Word: overtaken
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...talking about people on television—most people couldn’t find words for it. There was a surge of actual patriotism, by which I mean a sort of a visceral love of the place, the home, the family. But then that got overtaken by jingoism. I had to go to the West Coast a week after the attacks so I was gone for a week, and when I came back to my astonishment New York was full of flags. It happened during the second week. I mean, I couldn’t believe it, they were...
Events have overtaken Sebastian Junger’s new book Fire with the same uncertainty and rapidity of the wildfires that raced across the western United States in the title essay. What was originally supposed to be a book about dangerous professions and later remade into an compilation of essays has turned into a book tour on the fears and unknown variables of America’s expanding war in Afghanistan...
...about the need for an account of our habits as members of communities. Do these communities sustain virtues? One virtue Hauerwas extols is faithfulness. He urges people to be faithful Roman Catholics or Orthodox Jews or Evangelicals or Muslims. It is faithfulness to a complex tradition that forestalls being overtaken by majoritarianism or convention...
...McLaren driver] Mika Hakkinen or his brother," he says. "No one is going to say, please go ahead and pass me." If anything dented Schumacher's sense of invincibility it was the 1999 British Grand Prix. Then he made a poor start from second on the grid and was overtaken by Coulthard and teammate Irvine. As he tried to force himself back into contention at Stowe corner, his brakes failed and he plowed into a wall at more than 160 km/h. The impact broke the Ferrari's chassis and Schumacher's right leg. An enforced three-month layoff followed...
...Yamaha and European rivals BMW and Ducati. While it still leads the pack when it comes to the heavyweight cruisers favored by Mom and Dad--they're cute on their big bikes, aren't they?--Harley is no longer the No. l seller in the U.S., having been overtaken by Honda last year...