Word: superhumanly
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...country still prone to convulsions of superhuman idealism, Grass remains a man thoroughly distrustful of the soaring and the abstract. "I have no ideology, no Weltanschauung," he recently wrote to a friend. "The last one I had fell apart when I was 17 years...
...time passes with the mesmerizing speed of a Jimi Hendrix guitar solo. There could comfortably be even more. Using such intricate optical effects as split screen, overlapping and double framing, Wadleigh has expanded and enriched the original musical performances so that, in many cases, they seem to be almost superhuman...
...French ideological radicalism carried to its most tiresome and banal extremes. Genct's special merit is his ability to collapse ideological confrontation into self-defeating burlesque which exhausts both characters and audience. His mythological perspective, always starkly simplistic. escapes shrill fury through an almost lyrical insistence on the superhuman labor which sustains all role-playing in the phantasy-world of theatre...
...young. I could never really adhere very strictly to classical music, could never become a good classical player. Could never get anything "down." It amazes me what the classical people have to go through to get something down so that it happens every time. It's really superhuman to maintain the kind of quality that's required...
...case of T. E. Lawrence of Arabia, the burden of his illegitimacy weighed so heavily that it drove him to deeds of improbable and even reckless heroism. In the bizarre personage of King Atahuallpa (Christopher Plummer) Pizarro encounters a man of his own kind, an implacable and almost superhuman force. Atahuallpa gives short shrift to the rabid Catholic missionaries in Pizarro's party and, looking into the explorer's eyes, says tellingly: "Their God is not in your face." Replies Pizarro: "I see my father in your face." The eventual and inevitable execution of Atahuallpa becomes...