1.   Classical motifs were being read as assertions of French cultural superiority, and decorative painting as a genre became associated with a reactionary nationalism.

2.   France, busy colonizing Arab North Africa and the Middle East, took comfort in its cultural superiority and lurid images of peoples so unlike itself.

3.   So in the name of social egalitarianism, claims of cultural superiority are shunned as provincial and presumptuous and embarrassing.

4.   The British just pulled way ahead in the friendly competition for cultural superiority with the United States.

5.   The situation is galling to a nation ever eager to proclaim its cultural superiority.

6.   Who better than that great symbol of French cultural superiority, William Christie, of South Wales, N.Y., founder and director of the ensemble Les Arts Florissants?

7.   Education officials pointed out that the cultural superiority program contradicted state law requiring curriculum that fosters appreciation and respect for all cultures.

8.   The team asked dozens of questions designed to expose feelings of nationalism or cultural superiority and attitudes towards foreigners, Rundmo said.