She was a surpassingly beautiful woman. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : structures of surpassing magnificence. From Dictionary.com.
Gopnik greatly admires Lincoln, whom he describes as surpassingly pragmatic and shrewd. From Wordnik.com. [Blog updates] Reference
No matter how serious the conservative crisis is, liberals remain surpassingly effective at making themselves unelectable. From Wordnik.com. [December 2005] Reference
Great in life, he was surpassingly great in death. From Wordnik.com. [Public Speaking] Reference
The Manyuema country is all surpassingly beautiful. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole] Reference
The music of this opera is surpassingly delightful. From Wordnik.com. [The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas] Reference
Forsooth, who can it be, so surpassingly beautiful!. From Wordnik.com. [Hung Lou Meng, Book I Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference
"Great in life, he was surpassingly great in death.". From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography.] Reference
The situation of the village is surpassingly beautiful. From Wordnik.com. [Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War] Reference
They were simply surpassingly horrible -- unmentionable. From Wordnik.com. [The Priest, The Woman And The Confessional] Reference
Early after a venture in his gambling schemes so surpassingly. From Wordnik.com. [Joyce's Investments A Story for Girls] Reference
It is in this word-painting that he is surpassingly admirable. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol III, Issue VI, June, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
Sometimes deceit is merely that; sometimes it is surpassingly cruel. From Wordnik.com. [Held Hostage By Hypocrisy] Reference
"Kearn!" her voice thrilled, low and surpassingly sweet in his ears. From Wordnik.com. [The Fifth Ace] Reference
"" Ned Devine '' is a surpassingly sweet, funny and picturesque movie. From Wordnik.com. [The Pluck Of The Irish] Reference
A surpassingly messy divorce played out day after day on the front page. From Wordnik.com. [The Leaders] Reference
But it's a surpassingly complicated story built on scenarios and slow fuses. From Wordnik.com. [J. Carl Ganter: Water Tops Climate Change as Global Priority] Reference
For things are surpassingly raw, and I don't see this changing any time soon. From Wordnik.com. [In Search Of The Truth] Reference
The light pull-off enables a steady shooter to make surpassingly fine diagrams. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 530, February 27, 1886] Reference
I must declare that, all in all, the scenery of the province is surpassingly beautiful. From Wordnik.com. [Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses] Reference
Araba scarp surpassingly beautiful, and my farewell mood showed me its beauties, keenly. From Wordnik.com. [Seven Pillars of Wisdom] Reference
The sound of the flute was surpassingly sweet and the Dome used to play on it every day. From Wordnik.com. [Folklore of the Santal Parganas] Reference
Pao-yü pondered within himself that Tai-yü had become still more surpassingly handsome. From Wordnik.com. [Hung Lou Meng] Reference
In the drawing-room, where the ceremony took place, every thing was surpassingly elegant. From Wordnik.com. [Twenty-Two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman Embracing a Correspondence of Several Years, While President of Wilberforce Colony, London, Canada West] Reference
Your hooded head makes you surpassingly beautiful; you need not fear to be a figure of fun. From Wordnik.com. [Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso] Reference
And the fourth lawgiver, they say, was Bocchoris the king, a wise and surpassingly skilful man. From Wordnik.com. [ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus] Reference
It's a surpassingly clever stroke — one of many small marvels in this intricately constructed novel. From Wordnik.com. [Lolita At 50, And Forever Young] Reference
The devil is surpassingly cunning, and, if he can, he will mix an opiate even with the sacramental wine. From Wordnik.com. [My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year] Reference
Second, Jell-O is always and surpassingly sweet, which is the way most Americans like most foods to taste. From Wordnik.com. [Our National Dessert] Reference
Now comes the reward: the surpassingly difficult task of governing for the sake of history, not mere victory. From Wordnik.com. [ROVE UNLEASHED] Reference
The names, however, then surpassingly brilliant, of Chateaubriand and Madame de Staël, belong to this period. From Wordnik.com. [Classic French Course in English] Reference
The moon was high and bright, and the country about him surpassingly peaceful and beautiful under the white sheen. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 33, December, 1873] Reference
His crimes were too big for the law, so surpassingly damaging that his very presence paralyzed the Constitution itself. From Wordnik.com. [Eight Years Ago] Reference
A new and surpassingly beautiful landscape burst suddenly upon our view, seeming to dance in the transparent atmosphere. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 342, April, 1844] Reference
A cherry tree that I much admired, and the fruit of which I found surpassingly delicious, I must allow myself to describe. From Wordnik.com. [Mizora: A Prophecy A MSS. Found Among the Private Papers of the Princess Vera Zarovitch] Reference
No matter what investigators ultimately conclude, those who love the little girls are now in a surpassingly awkward situation. From Wordnik.com. [A Mysterious Baby Mix-Up] Reference
Another surpassingly rare object is a sort of bronze aquarium, a shallow dish with fish depicted on the base, from the first century A.D. From Wordnik.com. [Afghan Antiquity] Reference
The little man nodded his head, and showed his teeth; and yet seemed not quite convinced that it was a surpassingly desirable arrangement. From Wordnik.com. [Little Dorrit] Reference
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