act superior
Verb
Meaning
act like the master of
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Examples
Comedy is in act superior to tragedy and humourous reasoning superior to grandiloquent reasoning.
Hegel once observed that comedy is in act superior to tragedy and humourous reasoning superior to grandiloquent reasoning. Although Lincoln does not possess the grandiloquence of historical action, as an average man of the people he has its humour.
He is lording it over the students