To date, our efforts to aid Iraqis in all these areas have failed, but I hope that with guidance from our new Congressional leadership, we can change the course and surpass a merely tolerable outcome in Iraq.
Even so, the result demands a patient viewing, and maybe more than one; only after a second dose did I get the measure of Garrone's mastery, and realize how far he has surpassed, not merely honored, the author's courageous toil.
Surpassing 0.05 merely frees the wider academic community to demand what should have been done voluntarily.
Sony would like for Underworld: Awakenings to surpass the $62 million gross of Underworld: Evolution, but merely surpassing that film's $111 million worldwide take won't justify the $70 million budget this time around.
Buddhist texts state that the Buddha not merely surpassed all yogis in knowledge of previous existences but, in fact, had conquered time.
Baahubali, on the other hand, didn't merely surpass the previous record for an Indian movie, it absolutely demolished it.
That the Nuggets have surpassed their goal of "merely" making the playoffs by clinching the Northwest and one of the top three seeds in the uber-competitive West is a milestone accomplishment which rewards them with a tangible emblem (the division banner) representing the more symbolic achievement of passing an important coming-of-age marker well ahead of the schedule most had projected for them.
Blethyn, happily, not only surpasses her Broadway predecessor in the part (New York stage veteran Anne Pitoniak) but legitimises a play that can seem merely a prolonged, and dubious, conceit.
(Expect to pay $15,000). Not to be outdone, Perrier-Jouët rolled out a hundred-case special edition of its 1998 "Belle Epoque Blanc de Blancs" for about $6,500 a bottle, surpassing Krug's "Clos d'Ambonnay," at merely $3,500.
They satisfy fundamental human desires — not merely to belong but to surpass, to be special, to have power, to be loved — and they do so at a louder volume than does ordinary life.
With familiar repertory, expectations need to be not only manipulated but surpassed for the performance to graduate from the merely enjoyable to the profoundly affecting.
