We now have an ultimate aspirational resume, truly surpassing all before it, well beyond mere yuppie ambition and into an undreamed of sort of pre-career virtuosity: that of 25-year-old Ronan Farrow, who, without ever hardly having had a paying job, has gone from faceless celebrity-family member to historical entity in the period of a few weeks.
But one minority community's misery has truly surpassed all others: Egypt's Coptic Christians.
We can't promise any one of these truly surpasses the bizarreness that is "Accidental Racist," but we're taking a stab at it.
None, though, can truly be said to have surpassed the originals financially – and certainly not in cultural impact.
But to surpass it by $900,000 is truly impressive.
The Afghan campaign was truly a triumph, and Mr. Bush has surpassed other recent presidents in gathering smart and experienced advisers in security matters.
At the turn of the twentieth century, they got to see Ruth's record surpassed six times, including McGwire's truly impossible seventy, in 1998, and Bonds's seventy-three, in 2001.
The terrorist attacks on New York and the Pentagon have truly become the story of a lifetime on television, surpassing even the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, which no network covered for more than 70 consecutive hours.
Great artists of all types and stripes confront the same challenge: once they've created something truly brilliant, how do they ever equal it, much less surpass it?
Some questioned the authenticity of the painting as truly a Da Vinci, but with a price tag that far surpassed initial estimates the concern now seems irrelevant.
A mammogram-reading machine that not only mimics but surpasses human perception and can explain its diagnosis would truly be a girl's best friend.
