Meaning of Supermannish | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Resembling or characteristic of a Superman or specifically DC Comics’ Superman.
2. Resembling or characteristic of a superman.

Examples

“This verdict was, in untechnical language, an effective reproof for “Supermannish” methods of financiering.”

“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.”

“The two chief characters are rather “Supermannish,” and that demands super-actors; […]”

“Search where we will, we find nothing Supermannish in such victories.”

“Bugs, in Supermannish guise, goes forth to battle with a man who hates rabbits, and defeats him.”

“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.’”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“The few times Celeste was surprised by a fist or a glandular goon, her Supermannish strength came to her rescue.”

“Yet, as the book’s subtitle ‘Enigmas and Guesses’ suggests, Muir’s Supermannish determination is in part very clever bluster.”

““It was going to take a Superman-type effort for us to get a victory,” Miller said. “I was feeling Supermannish.””

“Before his turn, George lays aside his glasses with a vaguely Supermannish gesture of resolution and grit.”

“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.”

“There were seals on the rocks, and others on the beach, though their silly faces gave no evidence of the supermannish qualities attributed to them by Mr. E. V. Lucas.”

“It is very probable that Nietzsche frequently felt himself so supermannish as to regard the clouds of earth over which he had to step in order to keep his head in the clouds.”

“Her influence has been held supermannish—daimonic or demonic—under the prevalence of ideals monastic, chivalric, or platonic; […]”

“Her second lover is as disagreeable a cad as one is likely to meet, who exhibits a supermannish selfishness in his love that makes one wonder why he should have consented to a secret marriage.”

“Pulled by that “supermannish” strength the princess rises from bed and, in order to “celebrate” her husband’s death, offers herself naked at the window.”

“The real body can only ever be an imperfect, failed imitation of the higher supermannish archetype.”

“‘Der Sieger’ (The Victor) from 1927, used a large section of a bulky torso and a composite head, twisted to gaze into that middle distance familiar from propaganda imagery of supermannish strong heroes.”

“Though Engels and others saw in Carlyle a compelling arguer against social ills, his own ideology with its worship of supermannish heroes, ‘the select of the earth’, takes its bearings from a secularization of the Calvinist idea of the elect, and points towards both Nietzsche and fascism.”

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