pre-eminently

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(adv) to a preeminent degree; with superiority or distinction above others; in a preeminent manner

The telephone, modern painting, but pre-eminently television are cool and good.
To your Greenwich Villager, France appears pre-eminently the land of personal liberty where individual expression is unshackled.
He submitted to the favoritism or political considerations that placed lesser men over him, obeyed orders, and was pre-eminently a good soldier.

Franklin Roosevelt once said that the presidency was "pre-eminently a place of moral leadership," and his fifth cousin, Theodore Roosevelt, called it a "bully pulpit."
on Jun 27, 2010 By: Franklin D Roosevelt Source: Toledo Blade
Specter said the FISA court "has really an outstanding record of not leaking, and of being experts. And they would be pre-eminently well-qualified to evaluate this program and either say it's OK or it's not OK."
on Feb 5, 2006 By: Arlen Specter Source: USA Today
Professor Harry Kroto, joint winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1996, said: "It surely comes as no surprise that DNA has come out top. It is not only pre-eminently important to understanding almost every fundamental aspect of life itself but...
on Jun 15, 2010 By: Harold Kroto Source: The Press Association