Sentence examples for french superiority from inspiring English sources

The language was foreign, the recipes long, the ingredients difficult to get, and the whole enterprise shot through with French superiority.

Although his sister settled in Toulon, he never showed much interest in the country, and was refreshingly free of the usual maddening French superiority.

ADAM GOPNIK: Or at a minimum that the French superiority cannot be sustained without being alloyed with more cosmopolitan influences — French cosmopolitanism became more narrowly national in recent years, and is now being revived, quite naturally, because what we call " sophistication" is always a form of cosmopolitanism.

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This victory restored the image of French superiority and led to an increase in tribal submissions, the withdrawal of Said's forces further into the mountains and a six-month period of relative peace.

Often called "the best of enemies," the French and the British have a long history of arguments stemming from British irritation at French assertions of Gallic superiority and French suspicions of British insularity.

Meanwhile, a smaller British fleet under Admiral Thomas Graves was unable to counter French naval superiority at the Battle of Virginia Capes and felt forced to return to New York.

Classical motifs were being read as assertions of French cultural superiority, and decorative painting as a genre became associated with a reactionary nationalism.

The war also undermined French military superiority and the Napoleonic image.

Despite the great French naval superiority, the French had conducted insufficient pre-war planning for an assault on the Prussian naval installations, and concluded that it would only be possible with Danish assistance, which was not forthcoming.

Lyautey authorised only a series of limited offensives, such as the razing of villages and gardens, the primary aim of which was to emphasise French military superiority.