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Quotes About Superlative

MARY: I don't think you have dulcet tones. Dulcet means sweet. When are you ever sweet? CATHERINE: My most dulcet tones. I was using the superlative. Everyone has a most something, even if it's not very much. BEATRICE: I think Catherine can be quite sweet when she wants to. CATHERINE: I just don't want to very often.
~ Theodora Goss
A man coined to superlative must expect that his every statement will be taken with some caution
~ Claude C. Hopkins
God" has now done something in Jesus so important that it represents a surpassing further disclosure of divine purposes, both illuminating the eschatological future and also casting a powerful retroactive light on all "God's" prior actions witnessed to in the OT. Everything is given a new meaning in light of Jesus, and Jesus in turn is the superlative vehicle of divine purposes, the new defining divine action in the light of whom one now can and must understand adequately what "God" means.
~ Larry W. Hurtado
Heaven, we were all going direct the other way— in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.
~ Charles Dickens
good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only. There were a king with a large jaw and a queen with a plain face, on the throne of England; there were a
~ Charles Dickens
present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.
~ Charles Dickens
noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.
~ Charles Dickens
the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only. There were a king with a large jaw and a queen with a plain face, on the
~ Charles Dickens
we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way—in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.
~ Charles Dickens
period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.
~ Charles Dickens
some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only. There were a king with a large jaw and a queen with a plain face, on the throne of England; there were a king with
~ Charles Dickens
authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only. There were a king with a large jaw and a queen with a plain face, on the throne of England;
~ Charles Dickens
for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only. There were a king with a large jaw and a queen with a plain face, on the throne of
~ Charles Dickens
were all going direct the other way— in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.
~ Charles Dickens
way—in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.
~ Charles Dickens
Bolshevism, it seems to me,' said Charlie, 'is just a superlative hatred of the thing they call the bourgeois; and what the bourgeois is, isn't quite defined. It is Capitalism, among other things. Feelings and emotions are also so decidedly bourgeois that you have to invent a man without them.
~ D.H. Lawrence
It certainly was," Klaus agreed, not adding that he had known the word "superlative" since he was eleven. "I see that just about every evening," Hector said, "and it always impresses me. It always makes me hungry
~ Lemony Snicket
It's the best of the best. No film can hope to top it(Kubrick's 2001).
~ Ridley Scott
Even though I believe a superlative translation can achieve timelessness, that doesn't mean I think other translators shouldn't attempt other versions. The more the better, in the end.
~ Lydia Davis
This is the greatest
~ Philippa Gregory
Most Asian texts stipulate the real existence of intangible, invisible energies that download into material representation and affects. The Chinese have long referred to these energies as Ch'i, while the Ch'i disciplines advocate understanding and working with, not against, those superlative energies. Basic
~ Unknown
par excellence
~ Unknown
The spirit of Texas seems to pervade our everyday existence. Our desire is to be superlative, not only the largest, but also the best in the United States.
~ Denton Cooley
The guardian and arbiter of superlative eating, with every meal an unforgettable experience in pleasure, starting with the soup, which he said, 'must be the agent provocateur of a good dinner.'
~ Marie-Antoine Careme