Supermannish

supermannish English Alternative forms en Superman-ish Etymology From en Superman ish. Adjective Resembling or characteristic of a Superman or specifically DC Comics’ Superman. en “Superman” in Business w:New-York Tribune LXVII 22,344 New York, N.Y. 19 January 1908 8 https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/88185728/ 2 This verdict was, in untechnical language, an effective reproof for “Supermannish” methods of financiering. en R[olfe] A[rnold] Scott-James Personality in Literature London Martin SeckerNumber Five John Street Adelphi 1913 The only important positive ideas for which he stands are the Supermannish idea of the duty of every man to be himself to the utmost, and a generous democratic idea of freedom, in accordance with which every self-respecting man and woman should be given the opportunity to work out his or her own destiny fully, unhampered by the tyrannies of caste, prestige, sentimental traditions, false codes, and effete moral obligations. en Les Deux Forces. A Play in Four Acts by P.-J. Jouve.(Editions de l’Effort Libre, Poitiers. 2 fr. 50.) The Academy and Literature LXXXV 2157 London Publishing Office,Rolls House, Breams Buildings, E.C 6 September 1913 301 https://archive.org/details/TheAcademy85/page/n324/mode/1up 2 The two chief characters are rather “Supermannish,” and that demands super-actors; en w:William Roscoe Thayer The Collapse of Superman Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y. Houghton Mifflin Company; Cambridge, Mass.: The Riverside Press 1918 21 https://archive.org/details/collapseofsuperm00thayiala/page/21/mode/1up Search where we will, we find nothing Supermannish in such victories. en The Exhibitor New York State Philadelphia, Pa. 21 April 1943 1252 https://archive.org/details/exhibitornov194229jaye/page/n1045/mode/1up 3 Bugs, in Supermannish guise, goes forth to battle with a man who hates rabbits, and defeats him. en Erick Berry [pen name; Evangel Allena Champlin Best] Forty-Seven Keys New York, N.Y. The Macmillan Company 1949 121 https://archive.org/details/fortysevenkeys0000unse/page/121/mode/1up Though I can see now that the hero of my first novel was too Supermannish, and just went from one success to another until I couldn’t think of any more ‘worlds for him to conquer.’ en Barn 'A Yank in Korea' Mediocre Programmer with Gimmick Film Bulletin 19 7 26 March 1951 10 https://archive.org/details/filmbulletin195119film/page/n177/mode/1up With actual clips of front line action interspersed periodically, the staged battle scenes seem even more contrived by comparison and some Supermannish feats unreeled by the Yank soldier-players only heighten the artificiality. en w:David Michael Petrou The Making of Superman: The Movie Warner Books 1978 35–36 https://archive.org/details/making-of-superman-the-movie/page/35/mode/2up 0-446-82565-4 Satisfied with him as an actor, Alex believed that with the right make-up, the blond, blue-eyed Redford would look “Supermannish” enough to carry the part off. en Gary Nuhn Bengals put Jets, ghosts of ’87 to rest w:Dayton Daily News 112 31 Dayton, Ohio 10 October 1988 1-B https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/407573943/ When he and his Cincinnati Bengal playmates were done with the AFC’s best defense, that of the New York-New Jersey Jets, he had done Supermannish damage — 30 carries, 139 yards and two TDs — as the Bengals won, 36-19. en w:William Strauss; w:Neil Howe Generations: The History of America’s Future, 1584 to 2069 New York, N.Y. William Morrow and Company, Inc. 1991 263 https://archive.org/details/generationshisto00stra_0/page/263/mode/1up 0-688-08133-9 Everything about the Superman story reads like a parable of G.I.s on the move—the special child, the corrupt older (Lost) Lex Luthor, the rocklike manliness and Formica-like blandness, the unvarying success of Supermannish strength used for community good. en Brian Dunning When will Major make his move? w:The Kansas City Star 6 October 1991 J-1 https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/682070788/ 2 The Gulf War, the plight of the Kurds, the weekend at Kennebunkport, the Group of Seven conference, the flight to Moscow when the barricades were still in place, the blunt talking to the old men of China on human rights, the veto on sending troops into the Balkan quagmire of Yugoslavia — all combine to provide an image of Major as a political Clark Kent encircling the globe with Supermannish energy. en w:Rachel Simon The Magic Touch Viking 1994 168 https://archive.org/details/magictouch0000simo/page/168/mode/1up 0-670-85262-7 The few times Celeste was surprised by a fist or a glandular goon, her Supermannish strength came to her rescue. en Robert Crawford MacDiarmid in Montrose Alex Davis; Lee M[argaret] Jenkins Locations of Literary Modernism: Region and Nation in British and American Modernist Poetry w:Cambridge University Press 2000 part one (Obstinate Isles: The Anglo-Celtic Archipelago) 36 https://archive.org/details/locationsofliter0000unse/page/36/mode/1up 0 521 78032 2 Yet, as the book’s subtitle ‘Enigmas and Guesses’ suggests, Muir’s Supermannish determination is in part very clever bluster. en Greg Beacham Miller sparks second-half rally Journal and Courier 82 121 Lafayette-West Lafayette, Ind. 30 April 2000 C1 https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/265243568/ “It was going to take a Superman-type effort for us to get a victory,” Miller said. “I was feeling Supermannish.” en w:David Lipsky Absolutely American: Four Years at West Point Houghton Mifflin Company 2003 254–255 1-58724-550-7 Before his turn, George lays aside his glasses with a vaguely Supermannish gesture of resolution and grit. en Sue Taylor Mark Newport: Superheroes In Action Cranbrook Art Museum 2009 17 https://archive.org/details/marknewportsuper0000newp/page/17/mode/1up 978-0-9668577-8-8 Edward Mehok offers a catalogue of prototypical Supermannish feats performed by Christian saints in “St. Clark of Krypton,” in Dooley and Engle, Superman at Fifty!, 123-29. 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