Sentence examples for superman! from inspiring English sources

Sci-fi buffs will spot borrowings from "Flash Gordon", "Dune", "Star Wars", "Star Trek", "Alien", "Superman", "The Wizard Of Oz", "Barbarella" and Terry Gilliam's "Brazil", among others.

Mr Lévy is a quintessential French intellectual a "superman and a prophet", at least according to Vanity Fair magazine.

Commuters ignore him as they do another nearby bucket-shaker, an uncomfortable-looking Superman.

But his story is remarkable enough when confined to the history of religion.In this section Man and superman In pursuit of the old and pure Springing the traps A prisoner's tale The good German But love's a malady without a cure ReprintsOne of the appeals of this kind of long-view history is that patterns show up.

It was down to Paul Volcker to create the idea of central banker as superman; his success in breaking inflation in the early 1980s inspired other nations (starting with New Zealand) to go down the independent central banking route.

After Japan's initial military successes, previously contemptuous outsiders changed their minds: "From being a bandy kneed, myopic, oriental midget in Western eyes, the Japanese soldier was suddenly transformed into an invincible, courageous superman".

A string of roles followed at its Melbourne University and Russell Street venues in plays such as Man and Superman (1960), The Lady's Not for Burning (1961) and The Fantasticks (1962).

Aside from Batman v Superman, DC has scheduled dates for nine other releases up until 2020, including a reboot of Green Lantern, a character last played by Ryan Reynolds in a disappointing 2011 release.

Suffolk police have offered a temporary drug amnesty to anyone who surrenders the red or pink tablets of ecstasy, inscribed with a Superman-style "S" in their centre.

The American-led alliance won the cold war, a potentially even bloodier confrontation than the first world war's murderous clash of European nationalisms and the second world war's six-year struggle against would-be Superman Hitler and his friends.

One thing about Australia's recent Carlton Mid Series against the Proteas that struck me as being particularly inept was the perfunctory and unceremonious manner in which Steve Smith was acknowledged as player-of-the-series, receiving little more than a handshake before Mark Nicholas threw to the end credits and another post-cricket airing of Christopher Reeve-era Superman.