These various courses all seemed insuperably difficult to the student. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : an insuperable barrier. From Dictionary.com.
The more accurate the simulation, the more insuperably complex the task. From Wordnik.com. [The Muse in the Machine] Reference
There's no end to the possibilities in that man — if he weren't so insuperably lazy. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 36] Reference
Like Cathy, the lead character played insuperably by Laura Linney on The Big C, Hunt's voice has a humorous midwestern frankness about it. From Wordnik.com. [Fabio Periera: Darlene Hunt, The Big Creator] Reference
Mr. de Quincey was urged to attempt the collection himself, his emphatic reply was: 'Sir, the thing is absolutely, insuperably, and forever impossible. From Wordnik.com. [Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
Now, it may be that certain numbers will make it insuperably difficult to have the definition of “customer” changed to include investors through feeder funds. From Wordnik.com. [Feeder Funds And The SIPC] Reference
Nock was writing in 1936, and his idea was that the mid-thirties opponents of the inevitable slide toward socialism were being insuperably hampered by the need to appeal to a mass audience. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » DeMint’s Remnant] Reference
He tried to gather a fund of optimism and somewhat succeeded — they were young, they were adventuring together, and the Yucatan was insuperably exotic and was an intoxicant they could yet hope to share. From Wordnik.com. [Gansevoort Ridge] Reference
I'm referring to the wince-inducing twice-in-two-weeks uncritical Times gush over Donnie Andrews (the model for the character of Omar Little in -- the insuperably wonderful -- HBO series The Wire), who also happens to be a convicted cold-blooded murderer. From Wordnik.com. [Sheila Weller: Note to NYT: If You're Going to Selectively Gush Over White-Gown-and-Bouquet Weddings, Keep Cold-Blooded Murderer Grooms Out] Reference
"Of course," faltered Vivian, insuperably buoyed up by company. From Wordnik.com. [Virginia of Elk Creek Valley] Reference
Beside this very estimable quality, they are also insuperably lazy. From Wordnik.com. [Visit to Iceland] Reference
There's no end to the possibilities in that man - if he weren't so insuperably lazy. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 36] Reference
First, remember that love's infinite ideal is an insuperably graceful, radiant manifestation of the human spirit. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
This instant at which I speak to you shows me again exactly how, to my great misfortune, you just insuperably charm me. From Wordnik.com. [The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1] Reference
Of course my headline here plays off of the title of "The Giant of Illinois," the spooky and insuperably beautiful song by. From Wordnik.com. [Chicago Reader] Reference
He lost entirely the sense of her fragile physical being; she seemed only a spirit, shining and high, and insuperably lovely. From Wordnik.com. [The Three Black Pennys A Novel] Reference
They set out after breakfast, breaking through a thin crust of snow, which rendered the march almost insuperably difficult, and they had made. From Wordnik.com. [Masters of the Wheat-Lands] Reference
But, if an invasion shall take place, I shall deeply regret all circumstances which would insuperably bar my having an active command in the field. From Wordnik.com. [Washington and the American Republic, Vol. 3.] Reference
But, for any further advance in power and light, the way seemed insuperably closed until a profound conversation with the great savant and optician, Sir David. From Wordnik.com. [The Humbugs of the World An Account of Humbugs, Delusions, Impositions, Quackeries, Deceits and Deceivers Generally, in All Ages] Reference
Now, it may be that certain numbers will make it insuperably difficult to have the definition of "customer" changed to include investors through feeder funds. From Wordnik.com. [GlobalResearch.ca] Reference
He could imagine that she had found Harrisburg insuperably dull, the hours with only Cherette empty after the emotional debauches of the plays elected by Vivian Blane. From Wordnik.com. [The Three Black Pennys A Novel] Reference
Yet, for all their insuperably repellent exterior, I could detect something good in these fellows, and envied them the cheerful good-fellowship which united them in one. From Wordnik.com. [Youth] Reference
I have worked on that assumption during the later stages of the investigation, and it has explained several points insuperably difficult to correlate with the rest of the facts. From Wordnik.com. [The Saltmarsh Murders]
They set out after breakfast, breaking through a thin crust of snow, which rendered the march almost insuperably difficult, and they had painfully made a league or two by the approach of night. From Wordnik.com. [Hawtrey's Deputy] Reference
Possibly it may not be so very great as the vast difference in results may lead us to suppose, and if this be so the reorganisation of the child's educational system will not be insuperably difficult. From Wordnik.com. [A Plea for the Criminal Being a reply to Dr. Chapple's work: 'The Fertility of the Unfit', and an Attempt to explain the leading principles of Criminological and Reformatory Science] Reference
Japanese landscape-drawing reduces things seen to such fewness as must have made the art insuperably tedious to any people less fresh-spirited and more inclined to take themselves seriously than these. From Wordnik.com. [Essays] Reference
But while he searched the spoil and refused all offers of treaty, his enemies collected their spirits and their forces: the passes of retreat were insuperably barred; and the trembling Nicephorus was heard to exclaim. From Wordnik.com. [The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire] Reference
I have examined the mountain on every side, but find myself insuperably barred -- teach me the way to break my prison; thou shalt be the companion of my flight, the guide of my rambles, the partner of my fortune, and my sole director in the CHOICE OF LIFE. From Wordnik.com. [Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia] Reference
Linda was insuperably tired. From Wordnik.com. [Linda Condon] Reference
In watery barriers bound insuperably. From Wordnik.com. [The Poems of William Watson] Reference
"Not insuperably, I hope.". From Wordnik.com. [The Greater Inclination] Reference
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