superlatives

From the Telegraph story: “Bordeaux winegrowers have a habit of throwing in superlatives about vintages and the sceptical may question the fortuity of such a great year given that Bordeaux sales have been falling in the wake of the 2005 boom.”

Bordeaux 09, Sean Connery, Binny’s, uprooting – sipped and spit | Dr Vino's wine blog 2009

I do not like to deal in superlatives, and I do not think I am doing so now when I say that never in the history of the world have there been problems of such complexity as those which have confronted the leaders of Great Britain in the last ten years.

Money and Trade 1931

It cannot but be interesting, for it is an index to the taste of a bygone age -- an age when the survivors of the dead found relief in Latin superlatives, and the living looked into the future with the respectable vanity of an alderman posing before a mirror.

Highways and Byways in Surrey Eric Parker 1912

In one of the acting classes I took in my twenties, we did an exercise called superlatives, in which each of us had to choose a character or action and be the very best at it, whether that meant the best clown or drunk or cheerleader, you name it.

Rinnavation Lisa Rinna 2009

In one of the acting classes I took in my twenties, we did an exercise called superlatives, in which each of us had to choose a character or action and be the very best at it, whether that meant the best clown or drunk or cheerleader, you name it.

Rinnavation Lisa Rinna 2009

Everything one says about this company must be in superlatives.

Good Health is Good Business 1952

'Such an one,' people will say, as they stand to read your epitaph, 'was this Lady Sarah, whose virtues are recorded here in Latin superlatives.

London Pride Or When the World Was Younger 1875

Every high school class has its "superlatives": the student most likely to win a Nobel Peace Prize and the one most likely to cure a disease; the best - and worst-dressed students (Fix won "best dressed" in 8th grade -- OH YEAH!) and the one most likely to become president.

Daily Fix Poll: The Superlatives of 2010! Felicia Sonmez 2010

At "The Big Dance" we all learn where Gonzaga is located, how to spell Valparaiso, that MAC teams are always underrated and that 48 college basketball games over the next four days -- with buzzer-beaters coming in rapid-fire succession -- may actually warrant the kind of superlatives that Dick Vitale can muster for a Southern Illinois-Creighton matchup back in December.

Starr Gazing: Madness 2007

His acrobatic efforts to keep Manchester City at bay last Sunday earned him the kind of superlatives all players crave and, since returning to full fitness, the Edinburghborn player has provided the solid foundation underpinning Sunderland's revival.

Football.co.uk news feed 2010