insuperable \in-SOO-puh-ruh-bul\
adjective: incapable of being surmounted, overcome, passed over, or solved
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Though it had appeared that the visiting team had an insuperable lead, the home team rallied to win in the end.
"The project faced a perpetual lack of funding, constant bureaucratic delays, and, by the '30s, the near-insuperable hurdles of reconciling parts of Tolstoy's work (especially his religious writings) with the state's demands." — From a post by Sal Robinson on Melville House Press's MobyLives blog, October 21, 2013
DID YOU KNOW?
"Insuperable" first appeared in print in the 14th century, and it still means now approximately what it did then. "Insuperable" is a close synonym of "insurmountable." In Latin, "superare" means "to go over, surmount, overcome, or excel." The Latin word "insuperabilis" was formed by combining the common prefix "in-" (meaning "not" or "un-") with "superare" plus "abilis" ("able"). Hence "insuperabilis" meant "unable to be surmounted, overcome, or passed over," or more simply, "insurmountable." The word "insuperabilis" was later anglicized as "insuperable." Related words such as "superable," "superably," and even "superableness" have also found a place in English.
Rise like Lions after slumber
In unvanquishable number -
Shake your chains to earth like dew
Which in sleep had fallen on you -
Ye are many - they are few.
Percy Bysshe Shelley, "The Mask of Anarchy" (1819)
Robert Koehler for Cinema Guild: "Sweetgrass and the Future of Nonfiction Cinema."
Hand, Judith L. Women, Power, and the Biology of Peace. San Diego, CA: Questpath, 2003>
Alinsky, Saul. Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals. NY: Vintage Books, 1971.
I am literally exploding with geeky joy as a result of this new series from America's Test Kitchen: Cooking with the Classics
Divarication Dithyramb
by Wesley Houp
While reading William Duiker’s
sweeping biography of Ho Chi Minh,
I hear Ken Chenault, CEO and Chairman of
American Express, tout his commitment to
American Small Businesses, exhorting
American People to support their local economies
on Small Business Saturday in addition to supporting
Multinational Corporations on Black Friday,
assuring distant and faceless consumers
that American Express is committed
to serving “a” common good.
And while MSNBC hosts clamor to be first
to express on behalf of a nation of “shareholders”
a profound gratitude for such life and liberty-affirming acts
of selfless sacrifice, generosity, and collective hope,
“Uncle Ho,” the heart and soul
of the long and bloody Vietnamese struggle for independence
from European and American Imperialism,
bends in a grainy photograph, hoe in hand,
to tend his small garden at the edge of the Presidential Palace,
an opulence he shunned for simplicity of a small Stilt House
built in the style of the Viet Bac,
emblematic of a life lived close to the earth
along side poverty and despair and terror and hope
and solidarity with a nation of ten million peasants.
The Dirty Sheep - Wolf Like Me (TV on the radio cover) from evolufilm on Vimeo.
Alan Noble for Patheos: "The Knockout Game Myth and its Racist Roots."
Last minute food ideas for the holiday? Check out America's Test Kitchen
Pope Francis causes a stir: In The Guardian - "Pope Francis calls unfettered capitalism 'tyranny' and urges rich to share wealth." and Joe Weisenthal for The Business Insider - "The Pope Just Published One Of The Most Powerful Critiques Of Modern Capitalism That You Will Ever Read" (on the second one, obviously Weisenthal has never bothered to read Karl Marx or the countless critics of capitalism that followed his important writings)
James D. Schwartz for The Urban Country: "Dad Arrested For Picking Up Kids At School By Foot."
James Mooney in Filmosophy: "The Problem of Evil in Film"
Belle Beth Cooper for Lifehacker: "The Science Behind Posture and How It Affects Your Brain."
Niall Lucy for Screening the Past re-assesses Nicholas Ray's 1954 film Johnny Guitar: "The Western Suburbs."
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