Word: superhumans
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...British journalist, "I don't believe in regretting my fate, but it is sometimes very hard. I have not seen my son and daughter for 17 years, and I have a grandson and granddaughter whom I have never seen." Svetlana's telling final cry: "Sometimes it's an almost superhuman effort not to drop everything and to run and get a ticket to go and see them. Sometimes I don't care what the regime is. I just want to see my grandchildren...
...absence of such a structure, the Chief Executive must exercise a lonely and nearly superhuman monitorship of the whole system-an undertaking that is beyond the limits of individual knowledge and energy. Vision without discipline is a daydream...
...Bedelia, as Shirley, gives an admirable performance, the lines do not give her a chance to express the complete range of her character. She is stifled by Friedman's stiff unemotional dialogue. Unlike Rocky, with whom the audience seemed to sweat and also cheer. Shirley is a cold, almost superhuman character who seems to know exactly what she wants and how to get there. We watch her plow her way through personal conflicts, the male dominated world of the race track, with a hard-nosed determination that asks for no compassion. Shirley always wins her races, and we always know...
...rule of thumb for second year students is that you spend 30 to 40 hours working at the Law Review; there's just no way you can do that and read all your cases and go to all your classes unless you're superhuman," says Jones...
...some 330 ft. from the building, damage would probably still have been severe. The report praised the military for providing medical care to trapped comrades with a speed that was "nothing short of heroic." It also had a consoling comment for Geraghty, saying that he had made a "virtually superhuman effort" to meet "monumental demands" after the blast even though "his situation was not enhanced by the large number of important visitors who arrived at his command in the days that followed." The visitors included Congressmen, White House representatives and military brass...