At Williams, his otherness fuelled both his sense of inferiority and his tenacity.

NEWYORKER: Method Man

In the years of Perestroika and following the collapse, Russians carried a pronounced sense of inferiority about themselves: a sense that foreign stuff was the best.

BBC: Remnants of Russia��s past

Mr Obama's combination of calmness and humility could well help America deal with a country whose national pride is dangerously spiked with a sense of inferiority.

ECONOMIST: America and Russia

If the Palestinians got everything they want a sovereign nation and even, let's say, a nuclear weapon they would wake the next morning still hounded by a sense of inferiority.

WSJ: Israel and the Surrender of the West

For example, we ignore that the Palestinians and for that matter much of the Middle East are driven to militancy and war not by legitimate complaints against Israel or the West but by an internalized sense of inferiority.

WSJ: Israel and the Surrender of the West

She also highlights the social pressure that the cult of beauty exerted on women, and even on Dinah Washington, who always harboured a sense of physical inferiority.

ECONOMIST: Dinah Washington