Word: superhumanize
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With hardly a word Maria Callas conveys the extremes of Medea's superhuman passions--her obsession, turning to jealousy, for Jason; her tender love for her children; and the cold cruelty of revenge and finality with which she kills her two sons. She does not act but rather moves with naturalness, with complete assurance and belief in herself...
...Hector, for example, is symbolic, but there was a Trojan War in which great heroes fought. The psychological duel between Faust and the Devil is a philosophical and psychological metaphor, but Georg Faust, a German magician who was born about 1480, did live and did make claims to superhuman power, including the ability to restore the lost works of Plato and Aristotle and to repeat the miracles of Christ. Yet it was not until poets like Christopher Marlowe and Goethe took up the legend that Faust became famous-and mythic. The Faust story appealed to Marlowe and to Goethe because...
...short of awe-inspiring. Bertie runs out of words in describing the depth of Jeeves' intellect, the brains that have rescued him from so many desperate romantic entanglements; he can only ascribe Jeeves' wisdom to the quantities of fish he consumes. From Bertie's vantage point, Jeeves is definitely superhuman, and if we were to ask why he should spend his life looking after such an amiable cretin, he would only reply (as he does in this novel) that there is a tie that binds...
...himself realizes. "A guy sits in the audience," he explains. "He's 25 and scared stiff about what he's going to do with his life. He wants to be that self-sufficient thing he sees up there on the screen in my pictures. A superhuman character who has all the answers, is doubly cool, exists on his own without society or the help of society's police forces." Adds Actress Susan Clark, who worked with Eastwood in Coogan's Bluff: "Part of his sex appeal is the constant mystery: How deeply does he feel...
...film. The rare moments of joy in One Day are the most consequent in telling of Ivan's character. In Solzhenitsyn's novel they arise from an innate hope which constitutes Ivan's endurance. In the film Ivan appears to rasie himself above his suffering by a superhuman effort of will. He becomes a willful hero rather than Solzhenitsyn's enduring stoic. But there is no possible point of departure for his courage and his emotional moments seem merely histrionic. His day becomes a sublime epic pathetically turning into an unsuccessful melodrama...