Sentence examples for essentially superior from inspiring English sources

Darwinism, in particular, uprooted the classical understanding of human beings as essentially superior to the rest of creation by offering a theory whereby man would be simply the most advanced life form along an unbroken continuum, and the difference between man and irrational animals would merely be one of degree, not of kind.

Singularity University is a kind of seminary in Silicon Valley where the metaphysical conviction that machines are, or soon will be, essentially superior to human beings is nourished among those involved in profiting from that eventuality.

11th over: West Indies 103-1 (Charles 40, Samuels 0) "Chris Gayle is essentially a superior version of Craig Kieswetter — both absorb an unusually high number of dot balls at the beginning of their innings in the belief that, once they've played themselves in, they'll be able to lift their initially anaemic strike rate to a more than acceptable level by smacking boundaries," says SB Tang.

1864 is set in Denmark in the years around… you've guessed it… and is, essentially, a massively superior soap opera (but so was War and Peace).

Purposefully avoiding close connection or commitment to anyone or anything, Abel appears a literary type of his time: the young man who holds himself aloof, guarded, perceptive, inherently superior, essentially joyless.

On the one hand, a recurrent criticism levelled at The Next Day was that, for all the weird videos that accompanied it, the music on it essentially amounted to superior but straightforward rock, not unlike the albums he'd been making before heart problems prompted his withdrawal from music in 2004.

Abby adds, "Maybe it was only by ornamenting themselves that humans first understood the difference between a thing and a sign, a first sign to myself of my being human, essentially different and hence superior to those animals I paint on the wall, whose power and cunning I fear and admire".

Snowden would have essentially been telling his superiors, who already knew about them and were tasked with carrying them out, that they themselves were breaking the law.

I have been both, and I promise you that one does not contain a people superior to or essentially different from the other.

Imperial authority in India rested on the claim that the British, as representatives of a superior civilization, were essentially benign custodians of a fractious country.

Beyond the Fringe was, in however superior a version, essentially one more undergraduate revue; Private Eye 's immediate rationale was the resurrection of an Oxford rag called Mesopotamia, and the BBC mandarins, while sanctioning TW3 (as it was universally known), emphasised that at no time should it be promoted as "satirical".