Sentence examples for question superseded from inspiring English sources

That question superseded everything, even the usual genre and age-demographic lines.

E. L. Doctorow, whose novel "The Book of Daniel" was largely sympathetic to the accused couple even as it indicted the larger society, also said that a larger question superseded whether they spied: "It was what happened to them, as if a society turned its magnifying lens on these people until they caught fire and were burned alive".

At times the questions were superseded by events, and by concentrating on these questions participants felt they "had excluded additional important comments" (Cronin 2008, p. 5).

A recent trend of science books designed to answer little questions was superseded by another thriving genre: the great sweeping panorama, linking scientific phenomena to history and human activity.

Reached by e-mail on a plane, Jim VandeHei, executive editor and a founder of Politico, suggested that the imperatives of the news cycle superseded questions of custody.

It was a question of survival, which superseded all political division.

So, for now, the question of a teacher's competency has been superseded by the question of napping.

For reasons that needn't detain us here, Wright suggests that this 'best explanation test' should be superseded by questions concerning what he calls width of cosmological role (1992, Ch.5).

With "Our Beloved Month of August," which opens today at Anthology Film Archives, the young Portuguese director Miguel Gomes breezily supersedes questions of naturalism and artifice with his interweave of stories set in the summer-resort village of Arganil — some of which concern his own troubles making the film.

An obvious limitation is that hardware and software wear out and are superseded, but the big questions are around ethics.

Though perhaps superseded by more urgent questions in recent years, this problem remains unsolved.