This is what the test of American technological superiority came down to today: two men hunkered down in a red fiberglass capsule shooting along a tunnel of polished ice.
But the belief in the superiority of top-down, grandstanding capital investment projects goes hand in hand with contempt for the plans, ideas and capacities of the public.
Even if we don't accept American superiority, we bow down before American immensity: the customised 747 currently in use is as tall as a six-storey building and as long as a football field.
Snobbishness defines as having an air of condescending superiority and looking down on other people and thinking that you're better than them and they're not good enough for you, and it can definitely be hurtful.
Despite a history of proclaiming their superiority, deep down Germans are not sure they've got it right, after all.
Inside the House of Commons, I promise not to waste time shouting at the twats on the other side, and using valuable debating hours to prove my own superiority with sneering put-downs.
In Indian country, we all know someone who was harassed by angry white youth trying to "take back their country" or prove their superiority by beating down First Americans.
Mercedes are talking down their superiority, of course, at least up to a point.
Top-down approach is not a promising method because it contains some limitations such as low yield assembly, large-scale uniformity and repeatability issues, whereas bottom-up approach owns its superiority compared to top-down approach in terms of photolithography and is capable of producing various nanostructures with high yield, less defect and better range ordering [24].
Possessing nuclear superiority, for example, allowed Eisenhower to face down Soviet threats to intervene in the Middle East during the 1956 Suez Crisis.
