Previous big water-based pictures such as The Abyss and Titanic had seen massive commercial and critical success, with Titanic becoming the highest grossing film of all time, superseding any film budget seen before with $200 million spent on its creation.
Like many forward-thinking dispatches offered during the first dot-com bubble, "Hamlet on the Holodeck" can feel dated at times, superseded by a future that is, broadly speaking, darker and stranger than the one Murray anticipated.
Over the past decade, the idea of hiring for "cultural fit" has become as important as, and at times superseded, hiring to fit a job description across forward-looking industries, from tech to transportation.
And so abortion rights issues at times superseded health care reform issues in the debate and other similar examples.
By the time Ephemeris Time was superseded in 1984, it had served two important purposes: (1) the definition of a second of Ephemeris Time served as the basis for the redefinition in 1967 of the SI second on the atomic time scale, and (2) ET was the reference scale used for comparison with rotational time to determine variations in the Earth's rotational speed from about 700 bc to ad 1955.
The Iraq crisis, like Ukraine, will in time be superseded – but that does not mean it will have been resolved.
Mr. Kotkin suggests that if market reforms gain greater traction in Russia, then the rule of law, over time, will supersede the security apparatus -- though he cautions that this is unlikely "in Putin's lifetime".
It was successful for a time but was superseded by Richard Arkwright's water frame in the 1770s.
The wide monochrome stripes that dominated the first floor last time have been superseded by abbreviated slim trousers, boyish blazers, silky blouses: a look that closely echoes Hedi Slimane's first collection for Saint Laurent, which recently arrived half a mile away on Bond Street.
"It was challenging but at the same time the enjoyment superseded the darkness the challenge would bring over you.
