Some of these feelings of superior knowledge, skill, or judgement are no doubt justified.
Several songs on which she deploys the band - notably Sweet Dream Fade, Gardenia Talk, Don't Hurt Child and the title tune - have the informal feeling of very superior demos, and are all the better for the lack of sweetening.
An insecure person who also harbors jealous thoughts about someone else can easily resort to backstabbing as a way of feeling superior over the subject of their desire and can even view this as a sort of "revenge", as a way of taking down someone's strengths, to make themselves appear and feel stronger.
It concludes with a kind of mea culpa, in which Louie is gently taken to task for his use of the word faggot in his stand-up routines, a thoughtful, even moving moment that somehow doesn't end up feeling like a grandstanding of superior conscience.
Whenever I get the question, "Are you making fun?" or if I'm being accused of feeling superior to the characters, it's usually by people who themselves feel superior to others.
In case we bask in the glow of progress and the delight of feeling ourselves superior to our predecessors, it's worth remembering that the response to Edward Bond's Saved in 1965 and Sarah Kane's Blasted 30 years later was remarkably similar.
You can keep the moolah-doolah - I crave only the thrill of feeling superior in body and mind.
Where others were sure of feeling superior to the people who didn't believe, Johnson was just hoping to get to Heaven on a lucky break — praying for mercy, but not counting on it.
Whether or not this is true is debatable, but I often find it hard to keep up with whatever smug rule we've silently invented as a means of feeling superior to St . Louis
"The only thing they are trying to do is make me feel the weight of revenge, using my family and discrediting Mexico and its laws, and to subjugate our sovereignty with the only desire of feeling superior," Caro Quintero wrote.
