Sentence examples for that surmounts from inspiring English sources
"The truth is, there's a friendship here, a love and a respect here, and a bond, that surmounts all of this stuff," Mr. Farkas said.
That's certainly true in "The Runner Stumbles," a drama that surmounts more than a few problems to become quite an absorbing show.
The face, with its downcast eyes, looks subdued enough, but the hairdo that surmounts it aspires to the visionary, with five long, twisted braids spiraling out into space like snakes from a Medusa head.
The cross that surmounts it is the sole external indication of the edifice's purpose, and I thought as I looked at it that of all the Catholic peoples the Brazilians were probably the most apt to accept such eccentricity without cavil.
Assuming she hadn't hired a private eye to snap grainy black-and-white images of me exiting nightclubs and betting shops, then she was referring to the photo of me that surmounts this text like Nero's ravaged countenance atop a Tuscan column.
In 590 Pope Gregory the Great, conducting a penitential procession to pray for the end of a plague, had a vision of the archangel Michael sheathing his sword over the castle, signifying the end of the plague; from that incident came the structure's modern name and the marble statue of the archangel that surmounts the building.
Police, too, readily admit that surmounting distrust is an issue.
Securing the town, the mayor explained, includes painstakingly restoring the stone walls that delineate the terraced hilltops that surmount it.
The central idea here is that surmounting the midlife hurdle involves breaking down the persona or "false self" that we cling to in our youth.
A strudel "reinterpretation" offered a pastry wedge with icing sugar, that surmounted some delicious cinnamon ice cream and lumps of apple that had become overcaramelised.
And that suggests another problem with hardship porn: its insinuation that surmounting obstacles equals acquiring real character, which is ostensibly impossible without tough times.
