Sentence examples for seem to surpass from inspiring English sources

The other, showing the mass graves covered over with earth and marked by placards, evokes, in the barrenness and vastness of the graves, the totality of the Nazi crimes that, somehow, seem to surpass their particular enumeration.

Point masses, gravitational forces operating at a distance, curvatures of space time, finite but unsurpassable velocities, and wave-packets all seem to surpass our powers of imaginative representation.

In his colloquy "The Godly Feast" (1522), while discussing virtuous pagans who seem to surpass most Christians in piety and moral righteousness, one of the characters exclaims that such holiness in a man who did not know Christ makes him hardly able to refrain from praying, "Saint Socrates, pray for us" (CWE 39 194).

These ghostly images seemed to surpass the potency of the original objects of art.

But the election year anger from lawmakers seemed to surpass even Mr. Geithner's tougher posture.

It's the one moment in which the actor's own control is shaky, where the consciousness of acting is overcome by the physical demands of the action, where emotion seems to surpass Clooney's intended expression of it — and it points to one of the paradoxes of the film, and of our time.

His talents for up-keeping and training his troops seemed to surpass that of his peers.

In terms of innovation, however, none seems to surpass Barbara Lehman's "Red Book," a book about, well, a book.

But today's Alice-in-Wonderland polling plot seems to surpass it in terms of being nonsensical.

The last hour had been so personal and effective that it seemed to surpass being something I could pay for.

It's the part that appears deeply obsessed with Obama as a person; an unhealthy obsession that seemed to surpass any interest in his policies.