The first rabbit, running just outside the window, had wide-open eyes, as if the race against the train required a superhuman effort (or, rather, super-leporine, the lawyer thought).
Simply getting on to the stage of the Royal Albert Hall at the end of the performance required a superhuman effort as the combination of disease and emotion was almost overpowering.
With so much going on in the background, it would have required a superhuman effort of willpower to step on court against the world No1 with a clear head, and it is perhaps unsurprising that Murray seemed mentally flat for the opening half hour.
However reasonable the Simon Stevens five year plan for the NHS in England may be, delivering it will require a superhuman effort by staff, management and other departments as well as the politicians in power.
His eventual escape required a superhuman feat guaranteed to turn the strongest of stomachs.
But I know that, while my husband and I love Charlie and love taking care of him, doing so requires what a superhuman effort, whether to ride bikes for miles every day and in every season (Charlie craves physical activity and loves the independence riding a bike gives him) or helping him work through an hours-long bout of anxiety in which he says the same words over, over and over.
Getting any female character interested in Christmas hardly requires a superhuman act of screenwriting.
None of these practices will turn an average slob into a star; keeping at the top of a sport requires a superhuman work ethic, drugs or not.
Sometimes living and loving take a superhuman effort.
It will take a superhuman effort for Mr. Aristide, once affectionately called "Titid," to lead a peaceful Haiti.
As the world's only superpower, we need to make a superhuman effort to stem the terrible tide of AIDS.
