Word: inferiorated
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...press agents have been billing an incredible number of films with a huge picture of the "Oscar" statue beside the title, and underneath the faint admission that the film or one of its stars has been only nominated for an Award. We have all seen how early, and frequently inferior, films in which one of this year's winners has appeared, have been brought back for re-showing with a conspicuous "Oscar" in all the advertisements. I would not mind this retroactivity in the publicity men except for the yellow taint of dishonest advertising which I can clearly...
...Americans will be prepared to accept Expatriate Eliot's dismal conclusions in which the sole ray of light is the grudging admission that Britain (which in Eliot's opinion is rapidly forgetting Christianity) may yet re-create a degree of culture by adopting "some inferior or materialistic religion...
...orchestra, although it expressed its admiration for Stravinsky loudly after each composition, betrayed little inspiration in its playing. In addition, there were several sloppy entrances; solo playing especially was inferior to B.S.O. standards. However, some of this may be attributed to the difficulty of the scores, and Stravinsky's earnest but inexpert conducting...
...cloud of dust that was left hovering in the air when a great people went galloping [away]." The world was not much better. Suffering from a "vertical invasion" of the masses, it had been taken over by the commonplace mind. It was a time "superior to other times; inferior to itself . . . Never perhaps has the ordinary man been so far below his times...
...built up a well-trained, suitably organized submarine arm, of which at the moment about 26 boats are capable of operations in the Atlantic; the submarine arm is still much too weak, however, to have any decisive effect on the war. The surface forces, moreover, are so inferior in number and strength that they can do no more than show that they know how to die gallantly...