Tunneling, also called barrier penetration, in physics, passage of minute particles through seemingly impassable force barriers.
At one point the procession claws upward through a seemingly impassable field of boulders.
In "Position Among the Stars" (2010), the last in Mr. Helmrich's Indonesian trilogy, a boy carrying laundry on a hanger that streams behind him like Batman's cape races through the streets of Jakarta, the camera swooping, trailing and negotiating seemingly impassable alleyways before it plunges toward the gutter and then leaps to the sky.
Now fallen into neglect, the well-constructed path can still be traced as it edges its way along the steep sides of the loch, crossing seemingly impassable rock faces with relative ease and an unforgettable prospect of the rough peaks of the Knoydart peninsula across the water.
From Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates Bill Gates on down, scores of company strategies and product offerings are hinged on bridging the once seemingly impassable gap between common household products and digital gadgets that talk to the Internet.
So how do we cross this seemingly impassable divide?
Both Brexit and Assembly talks have hit seemingly impassable snags; analysts would be better served considering the common denominator.
The Germans believed they had thoroughly sealed off the area, and checked the Croatian cordon every night, but the majority of Partisans were able to evade the cordon and escape by breaking up into small groups and infiltrating through the cordon through seemingly impassable terrain.
Coates and I had a great conversation over email, where we discussed Between the World and Me, the rhetoric of the black body, and what it takes to discuss race in a culture that makes such discussions so contentious and, at times, seemingly impassable.
