Sentences with phrase «near herculean»

In fact, there's nothing «average» about Garland's near Herculean effort to adapt VanderMeer's novel, a novel many consider rightly unfilmable as written.

In fact, there's nothing «average» about Garland's near Herculean effort to...

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But Martin Geck, now nearing the end of his career at the University of Dortmund, doesn't seem intimidated by Herculean tasks.

So we had to do the work of building the cut to Quentin's specifications, which, in the time we had, was going to be a near - Herculean task unto itself, and then we had to get it down to a reasonable length.

And although the engine is strong and hushed even at speeds nearing its 6800 - rpm redline, the 750Li is most spectacular when flexing its muscles in the midrange, where two silent turbochargers endow the V - 8 with Herculean torque.

One of the main benefactors of this was Harmonix, which had the near - Herculean task of balancing negotiations with both game and music publishers to achieve an impressive library of Rock Band - enabled music.

For those following the men and their herculean task, she was impossible to notice until the men arrived near the front of the park and it became apparent another kind of «exercise» was unfolding.

That's going to require the kind of effort that should have started decades ago, and, at this late hour, a near - Herculean push for major reform.