Word: surmounting
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...Over two long months of awkward silences at the dinner table, non-greetings, and translational boo-boos, we’ve both arrived at the conclusion that divisions of race, culture, generation, and economic class are not as easy to surmount as general wisdom would have it. No ringing choruses of “We are the World” in this house. Our conversational exchanges never quite leave the sphere of the superficial; the lofty realms of ’80s-synth-happy harmony are as accessible to us as Betelgeuse...
Winterbottom tried to surmount the text’s difficulties by making the adaptation a comical tribute to how tough it is to adapt the novel to screen. The scenes switch between actors reenacting scenes from the book and the same actors interacting “off-screen” with the production staff of the faux-film. Steve Coogan stars as Tristram Shandy himself and as Shandy’s father in the movie within a movie. Off-screen, he plays himself, “Steve Coogan...
...goals and an assist as BU (5-6-1, 0-1-1 America East) handed Harvard (4-5-1, 0-2 Ivy) its fourth straight loss. After a scoreless first half, Chin knocked home his first goal with 31:14 remaining, creating a deficit the Crimson would not surmount. “That first goal just kind of flicked through and was kind of a letdown,” senior defenseman William Craig said. After that tally, the Harvard defense again stiffened, but a goal with 9:17 remaining and Chin’s second goal with just...
...agreed. Nabokov had explored everything: academia and the racetrack, the opera house and mountains. But he still had his father’s literary legacy to surmount...
...Crimson appeared to lack the legs necessary to surmount the two-goal deficit, one which loomed all the larger against a physical Cornell squad that was granting few handouts...