Sentence examples similar to lends a superiority from inspiring English sources
Dad-rocker Sting lends a helping hand.
"Because brown-egg-laying hens are larger, they require more feed, so their eggs are often more expensive," lending an aura of superiority that has zero nutritional basis.
It lends an air of sophistication.
It also lends an air of confidence.
Historical distance might have lent a sense of smug moral superiority or easily achieved outrage to this scene from Alan Parker's "Come See the Paradise". But by this point, well into the film, Mr. Parker has attached his themes so securely to the lives of these individuals that they carry the weight of a horrifying period in American history without any pretension on the film maker's part.
Winslet is a child of the bohemian seventies, and the freedoms she naturally enjoys as an actress – her behavioral and gestural laissez-faire – can lend an edge of well-intentioned superiority to her inquiries.
Would Duenyas lend a hand?
Lend a fellow duffer a hand.
