Word: superhumanly
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...most admirable. That position must be awarded to Private Meek, a character modeled on Shaw's great friend, Lawrence of Arabia, and the only character who seems to have any control over his surroundings. While those around him speechify and sermonize, he runs the army outpost with superhuman efficiency and good nature. His totally incompetent commanding officer pays him what sounds like Shaw's ultimate compliment: "I see this man Meek doing everything that is natural to a complete man." Meek has found what the Patient has begun to search for: the satisfying responsibilities of a useful job with none...
...work of Gustave Moreau . . . des Esseintes saw, realized at last, the strange and superhuman Salome he had dreamed of . . . the accursed Beauty, marked out from all others by the catalepsy which stiffened her flesh and hardened her muscles; the monstrous Beast, indifferent, unresponsive, unfeeling and, like Helen in antiquity, poisoning everyone who came near...
...Buendias of One Hundred Years of Solitude were a superhuman dynasty, and they lived out their one hundred years as if they were in their natural element. Fifty years passed, but Aureliano went on making little gold fishes and planning for a "mortal con-flagration that would wipe out all vestiges of a regime of corruption." Fifty years of wind and rain passed, and Aureliano's father remained tied to the tree in the yard. "Four years, eleven months, and two days" of rain flooded the town, but his mother kept the house dry and safe...
...After the interminable drone of the Watergate hearings, the picture that lingers in the mind is of a beleaguered President gathering the dignity of his presidential robes about him and responding with an almost superhuman patience and courtesy to a group of reporters, all with their knives out and all visibly thirsting for his blood. It reminded me of the howling savages dancing around the suffering Uncas tied to the stake in The Last of the Mohicans...
...missing link, the lost piece in the jigsaw puzzle would stumble against his feet, and allow at long last his masterplan to reach a productive and manifest fruition. Harry, who was to bring the Big B into vogue in Cambridge, and make the James Browns and Floyd Lewises into superhuman and unquestioned BMOCs. Harry, who hoped to transform the phone booth gymnasium perched atop the ancient. IAB complex like an ascetic's mountain retreat into a hotbed of vituperative energy and activity which would emanate from its fourth-floor generator like a pulsing and life-giving sign. Harry, whose massive...