Sony would like for Underworld: Awakenings to surpass the $62 million gross of Underworld: Evolution, but merely surpassing that film's $111 million worldwide take won't justify the $70 million budget this time around.
With familiar repertory, expectations need to be not only manipulated but surpassed for the performance to graduate from the merely enjoyable to the profoundly affecting.
Blethyn, happily, not only surpasses her Broadway predecessor in the part (New York stage veteran Anne Pitoniak) but legitimises a play that can seem merely a prolonged, and dubious, conceit.
They satisfy fundamental human desires — not merely to belong but to surpass, to be special, to have power, to be loved — and they do so at a louder volume than does ordinary life.
Even so, the result demands a patient viewing, and maybe more than one; only after a second dose did I get the measure of Garrone's mastery, and realize how far he has surpassed, not merely honored, the author's courageous toil.
But Newton has surpassed any reasonable expectations.
But corporate results have surpassed many forecasts.
But even that has been surpassed.
Yet Biles, truly a once-in-a-lifetime athlete, was merely the bandleader of a quintet that may never be surpassed.
To date, our efforts to aid Iraqis in all these areas have failed, but I hope that with guidance from our new Congressional leadership, we can change the course and surpass a merely tolerable outcome in Iraq.
