He asserts her immeasurable moral inferiority to the typical German maiden, both of poetry and of real life.
He had met a cooler, and rather than acknowledge his inferiority he had parted with the valuables above mentioned, with no other guarantee of their safe return than a gentlemanly inflection of voice.
Now I was a doctor, and a very young one in those days, new to the regiment and conscious of my inferiority to its merest subaltern.
After all, people only go abroad in order that they may realize the inferiority of Europe.
Why, when you see two people together for just five minutes, you can note the superiority of the one, and the inferiority of the other.
China's inferiority to Japan I knew nothing about.
A sentence in the first of these letters deserves to be noted as affording a key to one side of her character, namely: "the depressing sense of inferioritywhich was born with me.
They showed their own sense of this inferiority by an affectation of Persian manners.
The Innuit and Eskimo designs do, indeed, more nearly approximate to those of the primitive draughtsmen than other aboriginal efforts; but their inferiority in all respects is equally striking and indisputable.
Now he would hardly have said this, if the Elian Ephyre and its neighbourhood had likewise been devastated by Hercules, since his account would then have failed to explain the relative inferiority of the Pylians.
Montoni despised the greater part of these for the inferiority of their talents, rather than for their vicious inclinations, and associated with them only to make them the instruments of his purposes.
It mollifies our inferiority to be able to add to our honest admiration of anyone's great intellectual merit, 'But did you ever see such a chin!
Let us now consider in the light of modern psychology upon first-hand and reliable evidence the allegation of mental inferiority that is constantly brought against these people.
It is the marked physical dissimilarity of the black man that rouses the fear and jealousy of the white man, and not any inherent mental inferiority in him.
A term of address implying inferiority and used in anger, contempt, reproach, or disrespectful familiarity, addressed to a man or boy, but sometimes to a woman.
The quality or state of being subordinate or inferior to an other; inferiority of rank or dignity; subjection.
The state of being submissive; acknowledgement of inferiority or dependence; humble or suppliant behavior; meekness; resignation.
The African slave trade was the work of the Elizabethan seamen, and was excused, as slavery in the United States was excused, by the Protestant Churches on the ground of the racial inferiority of the negro.
The first thing that strikes one is its inferiority to preceding Houses of Commons, and the presumption, impertinence, and self-sufficiency of the new members.
Comparison of the friends Aminta and Selina was forced by their standing together, and the representation in little Selina of the inferiority of the world of women to his Aminta; he thought of several, and splendid women, foreign and English.
Such an outward sign of degradation reveals at once the moral and social inferiority of these poor people.
The Hottentots or Bushmen seem to be the lowest of mankind, as much by their physical characteristics as by the inferiority of their intelligence.
The intellectualinferiority of the Negro is readable in his countenance, devoid of expression and mobility.
The exegesis of the early church was closely connected with theories about matter, and about the inferiority of women and of married life, which are no longer believed.
At any rate, the necessity of voting will tend to develop a larger interest among women in public affairs, to fit them better for the education of their children, and to do away with the lingering sense of the inferiority of women.
After some persuasion, I prevailed on her to sit down: but I could not conquer her timidity and imaginary inferiorityso far as to induce her to partake of my breakfast.
Inferiority was what I was little disposed to acknowledge; I therefore consulted my friend the usher.
He asked me if I'd ever heard of Freud and if I knew what an inferiority complex was, and I said I had, but he explained it all to me anyway.
I guess there is something in that inferiority thing after all.
He was possessed by a dull anger, and as it spread upward his sense of inferiority took flight.
We find a great difference in the capacity of different women, but cannot suggest any superiority or inferiority as regards sexes.
A gentleman inquired of the proprietor, after he had employed them two years, if there was any inferiority to men's service, and was informed there was not any.
Again, in Samson Agonistes the very centre and pith of the poem is the incorrigible frailty and inferiority of women--a thesis that would be extraordinary, even if true, for a poet.
She was comforted;—though at the cost of a lower ideal of the nature of the Creator than she would have attained had such comfort been impossible to her; and, therefore, at the cost of a proportionate inferiority in her own moral nature.
And we sigh over the supposedinferiority in this respect, of England in the nineteenth century, to the brilliant Italy of the sixteenth.
