Word: inferiore
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...clock points to a great historical puzzle. Why did China, where so many things were invented, exploit its creativity so poorly? The Chinese discovered paper and movable type, yet the country was virtually illiterate until the 20th century. Gunpowder was also invented in China, yet its cannons were inferior to those made by Europeans. China's bustling cities, despite their vitality, never stimulated the intellectual ferment that in Europe led to innovation...
Moreover, such acts fail to allow the "appropriators" to examine their own psyches since they are content to live in a fantasy that is sustained by their opposition to the "inferior other...
This image of Matisse as a decorative, hence feminine, hence inferior painter tended to stick. Ironically, it would be supplanted later by the exactly opposite mistake: that Matisse's gaze on his odalisques in the calm of the Nice studio was the quintessence of male sexism, and that his love of pleasurable objects and delectable color, of luxury in general, disqualified him as a real voice of the 20th century because it was not revolutionary...
...play? He returned to play a man ranked 101st in the world and, except for a couple of games in which Spassky was frankly inept, their play has been roughly even. By world championship standards, Fischer's game has been inferior -- some flashes of brilliance, but some appallingly weak play as well...
...house without indoor plumbing. Much has been made of Clinton's encounters with snakes in the outhouse, but he says, "We were not poor. A lot of rural Arkansas had no sewers back then." Billy was taken into town to attend a Catholic school, rather than the inferior county school nearer home. It was his first experience of Arkansas' dreary educational establishment...