übermensch

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Though Snyder's credentials or Matthew Goode's accent as übermensch ex-hero Ozymandias provoked staggering amounts of Internet bitching, the casting of Haley generated nothing but fanboy praise, adulation and high hopes for the adaptation that many decried as impossible.

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  • I've heard from several ex-Softies that the company inculates its recruits with a serious dose of übermensch mentality: "those rumors about history and 'best practices' are for lesser beings who don't have the talent that we require of our programmers." —  Slashdot: IT
  • By revealing that Thompson's and Dynaman's identities have been usurped by impostors, Robinson shies away from demonstrating how an American superhero could morph into a neo-Nazi übermensch. —  Major Spoilers
  • Though Snyder's credentials or Matthew Goode's accent as übermensch ex-hero Ozymandias provoked staggering amounts of Internet bitching, the casting of Haley generated nothing but fanboy praise, adulation and high hopes for the adaptation that many decried as impossible. —  Metro Times
  • He dimly recalls Howard Roark, the übermensch in Ayn Rand's —  Alanat News
  • • It's the 1940s, and America's moral certainty is captured in its superheroes, a sort of democratic, traditionally-moralistic response to the amoral fascist ideal of the übermensch. —  Reason Magazine - Hit & Run
 

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