I overcame what I thought was an insurmountable challenge -- my fear of heights.
For this, the director, in her quest, turns to Karl Jung (his notion of adumbratio in the essay "The Soul and Death") and... in a final desperate move (as the fear becomes insurmountable, when mid-quest she is diagnosed with a life-threatening lung collapse), to a Brazilian shaman who takes her into the mouth of a snake.
I watched as her fears became insurmountable in her mind and the anxiety threatened her ability to heal.
But so far they have not, and for a probably insurmountable reason: the secular parties fear the Islamists more than they dislike the present regimes.By comparison with the regimes and the Islamist movements, the secular opposition parties are at a particular disadvantage.
In fact, this was at the core of my accessibility fear: That I would face insurmountable roadblocks that would force me to progress, a prisoner of biology and someone else's moral framework.
Forget the East and West coasts; the green wall and fears of terrorist attacks are insurmountable.
We need elected officials to make some hard decisions (for example, means testing for Social Security) so we can undertake more short-term borrowing without fear of drowning our children in insurmountable debt.
It is at times the little things that one can get lost it in, it is the big things that seem so insurmountable that mean so much that we often push aside for fear of the unknown and maybe for fear of the pain the knowledge can cause.
When Laurent Koscielny stole up from defense to head the first goal, and then Tomas Rosicky calmly stroked in the second, we could see Arsenal begin to believe, and Milan to fear, that a four-goal deficit was not insurmountable.
Micronesia President Peter Christian said Pacific islanders fear that the ocean has been left the insurmountable task of healing itself after being used as "a dumping ground for industrial waste" and to absorb other pollution. .
