excelling

They are gentle with him, very loving, but focused on his excelling at football.

She was also a patriot, a Briton, and a wife, excelling at the arts that each of those categories demand of a person.

Until then, Drain had a more ordinary teenage experience: excelling in school sports, more excited by boys than religion.

Young women today are excelling in every way imaginable: better grades, better graduation rates, and so on.

For instance, he says, boys often think that reading a book or excelling in class is uncool or “unmasculine.”

Was Norman quite proof against the consciousness of daily excelling all his competitors?

An Indian chief, excelling all his tribe at a war-dance, could not have outdone the grotesque movements of the colonel.

Of sport for sport's sake he knew nothing, he took part in no games for the sake of excelling in them.

It is not vanity, or I would play, confident of excelling her.

He saw Italian youths already excelling, as they all do, in the drawing of the figure.