push the envelope

But what we were trying to do was use machinery and technology to push the envelope — to take a Queen-type thing and literally bring in the technology of a Joy Division or a Kraftwerk or a Human League.

“We set out to push the envelope, and what resonates with me is that for a moment in time, on a comic book movie, we did something that broke down the bounds of whatever had been done in this genre.”

It's really no wonder that the Republican Party, faced with the fact that it is a minority party, has decided to push the envelope even further.

“I love having an idea and figuring out a way to bring it to life,” he says, “including the rest of the chef team to offer input and creativity to continue to push the envelope even more.”

What the Surge found suspicious about Louisiana, though, is that it obeyed the courts’ mandate without much of a fight, unlike Alabama, which continued to try to push the envelope.