Word: surmountable
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
TIME TUNNEL (ABC, 8-9 p.m.). Two scientists surmount the barriers of the past and future in an adventure series starring James Darren and Robert Colbert...
This is Cash Bentley's race against time, and he "ran it alone, but it was extraordinary to see this man of forty surmount so many obstacles so gracefully." At one party, he fails to clear a chest and slams to the floor, breaking his leg. He recovers, a morose and different man. Late one night at home, he is obsessed with running the race again. He hands the revolver to his wife, who is unfamiliar with it. With a hurried instruction about the safety catch, he is off. She shoots him dead in mid-air over the sofa...
...Many Germanys? If De Gaulle is ever to achieve the Europe of his vision, he must surmount two tall hurdles: German reunification and the mili tary presence of both American and Russian troops. World War II's solution was to split Germany among the victors; yet Germany-West and East -has proved itself the strongest economic entity in Europe. East Germany provides fully one-fifth of Russian imports each year, while West Germany's gross national product is the free world's second highest (after the U.S.). Alone among World War II's victors in publicly...
That reality is composed of motion, or constant change, is unquestionable. That art gains by truly imitating reality is not. For kinetic art, the dilemma is to surmount the gimmickry necessary to make it move. A question yet unanswered is: Would Leonardo da Vinci have been truer to life if, every minute or so, the Mona Lisa winked...
Late Blessings. Lewis himself had to surmount certain obstacles, not the least of which was the opposition of his father, a Los Angeles real estate and automobile salesman who felt that the only music career open to a Negro was as a lowly jazzman. When he was five, his mother sneaked him off to a piano teacher, later encouraged his lessons on the double bass, an instrument he "got stuck with" in order to fill a gap in his high-school orchestra. He also played on the school football team and his father hoped that he might make a career...