Sentence examples for surmount audience from inspiring English sources

Liaisons was revived on Broadway fairly recently, in a 2008 production that starred Laura Linney and Ben Daniels and did little to surmount audience memories of Alan Rickman and Lindsay Duncan in the stage debut or Glenn Close and John Malkovich in the Stephen Frears film.

Mainstream movies with disabled characters follow a well-worn path that begins with an obstacle — be it a hardened heart ("Rain Man"), the inability to read ("The Miracle Worker") or merely life itself ("Forrest Gump") — and ends with the barrier surmounted and audience members reaching for their Kleenex.

Mansur's palace was a remarkable building of 360,000 sq ft. Its most striking feature was the 130ft-high green dome above the main audience chamber, visible for miles around and surmounted by the figure of a horseman with a lance in his hand.

And the dancers rouse the audience to appreciative applause and cheers when they surmount all the difficulties of synchronized marching and coordinated strength in their immensely difficult version of "The Parade of the Wooden Soldiers".

Performed before a remarkably supportive audience at the cavernous Universal Amphitheater in Los Angeles, "Comic Relief" faced, and never quite surmounted, a split-personality problem.

It's likely, at this stage in his career and all generosity to the audience aside, that Cruise picks his movies based on what physical challenges they will let him surmount.

Surmount it".

Individuals surmount this.

We surmount them.

Belief can surmount many a hurdle.

Often, they are easy enough to surmount.