Sentence examples for work to supersede from inspiring English sources

Mr. Bartlett also played beautifully Mr. Sessions's Six Pieces for Violoncello, which in their big, healthy, dramatic way work to supersede the natural limitations of a solo stringed instrument.

St. Benedict called prayer the opus dei, the work of God and said no work was to supersede it.

Particularly powerful in Manolis' repertoire in this show is his series of challenging and dramatic canvases that are limited specifically to black and white pigment, which are like Franz Kline's glorious experiments without a hint of color, which still are considered his best works and continue to supersede in value any other variety of Kline's work at auction, even today.

The Institutiones ("Institutes") of the Byzantine emperor Justinian I (reigned 527 565), which were intended to supersede Gaius's treatise of the same name, were modeled on the older work in style and content, and numerous passages were copied verbatim.

Ibanez's work chimes with millennia of speculation about the heart's role in cognition – which was sometimes thought to supersede the brain's.

The name Macmillanite came to supersede Cameronian.

They were allowing entertainment to supersede news.

Any federal legislation is likely to supersede state constitutional amendments.

"Do we allow appearances to supersede substance?" Dr. Armen said.

Tesla, meanwhile, who works in an isolated laboratory in the Rocky Mountains, conjures the possibility of innovations that could make the old, mechanical stage magic obsolete, much as digital technology now threatens to supersede the handmade magic of cinema.

Which dilutes Sailfish's signposts with the very Android paradigms it's hoping to supersede.