04T05:00:00Z But the aesthetic superiority of the movie actually works to its disadvantage. Unexpected Lessons From ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z Although eugenics has long been discredited, myths about racial superiority being a scientific rather than social construct have perpetuated racism and had traumatic effects on communities in Hawaii and beyond. In Hawaii, Reimagining Tourism for a Post-Pandemic World 2021-03-07T05:00:00Z Crippled by alcohol or laziness or bad luck, they have little interest in exposing their failings to each other — or to their perennially disappointed mother, that “impossible woman,” with her unshakable superiority, her proud insularity. Anne Enright draws a rich, Irish family saga in ‘The Green Road’ 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z Inside that down encasement, I understood the appeal of Canada Goose, which leads you to assume that the world will immediately recognize the superiority of your arm patch and, perhaps, your moral compass, too. The Rise of Canada Goose’s Hollywood-Friendly Coats 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z They showed up with their shaved heads, tattered boots, shouting slogans about white power and superiority. My college's response to a Nazi march taught me about the "true America" 2021-01-10T05:00:00Z The line “conveyed a comparative and unsupported superiority message.” DirecTV ends ad campaign with Rob Lowe 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z And as such it was able to confer a sense of superiority on its secular British audience. Rewind TV: The Kennedys; The Crimson Petal and the White; Louis Theroux: America's Most Hated Family in Crisis; My Brother the Islamist 2011-04-09T23:05:33Z "My feminism is slightly more expansive than that; it's also about thinking about the men differently, debunking ideas that attend male superiority." Helen Molesworth, MOCA's new chief curator, relishes the possibilities 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z She’s a perfectly programmed femme fatale: a widow entirely confident in her superiority over both genders – and her devastating appeal for men. The 50 best films of 2016 in the US: No 7 Love & Friendship 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z Fortunately, there is an alternative to Twitter, Facebook and all those indignant op-eds that we use to confirm the superiority of our beliefs. Perspective | Twitter is no place to consider abortion — but a novel might be 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z U.S. forces attacking Canada were repeatedly repulsed in 1812-1814, giving the Canadians a quiet superiority complex that they have not entirely lost to this day. God is a weapon 2012-06-21T14:00:00Z But what makes it worse is that many of these submissions put forward, either subtly or unsubtly, a perspective of male superiority, and implicitly, white man’s superiority. Racism in the classroom: When even our names are not our own 2013-12-11T20:52:00Z What’s more interesting is the question raised by Shatner of whether individuals who support left-wing views on social justice issues are advocating one group’s superiority over another, as opposed to supporting equality. Does William Shatner’s attack on “SJWs” erase his “Star Trek” legacy? 2017-07-31T04:00:00Z In the immediate post-9/11 years, patriotism meant subservience to right wing government, thoughtless support for war, and dogmatic belief in acceptance of “American exceptionalism” – the tenet of cultural and moral superiority. Barack Obama reclaimed patriotism for the left: How his 2004 DNC speech made a hopeful, inclusive America a core liberal value 2016-07-27T04:00:00Z Yet, in many quarters, brain-based explanations appear to be granted a kind of inherent superiority over all other ways of accounting for human behaviour. Human behaviour: is it all in the brain – or the mind? 2013-06-29T23:05:40Z On the one hand, the English pilgrims regard themselves as epitomizing civility, manners and thus superiority. Was There a Murder on the Mayflower? 2020-03-16T04:00:00Z The language used to justify the sport’s superiority is laced with machismo, and in some ways confirms the pervasiveness of Second City Syndrome. Gloves off 2012-08-10T23:30:00Z The fundamental superiority of paper never looked to be in doubt, though. Hand dryers v paper towels: the surprisingly dirty fight for the right to dry your hands 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z The way we are all coerced into enjoying things with an air of detachment and superiority. I have had enough of irony 2012-05-30T19:00:04Z Some claim their superiority, most suffer and a few pass. Review | ‘The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois’ is the kind of brilliant epic that comes around only once in a decade 2021-08-23T04:00:00Z They meticulously identify and attempt to address potential criticisms, including charges of ethnocentrism, prejudice, and cultural superiority. The dangerous myth of “The Triple Package”: What Amy Chua gets wrong about Asian-American communities 2014-02-13T17:37:00Z Her joints made no protest, and from a top bunk, she enjoyed a sense of superiority, with a bird’s-eye view of former industrial buildings. Bunk Rooms Climb the Social Ladder 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z The tactical superiority of the defence team was evident from the outset. The trial of Lady Chatterley's Lover 2010-10-22T11:00:00Z On the recordings, Smith was able to get Steven Tyler to discuss drug addiction, Bob Dylan to describe the ’60s, McCartney to admit his professional superiority and a host of other stories for notable names. Bono, Bob Dylan and Ella Fitzgerald Among Rare Interviews Soon Available to the Public 2012-06-19T10:45:32Z "Law enforcement offers it all: Comfortable wages, an exciting work environment and a false sense of superiority! So join the police force to serve, protect . . . and to control the poor." The "Whitest Kids U Know" — a cult classic comedy group whose sketches eerily foresaw the Trump era 2020-11-02T05:00:00Z Having secured the military principle of caste privilege, he is determined to show British superiority in engineering and administration. Peter Mullan's Neds heads London film festival's most-awaited list 2010-10-21T16:37:00Z He's an outsider hiding in plain sight who learns English and Earthly customs by binge-watching "Law & Order," but he's also a member of a race utterly convinced of its own superiority. Syfy's charming "Resident Alien" lets its star(man) shine, despite muddled metaphorical aspirations 2021-01-27T05:00:00Z It is a sculpture dedicated to the superiority of birth, and this theme is continued inside, with the great atrium hall reaching up to the sky, emblazoned with the arms and crests of every countess. Downton Abbey Returns to America: Writer Julian Fellowes Tells All 2012-01-06T09:59:10Z If the country rebuilt itself into such a buff economic specimen after World War II, it did so partly out of its belief in the superiority of both of these things to any other country’s. In Search of Japan’s Hidden Culinary Revolution 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z Such bland humor gently massages our liberal superiority while normalizing the president’s behavior. Perspective | Liberal satire is getting dangerously lazy in the Trump era 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z Jones is perfectly cast, displaying both naïve curiosity toward Robert and her own superiority over his social ineptitude. ‘Cat Person’ Review: A Viral Short Story Padded for the Big Screen 2023-10-05T04:00:00Z The set-to in this case was between those who applauded the “Memoria” strategy as a defense of the aesthetic superiority of going to the movies and those who scorned it as elitist and exclusionary. Is Moviegoing Undemocratic? 2021-10-06T04:00:00Z I’ve also seen the worst: bitter divisions, power grabs, posturing, language designed only to assert the speaker’s sense of superiority. Universities think I’m disposable, but my non-tenured status makes me a better teacher 2016-04-02T04:00:00Z Sinister's superiority to the first two pictures, however, is scarcely visible to the naked eye. Sinister – review 2012-10-06T23:05:48Z How unseemly it is to judge others, period, whose chief offense is to be different from you, as if the superiority of your way is a given. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: My boyfriend’s daughter sure is one brassy dame 2018-01-09T05:00:00Z Rather, it coolly aligns itself with the sensibility of the student who possesses nothing in this world but a kettle and an oblique sense of cultural superiority. The Hard Sell: Pot Noodle 2010-06-25T23:06:00Z Long ago the Borat character functioned as a truth serum, the kind of amiable ignoramus people were inclined to countenance or forgive either out of politeness or a sense of superiority. "Borat 2" makes an America slathered in misogyny and disinformation reckon with itself 2020-10-23T04:00:00Z When we talk about the three-martini lunch these days it is with contempt, with a pleasurable thrill of superiority. Cultural Studies: On ?Mad Men,? The Allure of Messy Lives 2010-07-30T21:05:00Z Money, above all – that is to say, the possibility of acquiring expensive objects, and a taste for displaying them as proof of your superiority. Elena Ferrante: ‘It is time to eliminate the concepts of winning, losing and failing’ 2018-06-16T04:00:00Z What makes the show addictive is the rush of combined envy and superiority it foments. The Sound of ‘Housewives’ Everywhere 2018-10-20T04:00:00Z Shakespeare was a powerful tool of empire, transported to foreign climes along with the doctrine of European cultural superiority. Shakespeare, universal? No, it's cultural imperialism 2012-05-21T13:00:03Z But Phil tries not to let these developments undermine his superiority. Celebrating Benedict Cumberbatch's best movie misfits 2022-03-26T04:00:00Z Income equality, or superiority, for women muddles the old, male-dominated dating structure. The End of Courtship? 2013-01-11T21:56:39Z If I’m reading a book, I’m assuming a kind of superiority over people who don’t make time to read. Donald Trump, Dante and the End of Your Elitist Tastes 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z “Whalebone stays in the 18th century and corsets in the 19th century forced the body to be perfectly upright,” says Bruna, noting that “being upright is a sign of superiority.” A New Exhibition Explores the History—and Architecture—of Underwear 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z I forged ahead, reminding myself of the superiority of handwriting to my wife’s e-mailing, which lacked the dignity of hard labor. The Lost Virtue of Cursive 2016-10-22T04:00:00Z Looking at minorities like Mormons, Nigerian immigrants, Asian-Americans and Jews, among others, Chua and Rubenfeld contend that successful groups share three traits: a superiority complex, feelings of insecurity and impulse control. Motherlode Blog: Any Chua and Jed Rubenfeld, ‘Tiger Couple’ 2014-01-30T16:12:07Z Dad often confronted him about his views but Opa only grumbled begrudgingly, his sense of racial superiority too firmly embedded to change. Should I be ashamed of my grandfather? 2016-02-13T05:00:00Z I’m going to enact the next phase of our national push for technological superiority by issuing a Walkman to each North Korean citizen. Style Invitational Week 1110: Write a [Someone’s] Mama joke 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z Doesn’t a long winter, like the miserable one we recently endured, provide us with a ready moral superiority? Rembrandt and Gerard Manley Hopkins: How to Take Comfort in Art 2014-05-20T04:00:00Z Its obvious superiority forced every other company selling expensive phones to copy Apple’s design or collapse. Apple Inc., ‘After Steve’ 2022-05-01T04:00:00Z Certainly there was no shift in the assumption of male superiority and power, and, in the 30s, grounds for the “old agitation” were as strong as ever. The 1930s: ‘Women had the vote, but the old agitation went on’ 2018-02-04T05:00:00Z He has even talked about foregoing gaudy championship rings, the traditional signs of superiority for professional players, in favor of some other kind of celebratory tokens. The Mavs' Big Winner: Mark Cuban's New Image 2011-06-17T09:15:00Z I find it more interesting that he had this desire, and most white politicians of that era would have believed in the racial superiority of the white man. "It's our foundation myth": PBS' "World on Fire" challenges the World War II narrative we know 2020-04-05T04:00:00Z According to Merriam-Webster, it’s “an advocate of male superiority or dominance” and is often used to promote traditional gender roles. Perspective | The coded language of the alt-right is helping to power its rise 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z And now I know what everyone else in America knows: that the show is fueled both by nostalgia and by its seeming opposite, a self-righteous superiority toward the benighted people of the past. Ad absurdum and the conquest of cool: Canned flattery for corporate America 2013-12-22T12:00:00Z The public conversation is so much better without name-calling and sneering and smug superiority. Perspective | Why making your diet part of your identity is bad for your health — and society 2020-09-23T04:00:00Z As a teenager, I was certainly convinced of my vast intellectual superiority over my parents, Professor Beddington and Professor Baldwin, in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary. Why your teenager thinks you’re an idiot 2016-06-25T04:00:00Z I found my sense of frenzied superiority in the whole gender role debate tiring. My motherhood martyr routine 2014-04-10T23:00:00Z Of course it’s also satisfying because each smackdown is followed by a resurrection, a shaky rise from the floor and a counterattack that telegraphs resolve, superiority and victory. ‘Mission: Impossible — Fallout’ and the Bliss of the Hyper-Human Tom Cruise 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z It's not fashionable to claim intellectual superiority these days, nor to care this much – and, in comedy, you must never do either without irony. Alfie Brown – Edinburgh review 2012-08-21T12:29:09Z The world’s best chess player is, at the very least, unique in his or her superiority, and that fact alone redeems the champion’s possible unfitness for other activities. Bobby Fischer, “Pawn Sacrifice,” and Movies About Geniuses 2015-09-16T04:00:00Z Notions like fate and familial superiority, which are prevalent in Star Wars and Harry Potter, are forsaken in favor of the more traditionally puritanical American ideal of hard work. Black magic surgeon: Doctor Strange brings the occult back to the big screen 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z Emphasis on the superiority of marriage makes social policy out of discrimination and prejudice. One marriage under god 2013-02-02T20:00:00Z Lib Wright, an English nurse who served in the Crimea under Florence Nightingale, arrives in a tiny village in rural Ireland bringing along an empire’s worth of snootiness and superiority. Review: In ‘The Wonder,’ the Morality of Letting a Child Fast 2016-09-18T04:00:00Z Over the years, Sheldon’s social awkwardness and off-putting superiority was woven into his friendships and eventual marriage as a matter of mirth, rather than being singled out for maudlin tonal shifts away from comedy. Perspective | So long to ‘The Big Bang Theory,’ which was smart about being dumb about being smart 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z Whatever you believe about the relative benefits of Medicaid to having no insurance at all, there is no serious debate about the superiority of private insurance to Medicaid. Economists Claim Medicaid's Health Outcomes are Great. Or Do They? 2012-08-01T06:38:59Z After all, we still live in a world carefully designed to dissolve the contributions of black Americans in the solvent of white superiority. Review | In Ta-Nehisi Coates’s ‘The Water Dancer,’ a slave makes a superhero’s journey 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z Here was elegance, superiority, order after chaos, black-white, clean lines, and it was all expressed by impeccable tailoring. Fashion Review: Paris Men?s Shows Offer Order Amid Chaos 2010-06-25T21:37:00Z Here, his hosts are seductive patrons and brutal colonizers, as pleased with their aesthetic superiority as they are with their racial dominance. Review | In ‘The Committed,’ Viet Thanh Nguyen continues his Pulitzer Prize-winning story 2021-02-22T05:00:00Z Gorgeous cinematography and a vibrant soundtrack only add to the film’s superiority. The 18 most memorable movies of 2018 — for better and for worse 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z Despite my initial moral superiority, I looked longingly at my phone across the room, yearning to caress it. Mommy, can you put down your iPhone? 2013-01-26T21:00:00Z One of your book's biggest themes is the superiority of books to e-readers. ArtsBeat: Q. and A.: Joe Queenan on Books Classic, Trashy and Otherwise 2012-11-30T15:00:16Z For fans who identify with that superiority, it’s not the bad news it might seem. Game of Thrones Research: Can 18 Million Viewers Be Niche? 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z There’s a tacit sense of superiority embedded in the clean lines of the Reformation project. The Vexed Appeal of Reformation 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z If you answer a question correctly, you still get that high of intellectual superiority. How HQ Trivia Became the Best Worst Thing on the Internet 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z But that moral superiority rests on an accusation of guilt that even its leading voices are utterly unwilling to make — except, notably, for Personhood USA. The moral deceit of pro-lifers: How Donald Trump accidentally revealed the true hypocrisy of the war on women 2016-04-09T04:00:00Z Mr. Metcalfe, who had originally cast Mr. Linville, said he wanted an actor who could play a much more formidable surgeon with a superiority complex. Burt Metcalfe, Who Left His Mark on ‘M*A*S*H,’ Is Dead at 87 2022-08-02T04:00:00Z To its credit, the film uses this instinctive prejudice as a lure to criticise Mildred’s, and implicitly the audience’s, false sense of superiority. Three Billboards' portrayal of dwarfism is reductive and ableist, and I would know | Eva Squire 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z Johnson’s other beliefs—the superiority of the rich over the poor, for example—he continued to promote. Philip Johnson, the Man Who Made Architecture Amoral 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z That merely meant race didn't factor into how he discriminated against others — his determination of superiority resembles Darwinism. "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds" ventures into the wrath of Khan's legacy through his descendent 2023-07-01T04:00:00Z You know, there's a kind of hairy superiority thing going on to do with, "Well, that's how we do things." "It's our foundation myth": PBS' "World on Fire" challenges the World War II narrative we know 2020-04-05T04:00:00Z While Braun’s exact brand of awkwardness doesn’t quite match the stumbling, yet unearned air of superiority that Robert possessed in the original story, he does manage to be imposing while also looking a little lost. ‘Cat Person’ Review: A Viral Short Story Padded for the Big Screen 2023-10-05T04:00:00Z According to Coward, they were Ivor's profile and his own wit – which reinforces my theory about his built-in sense of superiority. The Two Most Perfect Things – review 2012-07-09T17:37:06Z They are an anachronistic bunch even for 1979, all tweedy superiority with a gift for blanking out anything they don't want to hear. The Cherry Orchard 2010-04-20T22:30:00Z The idea of a facebook induces social comparison, which is a powerful drug, because it promises superiority. Facebook's greatest weapon: endless comparison of ourselves to others 2018-01-20T05:00:00Z To show that you are bored suggests rudeness, superiority, even contempt, none of which are endearing qualities. One big yawn: boredom is not just a state of mind 2011-07-16T23:05:46Z “When I met with the dean, it was the only time in my life when that sense of Yankee superiority worked in my favor,” Robert says. The Out of Towner: Where Lone Stars Don?t Feel So Alone 2011-06-23T22:25:49Z But what struck me was that, even though every person in that room thought dogfighting is repugnant, there was no hint of condemnation in our discussion, no whiff of moral superiority. Perspective | Feeling discouraged about the state of the world? Drop in on a book club. 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z She said "We Need to Talk About Kevin" is an examination of "a certain left-wing superiority to one's own culture," so she now tries not to fall into that trap. Author Lionel Shriver takes on US health system 2010-06-03T12:31:00Z Russell's apparent acceptance of Monroe's bombshell superiority – and ability to parody it – won her lots of friends. Jane Russell: a life in clips 2011-03-01T14:17:00Z But I cannot claim any moral superiority over others who do because, well. Opiate For the Masses: Do you like to watch? Your secrets are not safe with your TV 2017-02-11T05:00:00Z Germany's self-styled "comedy ambassador" to Britain has a high-status routine that trades on his country's supposed superiority. Henning Wehn ? review 2011-03-04T18:06:05Z The term “Fine Art” has often been used to separate out that second meaning, but I hate how that “fine,” and those capital letters, implies some kind of superiority. The Supreme Court May Force Us to Rethink 500 Years of Art 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z There was Raymonde Zehnacker, a solidly built assistant that the couturier called “my second self,” yet who struggled to maintain her superiority as new favorites came and went. Once Upon a Time 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z What really irritates me is the effortless assumption of male superiority that suggests male fantasy lives are more serious and real than female ones. Sex and shopping are no worse than gadgets or guns 2010-05-31T06:00:00Z The suspicion persists that the piece is a joke on the French, a sort of Trojan Hand meant to project American superiority rather than sympathy. Jeff Koons Unveils His Iffy “Bouquet of Tulips” for Paris 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z The aesthetic criteria that were supposedly invented to support high culture's claim to superiority have not been scrapped. The war on culture: How conservatives and progressives joined forces to crush art 2021-12-25T05:00:00Z With German forces fighting in Poland, Moorhouse says, France enjoyed a three to one advantage in troops in an attack from the west, as well as superiority in air power and in armor. Remembering Poland’s Doomed Fight Against the Nazis 2020-08-14T04:00:00Z Rather than disparaging the past, The Brady Bunch Movie questioned the cultural superiority that each generation feels over the one before. Rise of the reboots gives new life to Rocky and Ghostbusters 2016-01-02T05:00:00Z Shakespeare repeatedly reminds us of Hamlet’s noble nature — his emotional, intellectual and moral superiority — so that we feel its loss more acutely. An actor transcends age: John Douglas Thompson melts away the years to play Hamlet at A.C.T. 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z Modish solipsists, however, are convinced that self-sacrifice is just another form of self-indulgence, a means of engendering self-satisfaction and asserting superiority over others. Please Give warns the well-off they can never be good 2010-06-21T10:44:00Z But we in the audience are, which grants us a squirmy moral superiority, even as the show asks us, gently, to examine what we are doing in our own lives to oppose hate. ‘Remember This’ Review: Finding Strength Amid Moral Failure 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z The superiority of female emotional intelligence may therefore be no myth. Gone Girl revamps gender stereotypes – for the worse 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z The show reveled in House’s deductive diagnoses but couldn’t leave the hero’s cool superiority alone: House was physically handicapped and deep down a mess. The TV Watch: Benedict Cumberbatch’s ‘Sherlock’ Is Back on PBS 2014-01-17T23:38:27Z He works with, but is temperamentally different from, Russia’s more combative culture minister, Vladimir Medinsky, who is known for aggressive assertions of Russian superiority and conservative values. In Putin’s Nationalist Russia, a Tolstoy as Cultural Diplomat 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z According to several headlines, Thomas slammed his daughter's "sense of superiority," erroneously claimed that he was being "shunned" by his daughter and likened the royal family to a "secretive Scientology cult." "Harry & Meghan": The 11 biggest bombshells from the final part of Netflix's tell-all docuseries 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z In each case, the man, assuming a position of intellectual superiority, establishes himself as the woman’s tutor-lover, only to lose her once she grows confident enough to leave him. Woody Allen and his sisters 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z The superiority of men in the game is so well established that the best female players have freely acknowledged it. How ‘The Queen’s Gambit’ Started a New Debate About Sexism in Chess 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z During one riff, Mr. Trump extolled the richness, history and, indeed, the superiority of Western culture. Trump Is Wrong if He Thinks Symphonies Are Superior 2017-07-30T04:00:00Z A. There was, here, at that time, a kind of universal, upper-class assumption of superiority. Julian Fellowes on Twists in the ‘Downton Abbey’ Season Finale 2015-03-01T05:00:00Z The intimacy is astonishing, and then this very strange separation happens, where you get trapped in a system of designated superiority, and this woman stays at that position. Mies Julie in London: 'Apartheid was an insane experiment' 2013-03-06T20:00:02Z The Emperor Is Naked and Uninteresting Maybe it’s part of our country’s Puritan heritage, of demonstrating one’s own purity and superiority rather than focusing on fixing problems or being compassionate. Hey, left wing: Quit griping! 2012-09-27T14:00:00Z Given this shift, traditionalists have been anxious to reassert the superiority of high culture to popular culture, or at least to those examples of popular culture they find morally or politically repugnant. The war on culture: How conservatives and progressives joined forces to crush art 2021-12-25T05:00:00Z Popularity contests like this are easy for book critics to dismiss, but they serve an important function: They confirm our superiority. Perspective | Goodreads Choice Awards: An annual reminder that critics and readers don’t often agree 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z But his entitlement was such that he refused to lower himself to the level of party, expecting the nation to call on him on the basis of his self-evident superiority. The Brilliant, Bitter, Unlikable Scion of an American Political Dynasty 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z It could telegraph changing times and America’s gaining technological superiority — themes perhaps picked up in Henry’s obsession with video games. ‘The Americans’ Season 5, Episode 5 Recap: Whole Lotta Shakin’ 2017-04-04T04:00:00Z Later, samples of his culinary lectures and clips from his 1970s cooking show on Channel 13 demonstrate his abiding belief in the primacy of food and even its superiority to language. Movie Review: ‘Fragments of Kubelka,’ Directed by Martina Kudlacek 2013-05-02T22:39:52Z They stroke our ego and our id, confirming our moral superiority while letting us lick the chambers of their poison hearts. Review | A ‘Talented Mr. Ripley’ pursues literary fame in ‘A Ladder to the Sky’ 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z This is not true: there is no automatic moral superiority on the centre-ground. DC's 'reservoir dogs' attack Chuck Hagel with oxymoronic ads 2013-01-24T21:32:43Z He gloried in his superiority to the police. Review | ‘American Predator’ reveals the chilling playbook of a serial killer 2019-07-02T04:00:00Z The French gastronomic meal was added to Unesco’s Intangible Cultural Heritage list in 2010 and there’s an underlying emphasis in the Cité on the superiority of French cuisine. Food fantasia: Lyon’s new gastronomy centre puts the world on a plate 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z The team wins, the fans experience a boost of superiority and self-esteem. No one left to hate 2012-07-31T20:10:00Z Andy Nelson of Nelson’s Green Brier Distillery waved a picket sign as his brother Charlie advocated the superiority of Tennessee whiskey. The remarkable resurgence of a liquor that Prohibition almost killed 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z And the show presents it as "normal" because it is, worthy of occasional jokes and knowing glances but not fear-mongering or moral superiority. The surprisingly sex positive "Resident Alien" 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z Joy in particular comes across as extremely odd, treating Elsa as a lover with superiority over all other animals. Tonight's TV highlights: Trawlermen 2010-09-27T23:04:00Z His principal vice is condescension, the unwillingness or inability to resist demonstrating his superiority to both his subjects and his readers. In His New Collection, ‘The Rub of Time,’ Martin Amis Takes On Everyone From Travolta to Trump 2018-02-28T05:00:00Z Jonathan is a type Isaac plays well, a reflective intellectual with a “need for moral superiority” who holds a lot of resentment and familial-religious angst behind that lush beard. Review: In ‘Scenes From a Marriage,’ a Couple Unhappy in the Same Way 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z The Whitney escaped sustained censure for its alliance, partly because America was still a cigarette culture, but also because museums still retained an aura of moral superiority left over from a more romantic era. Making Museums Moral Again 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z On the other hand, they deploy barbaric cruelty in order to defend that superiority. Was There a Murder on the Mayflower? 2020-03-16T04:00:00Z In that ambiguity, the assumed intellectual superiority that places Mark beneath the "normal" people watching him quietly collapses. Best theatre of 2012, No 7: Ganesh versus the Third Reich 2012-12-13T16:02:59Z We’re standing on a back porch in Bend, Ore., and Jazmin has been waxing poetic about the superiority of Mexican chickens. Did slaves catch your seafood? 2012-05-21T14:26:00Z H. L. Mencken once wrote that his definition of happiness included “a comfortable feeling of superiority to the masses of one’s fellow men.” Notes From the Book Review Archives 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z It’s coal in their stocking with a side of superiority — and, ironically, extra plastic, steel or other resources. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Don’t expect a recycling miracle on 34th Street 2020-12-01T05:00:00Z It also cautions against any species’ assumed superiority: When the trilobite elders first see Hai, they lock him in a cage. Can Puppets Save the World From Extinction? 2020-02-10T05:00:00Z Rousey studied the wrong “science,” because claims of supposed transgender superiority in athletics are categorically false and have zero scientific backing. Since when is Ronda Rousey a role model? 2015-10-17T04:00:00Z Virility is a misogynistic ideal in an obvious way—historically and etymologically, it’s tied to the idea of male superiority. When Men Wanted to Be Virile 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z Aloof, elegant and always clean, they radiate Buddha-like equanimity and spiritual superiority. Review: ‘Life of Cats’ Spotlights a Centuries-Old Fascination in Japan 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z However, there’s a one-note fanaticism in her Antigone that limits the character’s moral superiority, perhaps more than intended. 'Jean Anouilh's Antigone,' Greek mythology for the selfie era 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z With a smug sense of our own superiority, we downplay our ancestors’ real accomplishments to dwell on their moral failings. Perspective | Remember when high culture was revered? Louis Menand’s ‘The Free World’ made me nostalgic. 2021-04-21T04:00:00Z The Rock Hall takes into account “an artist’s musical influence on other artists, length and depth of career and the body of work, innovation and superiority in style and technique,” according to the criteria. Bon Jovi Leads 2018 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Inductees: ‘It’s About Time’ 2017-12-13T05:00:00Z The resources offered to the performers are dependent on their reaffirmation of our sense of the universality and greatness of Shakespeare – our sense of cultural superiority. Shakespeare, universal? No, it's cultural imperialism 2012-05-21T13:00:03Z That is, updating the colonial yarn of the westerner who is eventually accepted by an alien community and then asserts his inherent superiority by embodying the culture better than the locals. ‘So alien! So other!’: how western TV gets Japanese culture wrong 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z Where does Western women's superiority complex toward women of color around the world come from? “Put the fangs back in feminism”: Author Rafia Zakaria on how feminism loses relevance to whiteness 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z He thought of his father, who served in World War II, and his mother, who cared for soldiers who nearly died fighting against the Nazi ideals of white superiority. ‘He didn’t learn this at home’: What do you do if your child sides with neo-Nazis? 2017-08-15T04:00:00Z You want a fleeting feeling of moral superiority? How HQ Trivia Became the Best Worst Thing on the Internet 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z To them, mastering tennis and playing it better than most white people would help destroy notions of inherent white superiority. Why Arthur Ashe Is the Spiritual Father of Colin Kaepernick 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z These delirious Californians have made a career out of extolling the superiority of their home state, proving it with irresistible pop harmonies and catchy New Wave beats. 31 best bets at Bumbershoot 2012 — plus ticket info 2012-08-30T19:01:05Z But the more relevant concept in Vertov’s case is the “Kino-Eye,” his philosophy of cinematic representation, which asserts the camera eye’s superiority to the human eye. Machine Age Poet, Born in Revolution, Stifled Under Stalin 2011-04-10T01:03:01Z "Exterminate All the Brute" addresses imperialism and "the stubborn privilege of superiority." HBO's doc "Exterminate All the Brutes" asks: "When was American great — and who was it great for?" 2021-04-07T04:00:00Z Bush's Operation Desert Storm; offerings like "Rambo" and "Predator" channeled those feelings by turning inexpressive Mr. Universes into symbols of American superiority and battlefield glory. "The Expendables": Death of the old-school action hero 2010-08-13T11:01:00Z The team behind “Searching for … the Invisible World” are a bunch of big-city skeptics brimming with their assumed superiority over the small-town families whose lives they package each week into neat 42-minute segments. Otherworldly Horrors Envelop a Scripted Ghost-Hunting Reality TV Show 2023-09-23T04:00:00Z He writes, with a distinct air of superiority, that he got more out of meditation than they could possibly have been getting from all that substance abuse. In ‘Good Vibrations,’ Summer Fun Soured by Mike Love’s Score Settling 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z Intrigued, I approached the farmers, who sang the eggs’ praises and convinced me of their superiority. | A Chef in the Field: Duck Eggs 2014-04-17T19:35:50Z Filmgoers are invited to feel moral superiority over these benighted rednecks; maybe, however, this warm glow provides them with cover for an anti-Semitic impulse of their own. Why The Dictator isn't Great 2012-05-16T14:38:23Z By touting the superiority of Northern European bloodlines, American eugenicists fed Adolf Hitler’s delusion that Germans are members of a master race. Hitler’s favorite American: “Biological fascism” in the shadow of New York City 2014-03-23T10:58:00Z If anything, Trump’s wall is the embodiment of a longstanding illusion of American permanence and superiority. What Is the Status of Trump’s ‘Big, Beautiful Wall’? 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z But the Stone Roses' anthem is also an expression of independence over the irritant who's the subject of the song, and an ecstasy-fuelled but not unreasonable assertion of superiority over their largely drab indie contemporaries. Readers recommend: songs about showing off ? the results 2011-02-24T16:38:51Z The show follows Dahl in giving television a good kicking, and trumpets the superiority of reading over goggling. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – review 2013-07-01T06:00:08Z For their trouble, they receive nothing except a fleeting sense of superiority and, if everything breaks right, whatever dull rush comes when one of your tweets gets aggregated by Buzzfeed. Sports fandom doesn’t have to be miserable 2013-04-15T16:45:00Z The secret to the superiority of the cheese in this region, then and now, is the high butterfat content of the milk produced by brown swiss cows, which were originally imported from Switzerland. Overnighter: A Bit of Switzerland in Wisconsin 2011-09-09T18:55:00Z “Height is power in public art, and Roosevelt’s stature on his noble steed visibly expresses dominance and superiority over the Native American and African figures,” the panel wrote in its report, delivered in January 2018. Unanimous Vote Is Final Step Toward Removing Roosevelt Statue 2021-06-22T04:00:00Z On the one hand, you may be forgiven a frisson of self-righteous superiority, since whatever your own shortcomings, you are surely above such blatant acts of deceit and neglect. Movie Review: ‘What Maisie Knew’ Stars Julianne Moore and Steve Coogan 2013-05-02T21:53:30Z Cultural irony is an anxiety of investment, often a fleeting sense of superiority for such self-awareness, and a desire to latch onto edgy ideals of obscurity. Are millennials too cool for sincerity? The truth about our love affair with irony 2014-05-11T10:59:00Z Phillips, the author of the acclaimed novel “Prague,” is at pains to remind us of the superiority of Asia, sometimes to a fault. A Rich, Old-Fashioned Spy Thriller Set in Elizabethan England 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z Reporters started tracking down old-time Rangers from the Indian War days and celebrated their manly virtues, warping history in favor of white male superiority. The True Story of the Texas Rangers 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z Possessing absolute and never-ending superiority in developing and deploying the world’s most advanced and destructive arsenal of war. An American century of carnage: Measuring violence in a single superpower world 2017-04-01T04:00:00Z She takes satisfaction in her mental superiority to her F.B.I. handlers. Review: In 2 New Shows, F.B.I. Nerds Tangle With C.I.A. Babes 2019-02-24T05:00:00Z Signet’s superiority derived, in large part, from the quality of its paper stock, which was whiter and brighter than that of its competitors and without any dreaded see-through. Review | In praise of pretty books 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z They arrive in the hick town full of scorn and superiority, making all the cliched jokes about the locale and its folky inhabitants. Schitt's Creek: the five things that make it such perfect, Emmy award-winning TV 2020-09-21T04:00:00Z Back when fine art’s superiority to popular and folk varieties went unquestioned, its materials also were exalted: Oil paint and marble were considered inherently more noble than commonplace stuff. Review | In the galleries: Synthetic consumer products prove to be a natural medium 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z Blogs dedicated to “Justice for Meredith Kercher” call Ms. Burleigh a shill for the Knox family’s publicity juggernaut, “a relentless and mindless cheerleader for the superiority of all things American,” in the words of one. Between Journalist and Advocate: The Amanda Knox Case 2011-10-07T23:33:56Z There's no moral superiority in Beyoncé's position; it doesn't correct a problem in Songz's attitude or that of any other R&B Lothario. 2014 was a remarkable year for grown-up soul music 2015-01-05T05:00:00Z On Monday’s Raw, things were looking desperate for Stewart as Rollins was clearly taking advantage of his physical superiority. Watch Jon Stewart Kick Seth Rollins Where It Hurts 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z I try to offer that perspective to Sian, without superiority or judgment. 'She's 85 and can out-dance me': the joy of the age-gap friendship 2018-06-09T04:00:00Z Strachey’s despair sharply contradicts the palmy official reports he and other officials were sending to London about British military superiority. Revolutionary War Letters at Sotheby?s Show Gloom 2010-03-22T22:42:00Z The whole warped attitude of their "Trump-like" superiority and dominance due to prestige, fame and power underlies the attitudes of many of these abusers, and of their defenders, as we have seen. Alec Baldwin Skewers Trump. And Supports Allen and Toback. 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z The sense of superiority by which she has lived now seems a strange delusion; not only does she realize that she is, and always has been, devoid of direction; she’s devoid of will. Review: ‘Miss Julie’ Resets a Celebrated Drama in Putin’s Russia 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z For the rich and powerful it represents the superiority of profit over law and state. The myth of the cowboy 2013-03-20T18:00:01Z One great virtue of “Surrealism Beyond Borders” is how it thinks that opposition simultaneously, without unfounded superiority — and still places the regions these artists idealized on equal footing with Europe. Getting a Grip on Unreality 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z “Making Marvels” is about how royal courts vying for superiority promoted knowledge through displays of rare wonders and scientific prowess. Review | The Met is the world’s greatest art museum. Three under-the-radar shows confirm it — again. 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z I can’t guarantee you’ll win any pub quizzes by being such a stickler for the facts, but with any luck your superiority will keep you warm at night. Five silent movie myths: from damsels in distress to Benny Hill chases 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z Buck was born in West Virginia, but she was raised in rural China, the daughter of American missionaries, and she resisted the sense of Christian superiority many within her circle felt toward the “heathen” Chinese. The Remarkable Forgotten Life of H. T. Tsiang 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z This was a movement with T-shirts and hats and the added bonus of superiority over kids in school who couldn’t keep their clothes on, those sinners. My virginity mistake 2013-05-06T01:00:00Z This illusion of superiority and security, within which the bourgeois novelist traditionally practised his craft, has cracked in recent decades. Mo Yan, Salman Rushdie and censorship 2012-12-13T13:30:04Z For a while, she treasures this secret and the warm feeling of superiority over Felix. Lauren Oyler’s ‘Fake Accounts’ Captures the Relentlessness of Online Life 2021-01-26T05:00:00Z Played at Penguin with twinkling superiority and unearthly composure by Jonathan Fielding, the angel explains that he’s arrived to “shed some light” on the deep questions under discussion. | Westchester: I?m an Angel, and I?m Here to Help 2011-05-29T16:24:02Z Tall, pale, gawky and convinced of his superiority, he’s a caricature of a smarmy liberal white man convinced that he’s blond, blue-eyed Jesus’ gift to an ignorant world. “Jordan Klepper Solves Guns” answers crucial questions (unrelated to guns) 2017-06-11T04:00:00Z NICHOLS: I’ve spent a good part of my life lecturing people in other countries about the superiority of the American system. ‘This can’t be happening’: An oral history of 48 surreal, violent, biblical minutes in Washington 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z Both proclaim its originality and superiority to earlier works in the genre. Ill Manors – review 2012-06-09T23:08:05Z And though it would be a mistake to call Rogers nonjudgmental, his moral authority arises from empathy rather than superiority. ‘A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood’ Review: You Are My Friend 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z And it was expressed with the confident optimism generated by an enduring French sense of historical superiority. They think, therefore they are 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z Though some are more vague and oblique than others, what these idioms have in common is an implied attitude that at their worst, mullahs represent stupidity, blind dogma, moral superiority, repression, and greed. “Marriage is an uncut watermelon”: How translation brought my native language to life 2014-03-21T22:58:00Z The film’s title comes from the phrase coined by writer Jack London to describe a white fighter who might step up to combat the monstrous black affront to the perceived superiority of the Caucasian race. Creed adds to short list of boxing films starring a black hero 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z Americans often like jokes that include a sense of superiority. 13 Things You Probably Don’t Know About Laughing 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z Was their sense of superiority a matter of class, their father’s professional standing in town, or something else? Tessa Hadley on the Bonds of Childhood 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z But for all his moral superiority, he’s a rather impotent character — so troubled, so shocked, so insufferable. ‘The Son’: the brutal march of time on the plains of Texas 2013-06-06T20:37:35Z Amid rumors of some past glory, he radiated an air of long-suffering superiority, as though his willingness to teach mere high school students were another example of his largesse. Review | Susan Choi’s ‘Trust Exercise’ invites you to recall the highs and humiliations of adolescence 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z It might seem a stretch to argue for the full superiority of Fargo the TV show to Fargo the movie, which is pretty close to cinematic perfection. Box set blockbusters: when movies make better TV shows 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z It isn’t all debate about criminalization, though: It wouldn’t be the Internet without some superiority and Schadenfreude. Johns on Zumba prostitution ring 2012-10-17T00:00:00Z But they often had a tone of sniffy superiority to reality shows and those of us presumed knuckle-draggers who liked them. Review: In UnREAL, Art Imitates Life Imitating Life 2015-06-01T04:00:00Z When my grandma explained that she had to forgo both piano and ballet lessons, unlike her older sisters, I interpreted this to mean that self-denial equaled a kind of moral superiority. Consumerism is ruining our kids: from $350 kicks to four-figure strollers, we’re making our children into product zombies 2015-12-27T05:00:00Z They have successfully tied extermination of non-white peoples to laughable relief and white racial superiority to the natural order of things. Creating a spectacle of slaughter at the movies: Ambush at Kamikaze Pass 2019-08-17T04:00:00Z She is among those who ardently believe in the superiority of a Thanksgiving spent with friends. Friendsgiving, a new tradition to be thankful for Her magic was that she transformed herself into a credible romantic lead — at first through the superiority of her character and later physically. All hail Melissa McCarthy, Hollywood's indestructible comic superwoman 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z It is very funny and also captures how wine tasters can use language to assert cultural superiority. You can be a wine snob too! 2013-01-02T12:45:00Z She objects to all this and more with the confirmed superiority of someone convinced that she’s the smartest, bravest person in the room. Review | ‘The Motion of the Body Through Space’ is a fitness industry satire weighed down by its own heavy-handedness 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z Yes, the opera is better overall in French — but it is a subtle superiority. ‘Don Carlo’ or ‘Don Carlos’? Verdi Comes to the Met in French 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z Regarding his claims about so-called “SJWs” wanting superiority instead of equality, it is worth noting that his line of reasoning sounds an awful lot like the tripe you tend to find on Reddit. Does William Shatner’s attack on “SJWs” erase his “Star Trek” legacy? 2017-07-31T04:00:00Z However, ideas of the superiority of Western culture can do lifelong harm and inculcate hatred of one’s origins. Letters to the Editor 2020-08-07T04:00:00Z When a storm misses New York and hits Boston instead, we may even feel a tinge of superiority as we chuckle at the overreaction of our frenemies to the south. Following the Record Snow in Boston 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z Something about their exchange seemed to unwittingly summon a lingering awkwardness, a dynamic of superiority. Perspective | Ellen DeGeneres is sorry. ‘Ellen’ the talk show is still forcing a smile. 2020-09-23T04:00:00Z “The actor took that as a recognition of his superiority and stardom,” Lloyd said, laughing. The Magnificent Memory of Norman Lloyd 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z He continued to opine about the superiority of L.A. burritos as compared with their larger San Francisco brethren. Jonathan Gold Was Proof That Local Journalism Matters 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z Debate rages in barbecue circles over the superiority of apple versus cherry, hickory versus mesquite, or whether to employ a combination of several woods. 6 Steps to the Best Barbecued Ribs 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z The simplistic notion that kids need to be taught “exceptionalism,” a pervasive and often flat out inaccurate, bathed-in-glory vision of American superiority, has led to multiple educational skirmishes over the past few years. Oklahoma’s fight against AP history 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z Could this be the start of another season of the men proclaiming their superiority? "Hell's Kitchen" screams back to life 2010-06-02T19:01:00Z She got smaller, she lost beauty and cleverness, she stopped asserting her own superiority in everything, her words no longer had weight. Elena Ferrante: ‘One morning I looked at myself in the mirror and recognised my mother’ 2018-08-25T04:00:00Z Still, in Eisa Davis’s terrific performance, a character who might seem a humorless, civics-spouting Ms. Deeds instead comes across as one of those politicians, like Elizabeth Warren, who makes superiority feel almost glamorous. Review: In ‘Kings,’ Washington Is Where Idealism Goes to Die 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z “None was more insidious than their presumption of racial superiority.” Remembering the Enslaved Who Sued for Freedom Before the Civil War 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z Still, as it separated the polished from the petrified and culminated in each coach boasting about the superiority of his or her honed team of five, the evening brought us some terrific performances: 'The Voice' recap: The knockouts reach their end 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z This seeming lack of moral focus, along with scandals of drugs, bribery, and black-market tickets, erode the moral superiority of the Olympics. London 2012 anti-logos 2012-07-12T00:00:00Z And Angie’s own education perpetuated the same story of white superiority and Black inferiority at school, skirting around the 60 or so years during which the government kidnapped children. How food reveals the surpressed history of Chinese and Aboriginal Australian kinship 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z Another is that young people, if properly indoctrinated, will see the superiority of the music and movies their parents loved. Review: In ‘Death of the Liberal Class,’ a Writer Tones Down His Anger 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z Tuberculosis, a microbial infection characterized by sputum and wracking coughs, became the “romantic disease” of the 19th century, its fevers and pallor standing in for creativity, beauty and moral superiority. The Trouble With Autism in Novels 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z Considering the acoustical and environmental superiority of Millennium Park's Pritzker Pavilion over Grant Park's crumbling Petrillo Music Shell, this is cause to celebrate. The beat goes on at Millennium Park 2011-04-04T21:00:00Z We take credit for the improbable greatness, the objective superiority of our sweet Dungeness crab and lush local oysters, made sweeter and lusher by our frigid waters. Seattle vs. New England in the supper bowl: how our food cultures compare 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z The unnamed narrator of “Fake Accounts” is full of intellectual superiority and self-loathing, teetering “on the border between likable and loathsome.” Review | Two authors expose the deceptive, self-aggrandizing absurdity of online life 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z The awkward quips about the inferiority/superiority of Native Americans and refurbished feminism of the story are mostly misfires. Vicki Noon shines in 'Annie Get Your Gun' 2011-11-16T19:58:55Z Most industries, when depicted on stage or screen, are either hopelessly romanticised or thoroughly demonised, in such a way as to fill those who know the terrain with a pleasing sense of superiority. Career out of control: how Hollywood and Broadway portray professions 2012-12-12T22:42:17Z One constant theme is how decisions were influenced by a misguided concept of racial superiority. Their own worst enemy 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z The truth is that his pleasure does require a partner – since it resides in his feelings of superiority over the rest of his family, its levity depends on an audience. Pride and Prejudice at 200: looking afresh at Austen's classic 2013-01-26T08:01:00Z But the drama, with its Pirandellian inventiveness and daggers to the heart of smug social superiority, remains an evening of many dark and twisting delights. Like haunted houses? Step into ‘An Inspector Calls,’ a Broadway phenomenon now touring the country. 2018-11-27T05:00:00Z Is it a term that necessarily implies an assumption of superiority over so-called barbarians? Review | ‘Civilizations’ is the most ambitious story about art ever told on television 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z The members of the crew are friends, and they share an unarticulated dream: first, neighborhood superiority; then, who knows? What “Babylon” Captured About Racism and Reggae 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z Attractive, trendy and smug, they’re a Fun Couple, or would like you to think so anyway, the sort who encase themselves into in an enviable cocoon-for-two of superiority. Theater Review: In ‘Stockholm,’ the Blades Are Drawn From the Start 2013-08-23T21:34:28Z Even Bob, lap dog if not slob-dog, buys into his brother’s superiority. ‘The Burgess Boys’: old wounds, new conflicts, in a small Maine town 2013-04-03T22:32:19Z Intoning popular notions such as “cleanliness is next to godliness,” they had reinforced their sense of moral superiority over the “great unwashed” masses by bathing regularly and taking pride in the cleanliness of their houses. Did slaves catch your seafood? 2012-05-21T14:26:00Z It helps also that plenty of the most famous rappers — Jay-Z, Lil Wayne, Rick Ross and others — are also the most technically accomplished, upending the underground’s superiority complex. Critic?s Notebook: Reliving Rap?s Down-and-Dirty Early Days 2011-02-12T00:00:15Z This seems more likely, but wouldn’t this acknowledgement of superiority bring a kind of joy? “You are reading human words”: The case for typos in the age of spellcheck 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z It was during the Cold War that it hardened into a belief of the superiority of America’s brand of free-market democracy, which would be protected by projecting American power around the world. Will a Pandemic Shatter the Perception of American Exceptionalism? 2020-04-25T04:00:00Z The Rock Hall asks its voters to consider an act’s music influence and the “length and depth” of its career, in addition to “innovation and superiority in style and technique.” Dolly Parton Bows Out of Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Nomination 2022-03-14T04:00:00Z They covered existential fears about loss of self; sexual ambiguity; deceitful sexual partners; and the self-delusion of humankind's superiority to the natural world. Readers recommend: songs about mistaken identity ? the results 2011-01-27T17:21:22Z Open for about two years on an unlikely corner just a hurled pint glass away from rowdy lower Sixth Avenue, it exudes calm, and perhaps a touch of moral superiority. Critical Shopper: A Step in the Smart Direction 2010-09-16T03:50:00Z The show is generous in spirit, too, even to characters who first seem to be antagonists; Tricia, for instance, begins on a note of church-lady superiority but grows more nuanced and sympathetic. Review: In ‘Somebody Somewhere,’ Home Is Like No Place 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z But whatever the instances of assimilation and translation, they never come across as a result of a Western superiority complex. ‘Avatar: The Last Airbender’ Imagines a World Free of Whiteness 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z I could go on, and I guess I will just a little: I never say or suggest that anyone considered the Triple Crown victories "as a demonstration of white superiority." Ebert attacks my "Secretariat" review -- it's on! 2010-10-08T14:58:00Z French cinema has no innate superiority, other than its historic respect for character. French films glow with confidence and culture. Ours should do the same 2010-08-07T23:05:00Z There was a tinge of superiority to his tone, telling Mr. Williams when his questions were “fair” and answering others as impersonally as possible. What Brian Williams Should Have Asked Snowden 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z Throwing a full-blown tantrum, she starts ranting about the superiority of math over human language, the puniness of consciousness and the pathetic inability of Althea to perceive “the curvature of spacetime,” whatever exactly that is. Review: ‘Lightless,’ About the Bratty Machine on a Spaceflight 2015-09-02T04:00:00Z Then Montiano invaded Georgia, but despite numerical superiority suddenly, shockingly withdrew. Review | If you like action-packed historical novels, ‘The War of Jenkins’ Ear’ is just the book for you 2021-11-08T05:00:00Z “The South,” he wrote, “transformed the distinction between failure on the battlefield and moral superiority into the central dogma of its new identity.” Wolfgang Schivelbusch, Polymathic Cultural Historian, Dies at 81 2023-05-04T04:00:00Z In the midst of the era’s industrial-strength brutality, born of racist claims of ethnic and cultural superiority, an artistic search was on to discover ways to begin anew. Luchita Hurtado abstract artworks mix cultures like colors, to rousing effect 2016-12-28T05:00:00Z Handmaids are positioned as important to selling the lie of Gilead’s superiority. ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Episode 6: Trade Delegation 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z The Argentine side shows its superiority from the beginning. Frugal Traveler Blog: Taking the Paraguayan Route to Iguazú Falls 2013-04-24T21:17:44Z As Will is forced to compromise the idea of his own superiority, Foulds, who is British, has a delicious time satirizing the casual racism and arrogance of empire Will both embodies and chafes against. ‘In the Wolf’s Mouth,’ by Adam Foulds As usual, the program of exploitation is driven by greed, enforced by guns and sanctified by a philosophy of natural superiority. Review | In ‘How Beautiful We Were,’ an African village goes up against an American oil company 2021-03-16T04:00:00Z In Wednesday’s Season 5 premiere of Duck Dynasty, the most controversial topic tackled by the bearded Robertson clan was debating the artistic superiority of the Air Bud versus Jason Bourne film franchise. Duck Dynasty Premiere Recap: In Which They Tackle Tough Topics Like Emojis and Air Bud 2014-01-16T16:06:19Z But despite our superiority on the football pitch, when it comes to writing about sports the Americans have us soundly beat. Sports writing just isn't our field 2010-06-15T09:59:00Z Second, as America’s military superiority was now overwhelming, we had the right, the ability and the obligation to dictate the terms of global peace, and to enforce that peace by making war. How Victory in the Cold War Led to Tragedy in the Years After 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z He also makes an impassioned case for the printed book's superiority over its digital competitor. ArtsBeat: Q. and A.: Joe Queenan on Books Classic, Trashy and Otherwise 2012-11-30T15:00:16Z She took the title of the current show from a long-running series by Mr. Durham highlighting the absurdity of any nation’s or culture’s claims of superiority. The Artist Jimmie Durham: A Long Time Gone, but Welcomed Back 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z We see this shock and this superiority because for so long, white feminism has been conflated as just feminism. “Put the fangs back in feminism”: Author Rafia Zakaria on how feminism loses relevance to whiteness 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z The Civil War was about whether we were going to be a slave-based economic system, and what has superiority, the federal or the state governments. Coming to the Festival of Books: Scott Martelle 2015-04-08T04:00:00Z It is a place addicted to its increasingly hollow sense of greatness and even superiority, steered by a leader more concerned with his own glory than caring for his people. "Avatar: The Last Airbender" remains one of the purest portrayals of fighting fascism on modern TV 2020-06-13T04:00:00Z They perpetuated theories of white superiority and racist beliefs that persist to this day. Remembering the Racist History of ‘Human Zoos’ 2021-12-29T05:00:00Z A new paper presented at the British Sociological Association's annual conference has accused the liberal, Guardian-reading middle classes of asserting their cultural superiority through their choice of standup. Top 10 middle-class comedians: in condescending order 2010-04-12T12:03:00Z Few films buffs would deny the superiority of an earlier movie Wilder and Holden made together, “Sunset Boulevard.” A shallow, gossipy perspective of ‘Audrey and Bill’ 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z It’s an audacious goal, particularly within a political and ecclesiastical organization predicated on the superiority of men. Review | In Lauren Groff’s hands, the tale of a medieval nunnery is must-read fiction 2021-08-30T04:00:00Z They laugh nervously or contemptuously, to prove their superiority to the urgent intensity on screen. Review: 'Fifty Shades of Grey': Where's the Wicked Whiplash? 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z The period detail is impressive, but there’s no romanticism for dirty old New York or easy-in-hindsight superiority. Review: HBO’s ‘The Deuce’ Works a Vibrant Hustle in the Naked City 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z The pretty girls at school had always had an air of superiority, but once we hit puberty, they seemed to matter more. ‘Being cute just made me miserable’: Mara Wilson on growing up in Hollywood 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z Show the public “the superiority of force. … Get rich at the expense of the nation.” Stories of Then That Still Hold Up Now 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z Could it be that Europe's abandonment of formal empire failed to provoke a cathartic revision of grandiose old notions of national and racial superiority? The ruins of empire: Asia's emergence from western imperialism 2012-07-27T07:00:04Z Assimilating, in this sense, is a verb, a choice, not a bow to the superiority of another culture. Fighting Racism Even, and Especially, Where We Don’t Realize It Exists 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z “Shock and awe” was an advertisement for the superiority of American firepower and the assurance that our might would prevail. We’re watching the same impeachment hearings, but seeing vastly different TV shows 2019-11-16T05:00:00Z While England slumps ever further into ignoble disarray, Amis’s book may help maintain in me, for a little while longer, our laughable yet indelible sense of British superiority. What We’re Reading This Summer 2016-07-19T04:00:00Z "If you wanted a literal parallel, you'd set it in Afghanistan or something like that, but for me it's a more general point about unquestioning cultural superiority." Kevin Macdonald: "I didn't understand Hollywood" 2011-03-17T21:30:00Z But “When We Went Electronic” invites the audience to be part of an ugly presumption of superiority. Review: In ‘When We Went Electronic,’ Hell Is Available in Spandex 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z I fear that it may suggest a certain superiority. 5 great books on world travel 2013-02-04T12:45:00Z Just as before, by observing my reactions to what I read, I saw things about myself I didn’t want to see—envy, a desire for fame, assumptions of moral superiority that were completely unfounded. V.S. Naipaul, Paul Theroux, and me: What I learned from reading about their tumultuous relationship 2018-09-23T04:00:00Z A bearish fellow with an Irish drum—a bodhrán—held forth about the superiority of the instrument, and, as young men will do about anything, some argued with him. Surviving a Weekend with the Wizard of Prog Rock 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z In a compassionate but nuanced telling, the novel effectively effaces assumptions of superiority and inferiority, good and bad. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z This is usually the moment when a frequent advocate for big-C cinema makes an impassioned case for the technical and aesthetic superiority of the theatrical experience. ‘Steve Jobs’ and the secular ritual of going to the movies 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z Given the film’s precipitating news bulletin and the recent events in Memphis, superiority would seem to be just about the last thing we’ve earned. ‘A Lot of Nothing’ Review: The Cop Next Door 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z A genre saddled with moral superiority and social inferiority, it wants to police its borders even as what’s inside is evolving radically. Country Music Opens Its Ears 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z A fight for true marital equality cannot take the superiority of marriage to nonmarriage as its starting point. One marriage under god 2013-02-02T20:00:00Z The inadvertent result of all the lavish resources is to prove the superiority of the live over the digital — to keep us sneaking back under our glasses from the augmented real to the really real. Review: Wagner Would Have Liked AR, but Not This ‘Parsifal’ 2023-07-26T04:00:00Z In the essay, he proposes, in all seriousness, a theory about the relationship between fish consumption and the superiority of the Nordic race. Inspiration Information: 'The Whispering Muse' 2014-05-13T04:00:00Z In Germany in the late 19th century, all sorts of mythologies of Aryan superiority manifested in music, fiction, philosophy and the arts, often expressed in an occult manner. What is “white supremacy”? A brief history of a term, and a movement, that continues to haunt America 2017-04-23T04:00:00Z During the film, Downey Jr. slips into a slurred lower baritone voice to effect Sherlock Holmes' unique tone of superiority and sarcasm. American actors with the best onscreen British accents, from Peter Dinklage to Renee Zellwegger 2022-04-09T04:00:00Z Our sense of ownership and superiority over what other people consume has run completely amok, and this Starbucks barista is merely the latest example of our obsession with telling others how and what to eat. “Diabetes, here I come”: Starbucks drink-shaming is bullying, and it’s part of a larger problem 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z "It goes without saying that nobody should be defined by another person, but there's a colonial undertone here that reinforces white superiority that's kind of gross." "Harry Potter" & the problematic creator – What's left for a fandom raised on false tolerance? 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z Even as humans fear the superiority of the machines, our species remains the ideal to which they aspire. When the Movies Pictured A.I., They Imagined the Wrong Disaster 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z That canniness is a problem; if you’re not totally invested in Jack’s frustrations and his sense of superiority, the series can start to feel a little smug and sour. Watchlist: Boxers, Trekkies, Lilliputians and Other Favorites 2010-12-11T23:20:00Z The critic too is not particularly interested in crushing dreams, or raining on parades, or killing the buzz, or establishing his superiority over any of these hopefuls. Curtain up on ABC's 'Rising Star' 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z One that assumed the moral superiority of wealth? Review | What was it like to live in a world both more formal and more brutal than our own? 2018-01-08T05:00:00Z There is none of the dormant insecurity that Skarsgård brought to his interpretation of the role; from start to finish, Curry's version is 100 percent convinced of his superiority and inevitable victory. The case for Tim Curry's Pennywise 2019-09-14T04:00:00Z Voters for the Rock Hall are asked to consider an act’s music influence and the “length and depth” of its career, in addition to “innovation and superiority in style and technique.” Dolly Parton, Eminem and A Tribe Called Quest Are Rock Hall Nominees 2022-02-02T05:00:00Z The superiority of “Foyle’s War” isn’t based on the detective stories, which are as formulaic as those in any other British period mystery and sometimes downright silly. | 'Foyle?s War': ?Foyle?s War? Returns, Starring Michael Kitchen 2010-04-29T22:05:00Z Even when Trump is forced to acknowledge that he’s ignorant about a particular topic, he still manages to perpetuate a God-like sense of superiority. Donald Trump thinks he’s a god. Even worse, his supporters agree 2016-04-30T04:00:00Z Commissioned by the Propaganda Ministry to film the 1936 Berlin games, Riefenstahl was set to showcase the triumph of German athletes as proof of Aryan physical and intellectual superiority over the rest of the world. Jesse Owens, a Film Hero Once Again 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z For three weeks they debated the superiority of their string instruments and brainstormed new ways to divide the octave scale: stick to quarter-tone increments or implement the Western 12-step system? In 'Uproot,' Jace Clayton takes a worldwide tour of the digital underground 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z It is impossible to imagine a better illustration of how common white beliefs about their own intellectual, emotional and moral superiority are laughable. “You can’t coddle white brothers and sisters”: The fiery racial gospel of Michael Eric Dyson 2017-01-29T05:00:00Z This sense of superiority is inherent workplace sexism in action. The mansplaining hotline: a simple explanation that even women will understand 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z In contrast, Phil is respected by his men because he sees something in the nearby hills his men can't, indicating his superiority. Benedict Cumberbatch is intimidating in Jane Campion's exquisite and potent "Power of the Dog" 2021-12-01T05:00:00Z Both siblings remain aristocratic enough to maintain an air of superiority and just ironic enough to mock their Dickensian condition. ‘No. 4 Imperial Lane’: A powerful elegy for lost love and lost empire 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z There was often a chauvinistic edge to Lee’s self-appointed role of kung fu ambassador: his films were designed as showcases of his skill, and by extension, of the superiority of Chinese martial arts. Film: Enter the Teacher to the Dragon of Martial Arts Films 2011-01-23T02:30:15Z There was a Spanish lesson in which O'Brien asserted the superiority of English tongue-twisters. In Cuba, Conan O'Brien makes friends, gets laughs ... and drinks too much rum 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z Each of these episodes is shattered by violence, yes, but also leavened by varying degrees of progress, despite the persistence of white people convinced of their superiority, innocence and benevolence. Review | ‘The Revisioners’ reminds us of slavery’s long reach, through the generations 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z Isaac contributes another portrayal in his gallery of overbearing outsiders, after Sucker Punch and Inside Llewyn Davis; his Nathan thinks that boorishness is an emblem of his superiority. Ex Machina: Can Two Wily Men Outsmart a Gorgeous Robot? 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z I think it is easy for those of us who have that passion, that obsession that you write about, to feel a certain sense of moral superiority about it. How do you send back a bad meal? 2023-03-29T04:00:00Z The study was co-authored by Henry Harpending, a far-right ideologue and advocate of discredited ideas about racial superiority. A New York Times columnist set out to praise ‘Jewish brilliance.’ The result was another explosive controversy. 2019-12-30T05:00:00Z The Indian claim to superiority ultimately rested on the legendary rope trick. Review | The story behind some of the world’s most awe-inspiring magic tricks 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z Personally, I always feel more comfortable at plays that acknowledge the weaknesses of theatre and its people than those that imply their superiority to other jobs and bods. Theatre about theatre shows there's no business like show business 2013-03-08T09:30:01Z A PBS profile of the African-American athlete who won four gold medals at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, thereby scuppering Hitler's plans to present the event as a spectacle of Aryan superiority. TV highlights 06/06/2012 2012-06-05T19:00:01Z We knew and we chose to ignore or deny or cooperate with a lie of white superiority. From an Iowa classroom in 1968 to Donald Trump: Educator Jane Elliott on the legendary “Blue-Eyed/Brown-Eyed” exercise 2017-03-25T04:00:00Z By the ’60s, Leonard Nimoy’s thin, dark eyebrow was a crucial Mr. Spock tool in “Star Trek,” displaying superiority over humans without being smug. On the Screen, an Arched Eyebrow Speaks Volumes 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z |
| 随便看 |
英语例句辞典收录了117811条英语例句在线翻译词条，基本涵盖了全部常用单词及词组的例句翻译及用法，是英语学习的有利工具。