De Gourmont is supremelythe critic, the man who digests, interprets, reorganizes the thoughts of other men and in the process adds to those thoughts.
Such expression is not, of course, peculiar to literary satirists, but it should be remembered that Swift had supremely the ironic trick of thought, the gift of saying a thing by saying exactly the opposite.
As he took his place that evening at the supper-table, he was supremely happy.
On the day we now speak of he was supremely happy.
There is very much else to be said of Sidgwick; some part of it has been beautifully said this afternoon; but I should like to add this: I believe that he was a supremely great teacher.
Such a fiction may be satisfactory to a pettifogging lawyer, but as the basis of a spiritual system is indeed supremely contemptible.
I reverenced the doctrine of the Trinity as something vital to the soul; but felt that to love the Fathers or the Athanasian Creed more than the Gospel of John would be a supremely miserable superstition.
Professors draped in stiff mantles and wearing the scholastic cap on their supremely wise foreheads, wend their way to the temples of knowledge at the portals of which flocks of students wait.
But it is always of you, dear and delicate and supremely interesting, that I have been thinking, and here is just a poor palpitating stopgap of a reply.
As for him, he was supremely happy between the occupations of worshipping the most perfect woman in the world and being companion to the jolliest girl he had ever known.
There they go, supremely happy,' commented Gwen from her post of vantage after a pause.
Further, since happiness is supremely desirable, it is contrary to that which is before all to be shunned.
Moreover, it is clear, since the order of reason begins with the end, that, for a man to be inordinately disposed towards his end, is supremely contrary to reason.
Therefore His counsels are supremely useful and becoming.
Thus a certain science is supremely good, but not every science is.
Hence it does not follow that every pleasure is supremely good, or even good at all.
For Augustine says (Enchiridion xi) that "as God is supremely good, He would nowise allow evil to be done, unless He could draw some good from every evil.
Whether the war in the Philippines was regrettable or not, it had become, by midsummer of 1899, supremely important, from any rational and patriotic standpoint, to end it as soon as possible.
But some statement from the Philippines at once became a supremely important desideratum, to counterbalance Judge Parker's over-statement, some optimism to meet the Parker pessimism.
And now let us consider the most supremely important part of Governor Forbes's magazine article above quoted.
It is curious how generously andsupremely frank a brave soldier will get when he forgets to be a politician.
He meantsupremely to be safe, and to that end he had entrenched himself on every side.
If Lydia was to be his--though already she seemed supremely his in all the shy fealties of the moment--not a petal of the flower of love should be lost to her.
They brought her very near him, and after all she was not sure what kind of brother he was, save that he had to be supremely loved.
The conclusion was at once inexpressibly humiliating and supremely ludicrous.
There was something supremely noble and generous about Giovanni's readiness to sacrifice everything for justice which made his old heart beat with a strange pride.
They wandered for some distance up the hill-side, supremely happy, though taking care not to allow their exuberant spirits to overflow into song.
We get our definition of sin from Calvary; sin is any unlikeness to the Spirit of Christ, revealed supremelyin that act of self-sacrifice.
In dress he was supremely elegant, with the elegance of France, that in England would be accounted foppishness.
Mr. Caryll stood apart, breathing the freshness of the sunlit morning, but supremely indifferent to its glory.
Also he seemed to be waiting for some encouragement from Clyffurde, who, however, gave him none, but sat unmoved and apparently supremely indifferent, while a suffering heart was pouring out its wails of agony into his unresponsive ear.
She ought to have been supremely happy, yet she was out of tune.
Would it be a relief to our moral being to be freed from the privilege or duty of supremely loving Jesus Christ?
Thus did the most tactful and generous of managers make a time-honoured servant of the public easy in his pocket, and supremely happy in the retention of his amour propre.
So are old playgoers supremely content when with congenial souls they discuss the famous and favourite actors and actresses they have seen and admired in bygone days.
The victory of action over talk, of the executive over the legislature, of the one supremelyable man over the discordant and helpless many, was now complete.
I declare to you that you honor him supremely when you agree to marry him.
Again poor Noel felt himself banished, ignored and excluded, as he alone was kept away from her, but his care for her was so supremely above his care for himself that he never made a complaint.
Soon Fosdick would abruptly and hurriedly enter--the man of pressing affairs, pausing on his way from one supremely important matter to another.
Only he is supremely great who works with both heart and mind.
Another styles them supremely selfish, which is nearer the truth; for, without doubt, they are the descendants of Adam.
Still his supremely selfish ideas of self-honor and official dignity led him to pursue a course disgusting to all parties.
His political schemes were generally sosupremely selfish that they died still-born.
To know the whole game, and to do it supremely well, requires many, many months of constant and studious practice.
You may see some drivers with their hands nearly up to their chins and looking supremely happy in their ignorance of the risk they incur.
Now, at present, I am supremely uneasy and restless - almost to the extent of pain; but O!
We suit each other capitally; and it is an awful joke to be living (two would-be advocates, and one a baronet) in this supremely mean abode.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "supremely" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: eminently; especially; exceedingly; incomparably; most; preeminently; prominently
