Sentence examples for limits of human endurance from inspiring English sources

The film's most powerful images are to put it mildly somewhat one-dimensional: they show a man enduring torture and abasement at the limits of human endurance, for a reason which a person unfamiliar with the story would find hard to discern.

It shows the limits of human endurance.

The air has tested the limits of human endurance.

It plumbs the depths of creativity while testing the limits of human endurance.

All climbing films deal with testing the limits of human endurance.

But even Trump will eventually hit the limits of human endurance.

Bees experience forces 30 times greater than gravity as they buzz for pollen — near the limit of human endurance.

Cook described himself and his companion, Edward Barrill, as "near the limit of human endurance" -- exhausted, freezing, gasping for oxygen -- when they reached the Alaskan summit at 20,320 feet above sea level.

"Most people think of the New York Marathon as the limit of human endurance, but to us that's a farce," said Emil Laharrague, a Frenchman who has lived in the Amazon jungle, among the aborigines of Papua New Guinea, carried his own supplies on a marathon through the Sahara Desert and holds his nation's record at 1,000 miles.

And, mildly related: I thought I too would push my body to the absolute limit of human endurance.

There is something so inspiring about the Olympics, where the greatest physical specimens in the world push themselves to the absolute limit of human endurance.