Sweeping transformations can be made to music, however questionable its worth; and even poor words take on a superior air in such circumstances.

It looked me up and down with a most superior robotic air.

His cultivation gave him a superior air, which sometimes rubbed juries the wrong way.

He quickly replaced his anger with his usual superior air.

"I haven't given it," she said, with the vaguely superior air that young people had when they thought they were being smart.

Usually people would say, I'm kind of a romantic, with a half-embarrassed yet subtly superior air.

He looked into Dillon's eyes with a superior air.

His arrogance and superior air had rubbed her the wrong way.

Alt used to make him feel like this, sometimes still did, with his superior air.