He did it with Mission: Impossible III, which executed the impossible mission of making Tom Cruise seem like a down-to-earth guy.
Jobs is undeniably both brilliant and impossible, capable of making underlings believe he is either the devil or a hero.
My inability to finish anything, much less anything good, left me with a profound respect for this impossible mode of making a living.
For all the erudition and sensuous writing Aciman brings to his project, even he cannot master the impossible task of making us think so.
It also allows her to carry off the seemingly impossible feat of making us care passionately about a woman who has committed an unforgivable crime.
Whatever Thursday brings, I cannot help feel that the English and the Scottish will have a huge, some might say impossible, amount of making up with each other to do.
The acting is superb – Bill Murray manages to make someone bordering on predatory feel charming and hilarious and Dan Aykroyd manages the near impossible task of making puppy-dog enthusiasm funny.
By pulling off the seemingly impossible trick of making her cold, ruthless protagonist, currently bent on avenging the downfall of his former master, Cardinal Wolsey, an even more sympathetic character than he was in part one.
Instead, it took hip-hop, reggae and jazz and gently caressed them into the deep house mould, achieving the nigh-on impossible task of making 10-minute saxophone solos sound like fun.
