Mr. McCain tried to soar above the brittle fight here, barely mentioning his opponent by name.
Muhammad, a U.C.L.A. freshman, tried to soar over Georgetown center Nate Lubick for an impressive one-handed dunk.
Twice on Tuesday night, Latrell Sprewell tried to soar over Dikembe Mutombo, the Atlanta Hawks' All-Star center, for dunks.
With its strained, quasi-poetic language that fitfully tries to soar, "The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond" is a significant, though less than monumental feat of reclamation.
If "Zarkana" tries to soar in a different way from "Spider-Man," both shows struggle to tell human stories that are potentially overshadowed by their productions' bombastic, high-tech scale.
While there was some overlap -- both paid dutiful heed to New York's diversity, for example -- Mrs. Clinton generally tried to soar into the lyrical while Mr. Lazio aimed for solid ground.
(Dargis)20100128 'LOSS OF A TEARDROP DIAMOND' (PG-13, 1 42) With strained, quasi-poetic language that fitfully tries to soar, this Southern period piece, which exhumes an obscure Tennessee Williams screenplay written in 1957, is a significant, though less than monumental, feat of reclamation.
One morning last fall, on the way to her job as an occupational therapist at the Little Rock Veterans Administration Medical Center, Sarah V. Smith was driving along a rural road adjacent to the Arkansas River when a doe tried to soar over the roof of her car.
In true Progressive fashion, he dreamed of government by enlightened, public-spirited experts, as opposed to venal (but democratic) Tammany-style pols, and he kept trying to soar above politics, defining himself as a "progressive" rather than a "regular" Republican.
Much the way a bird would be held back if it clung to the branch it's trying to soar away from, holding on to hurt or pain you're trying to leave behind will only keep you from getting off the ground.
