Sentence examples for superior persons from inspiring English sources

The recognition of leaders' moral superiority and the acceptance of morally superior persons in a leadership position and the exercise of power per se, we argue, is a manifestation of high power distance orientation.

But for all his exhilaration he was disappointed with the Zionist leaders: "Why aren't there any superior persons in Palestine?

He had hoped to establish a government of superior persons who would be above party.

In 1918, Paul Popenoe and Roswell Hill Johnson wrote "Applied Eugenics," to explain "the practical means by which society may encourage the reproduction of superior persons and discourage that of inferiors".

Sanger and other advocates endorsed negative eugenics (discouraging procreation of "inferior" persons), but did not advocate euthanasia or positive eugenics (encouraging procreation of "superior" persons).

A really superior person.

Well, the truth is that Allan was a very superior person, great-souled.

They want to be the superior person in the room, sneering at the world.

Thus, until the late-20th century, many Western scholars and Chinese scholars writing in Western languages translated the term as "superior man" or "superior person".

In recent decades the Conservatives have been as attuned to these nuances as anyone, preferring humble leaders to pukka ones; as far back as 1923 they picked Stanley Baldwin above Lord Curzon ("a most superior person"), partly for that reason.

Hence the rhyme that later clung to him: "My name is George Nathaniel Curzon,/ I am a most superior person./ My cheeks are pink, my hair is sleek,/ I dine at Blenheim once a week".