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It's not terribly cinematic but the writing and the acting are both superb, which is more important to me.

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  1. adjective Of unusually high quality; excellent: a superb wine; superb skill.
  2. adjective Majestic; imposing: The cheetah is a superb animal.
  3. adjective Rich; luxurious.

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  • She was superb, and he had listened with a shame deepened by the consciousness that, remembering him from a chance meeting, she attributed to him an honor and decency he had relinquished, it seemed to him, in some state of existence before the dawn of time. —  Blacksheep! Blacksheep!
  • Among all the women of the bright company she alone was superb, and not less regal for his remembrance of her anger, the anger that had brought tears to her lovely eyes At the conclusion of the number, she remained, to his discomfiture, at the farther end of the platform, and when he hurried forward in the hope of detaching her from the group that surrounded her she did not see him at all, which was wholly discouraging. —  Blacksheep! Blacksheep!
  • Ha! it looks magnifique--superb The first spoonful produced an expression on Henri's face that needed not to be interpreted. —  The Dog Crusoe and his Master
  • She looked superb, as with graceful dignity she glided through the quadrille. —  Isabel Leicester A Romance by Maude Alma
  • The scenery was declared superb, and the uncertainty of the situation most satisfying. —  The Daughter of a Magnate
 

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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Latin superbus, arrogant, superior; see uper in Indo-European roots.

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  1. = French superbe = Spanish soberbio = Portuguese soberbo = Italian superbo, from Latin superbus, proud, haughty, domineering, from super, over: see super-. Cf. Greek ὑπέρβιος, overweening, outrageous, from ὑπέρ, over, + βία, strength, force.
 

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