insurpassable

If the national capital has bull-feasting every Sunday of the year, all the famous torreros come from Andalusia, with the bulls, their brave antagonists, and in the great provincial capital there are bull-feasts of insurpassable, if not incomparable, splendor.

Familiar Spanish Travels 2004

Nobody is obliged to believe this, but I should be sorry if any reader of mine questioned the insurpassable antiquity of Toledo, as attested by a cloud of chroniclers.

Familiar Spanish Travels 2004

As for the pair of Civil Guards who were to go with us, they were of an insurpassable beauty and propriety, and we felt it a peculiar honor when one of them got into the compartment beside ours.

Familiar Spanish Travels 2004

Add insurpassable antiquity, add tragedy, add unendurable orthodoxy, add the pathos of hopeless decay, and I think I would rather give a day than a lifetime to Toledo.

Familiar Spanish Travels 2004

However, we argue that (1) many rules constitute poor guides for decision-making, for one or more of the reasons discussed above; and (2) that individuals experience great, if not insurpassable, difficulties if they seek to distinguish useful rules from all others.

THE MORAL DIMENSION Amitai Etzioni 1988

However, we argue that (1) many rules constitute poor guides for decision-making, for one or more of the reasons discussed above; and (2) that individuals experience great, if not insurpassable, difficulties if they seek to distinguish useful rules from all others.

THE MORAL DIMENSION Amitai Etzioni 1988

The ripper sat staring at the rafter with tears in his eyes as the loathing for the derelicts surpassed a hatred which he had foolishly believed was insurpassable.

An East Wind Coming Cover, Arthur Byron 1979

Great parts of them are insurpassable in their clarity, their quickness, and their brilliance.

Nobel Prize in Literature 1925 - Presentation Speech 1925

{18} Granted that there may be experienced campaigners and fighters among them; yet, he tells me, Philip is so jealous of honour, that he thrusts all such men away from him, in his anxiety to get the credit of every achievement for himself; for in addition to all his other qualities, his jealousy is insurpassable.

The Public Orations of Demosthenes, volume 1 384 BC-322 BC Demosthenes 1912

She was aware that there are certain insurpassable limits to human knowledge; all the same, woman-like, she raised herself on tip-toe, and tried to peep over the boundaries.

The Divine Fire May Sinclair 1904