Word: superiority
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...often these days, investigators come to act like and resemble those they investigate--people who are swayed by money, willing to use any means to their ends, secretive and conspiratorial, convinced of their superior intelligence and rectitude, unable to see anything around them but evil. It all seems to swell and consume everything before them. Can the presidency be that depraved and it go unnoticed...
...considered a case study of the different aesthetic views of the East and the West at the start of the Cold war. As one critic wrote of it, "It is one of the most beautiful, most exalted of [Prokofiev's] works...this great work shows once again how immeasurably superior Soviet music is to the music of the Capitalist West." Ironically, aside from a few such critics, the symphony had a poor reception in the Soviet Union, and thus was not published until 1949--in New York...
...detailed discussion of Ian's ultimate fate and parentage, of course, would reveal a key secret of the book. But the gentle presence of Ian, in the end, transforms Felix in the Underworld from an enjoyable if hackneyed yarn into something different and superior, a mystery novel with heart...
Zobel, who among Superior Court judges has one of the higher rates of overturning jury verdicts, also stressed that it was within his duties as a judge to overturn a conviction that seemed unjust...
According to Cambridge Police Sgt. Steven Ahern, 300 people turned out at the Middlesex Superior Courthouse on a chilly Monday afternoon to support Woodward after the sentencing...