supereminence

The supereminence of man is like Satan's, a supereminence of pain; and the majority of his species, doomed to penury, disease, and crime, have reason to curse the untoward event that, by enabling him to communicate his sensations, raised him above the level of his fellow animals.

But his was not the nature of Epaminondas, to doff his natural supereminence and sweep the streets.

By the isolated button of Celestial supereminence, it is too bad!

Even before the shooting, three members of his staff�Presidential Counsellor Edwin Meese, Chief of Staff James Baker, and Deaver�had achieved a kind of supereminence.

Welles took it handsomely, as do most of McCarthy's targets, who are invariably delighted to be ribbed by such a supereminence.