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Example sentences for: superlative
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Quality of carpets is judged by the number of knots per square inch: 60, 80, or (superlative) 100.
Nor, at the other end of the scale, can we match the Spanish superlative suffix - ísimo , e.g., grandísimo, altísimo, bellísimo (rendered in English as the `biggest,' the `highest,' the `most beautiful,' although for an exact equivalency one would use the other superlative form in Spanish, más grande, más alto, más bello ). Nothing I have ever heard in English can match the breadth of lighthearted insult expressed by a Spanish wit some years ago who used the suffix with reference to the notoriously pampered, well-connected, well-heeled, well-placed brother-in-law ( cu ñado ) of Francisco Franco.
The Financial Times (which led Monday with the news that BP Amoco, the United Kingdom's largest company, was about to take over Atlantic Richfield of the United States in an all-stock deal worth $25 billion) carried a front-page headline "America's illusions crash with downed stealth" and said that TV images of the wreckage have shattered "the illusion enjoyed by Americans for years that the US military's technologically superlative weaponry meant it could destroy unseen enemies with little or no danger to American life or property."
These thoughts were occasioned by what I regard as without question the two most enthralling performances of the decade--and I hasten to temper such a superlative with a dose of irony.
In this vein, I would also point you to Claude Steele's most illuminating essay in the Atlantic just recently about the role of racial stereotyping--by white professors of black students--in suppressing academic performance among even superlative black performers.
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