Sentence examples for argument of superiority from inspiring English sources

At which point comparisons between Merckx will be inevitable, even if the Belgian's phenomenal dominance on all terrains settles any argument of superiority.

It also completes the first city's introduction of the two kinds of arguments for the superiority of the just life, by appealing, as the pleasure proofs do, to the intrinsic value of different kinds of psychological satisfaction.

Only the Nicomachean Ethics discusses the close relationship between ethical inquiry and politics; only the Nicomachean Ethics critically examines Solon's paradoxical dictum that no man should be counted happy until he is dead; and only the Nicomachean Ethics gives a series of arguments for the superiority of the philosophical life to the political life.

But even if their sense of superiority comes wrapped in rational argument, a sloppy approach to evidence underpins the comforting -- yet false-conclusion.

Lander's argument about the superiority of the denizens of Hautdesert hinges on the lack of self-awareness present in Camelot, which leads to an unthinking populace that frowns on individualism.

Convinced of their own moral clarity, the Neo Con displays an air of superiority and is likely to dismiss counter arguments quickly.

I'm not trying to start an argument about the superiority of Bowie to any of these artists, but with Bowie, the starting point for analysis has never been lived experience.

Like the majority of contemporary books, then, The Shallows does not justify its length: its natural form was always that of a pithy provocation, so as an argument for the superiority of book-length prose it is rather self-defeating.

But while the Christians are still pestering God, the end-of-daysers awaiting Armageddon, and the Aryan brothers proving the least convincing imaginable argument for the superiority of their race, things have changed quite drastically in porn, which has been even more vulnerable than cinema, TV or music to the predations of the internet.

The argument about the superiority of the shortstops raged in the early parts of their careers, but the debate began to follow a pattern.

While a group of older women gushed over the good looks of one of the key characters from the first season ("Troels! I could just say it over and over again. Troels!"), Lamont mounted a passionate argument for the superiority of "The Killing".