Word: surmountable
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...famous shocker: "6.54. My propositions are elucidatory in this way: he who understands me finally recognizes them as senseless, when he has climbed out through them, on them, over them. (He must so to speak throw away the ladder, after he has climbed up on it.) He must surmount these propositions; then he sees the world rightly...
...herself falling for King Marchan (Dennis Cole), a Chicago businessman/gangster, who in turn is anguished by his attraction to this 'man.' In this happy world, of course, King eventually learns to love beyond the boundaries of gender (albeit not before many gratuitous 'queen' plays on his name) and to surmount his underworld associates' objections. And all this while so many people come out of the closet you'd think it had fleas...
Unfortunately for Harvard, Clarkson, with its five six-footers on defense, proved too big and strong to surmount. Allman's shot, despite all the efforts of the shooter, deflected harmlessly off a defenseman. Only five Crimson shots in the third actually reached Grant, and the netminder turned them all aside...
Harvard has chosen to surmount institutionaldifficulties in these other arenas, which begs thequestion Hoyte and Harvard coaches have asked: Whyhasn't the University made a similar effort todiversify athletics...
First of all, Joyce tossed out most of the narrative techniques found in 19th century fiction. Ulysses has no discernible plot, no series of obstacles that a hero or heroine must surmount on the way to a happy ending. The book offers no all-knowing narrator, a la Dickens or Tolstoy, to guide the reader--describe the characters and settings, provide background information, summarize events and explain, from time to time, the story's moral significance...