In his new style, Passard has achieved a level of cooking that surpasses his earlier excellence.
Betsy Loeb was a consummate nurse clinician whose professional skills and human kindness surpassed all standards of excellence.
San Jose eliminated Los Angeles in 2011 on the way to the conference finals, but the Sharks' years of steady excellence were surpassed by the up-and-down Kings when they raised California's second Stanley Cup in 2012.
Mark Spitz, the man whose single Games record for excellence Phelps surpassed, has become relevant again, thanks to Lochte, whose failed bid for supremacy was reminiscent of Spitz's letdown in 1968, when he predicted many golds and left with two golds, a silver and a bronze.
To call Washday a 'national treasure' works at a number of levels: firstly, it applies to Ans Westra herself, a photographer of international importance, who has given us so many memorable images of Māori people, though few if any that clearly surpass the "sheer artistic excellence" of the Washday photographs (Westra 1964, Publisher's Note, p. 2).
He described the security preparations as "groundbreaking" in their attention to detail, saying their level of "excellence and comprehension" surpassed any previous such efforts in the United States.
He won 6-3, 3-6, 6-1, 6-1, 7-5 in a semi-final that surpassed even the drama and excellence of the one on Thursday night, when Rafael Nadal beat Roger Federer.
The film's director was Alf Sjöberg, a grandee of the Dramaten, whose reputation for excellence would be surpassed in his life-time only by Bergman's own; he adopted the young author as a kind of protégé.
This superbly well-designed game was published in 2010 in Brooklyn, NY, and it therefore predates CAH while also surpassing it in quality and excellence.
The fundamentals of prosperity are very satisfactory, the cost-of-living index is 4 points below that of last year, railway activities are exceptional, the production of copper and iron is at full flood, and business failures are fewer than in the corresponding period of 1912, while the excellence of foreign trade surpasses even that of the domestic business.
