Sentences with phrase «which herculean»

In contrast to Greek painting and sculpture, in which Herculean sportsmen ran or threw javelins, Wheat rewrites art history — depicting female figures in their place, clad in leotards and legwarmers, bending or stretching for their toes.

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Short of reading the entire encyclopdia» a herculean task from which it seems even the editors have recoiled» choice, quality, and length can be judged only by sampling.

Elijah had to make a Herculean effort before he succeeded in forcing them to make a decision for which no one saw the need.»

, which is, like, a Herculean effort for me.

Herculean conservation efforts — carving out nature reserves, establishing captive breeding programs, pumping water into swamps in dry years — have done little to shore up the tortoise's future in the wild, which is why Mitchell and her colleagues have turned to assisted colonization.

«The ease with which this weight loss was achieved in mice — even with continued caloric binging — is in stark contrast to the Herculean difficulties morbidly obese patients experience trying to preserve weight loss through dietary restraint,» adds Dr. Gendler.

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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.

Extracting humour amid all the car bombs and arms deals would require Herculean levels of charm, which not even a particularly unbothered Murray summons.

That Indy hasn't lost a step is an increasingly prominent facet of Crystal Skull, typified by a sequence in which he leaps into a car full of Russian soldiers and easily cold - cocks them all, though this vision of herculean strength has far less impact than a preceding image of a more vulnerable Indy jumping from a speeding car onto the back of a motorcycle and almost disastrously missing the mark.

One of the biggest reasons to despair of the movie coming together is that series stars like Ian McShane, Timothy Olyphant, and John Hawkes have become bigger and much busier names in the years since, which makes lining up their schedules a Herculean task.

The film focuses on the Herculean efforts of pastor Jay Reinke, who has turned his church into a makeshift home base for the new arrivals — to the chagrin of the facility's neighbours, who are skeptical about the men's scruffy appearance and possible criminal backgrounds, and the open hostility of the town newspaper, which wages war on Reinke's new congregation by publishing a list of former sex offenders harboured in the church as well as in the pastor's own home.

And he answers, «certainly not because I have any direct self - interest — no... I'm not profiting from my involvement in charter schools (in fact, I shudder to think of how much it's cost me), and I have little personal experience with the public school system because I'm doubly lucky: my parents saw that I wasn't being challenged in public schools, sacrificed (they're teachers / education administrators), and my last year in public school was 6th grade; and now, with my own children, I'm one of the lucky few who can afford to buy my children's way out of the NYC public system [in] which, despite Mayor Bloomberg's and Chancellor Klein's herculean efforts, there are probably fewer than two dozen schools (out of nearly 1,500) to which I'd send my kids.»

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.

Earning the most basic rewards from these systems is quite easy, but maxing everything out is a Herculean grind the likes of which would make the most hardcore of old school MMO players shudder.

The point of his herculean endeavour is not just the sculpture that results but the reveal; the moment when the building crew returns on Monday morning to see their, supposedly familiar, environment transformed into something that defies explanation, and which in due course they will have to destroy in order to continue working.

It is an almost Herculean task, which the curatorial staff at the National Museum of Women in the Arts wisely tackle by limiting the focus of the exhibition to two key themes.

Maintaining the illusion the narrative relies upon ---- an ageless Bond, state - of - the - art weaponry, herculean vehicles and desirable women ---- requires constant replacements, and a contract exists between Bond and the viewer, which binds the narrative to that set of expectations.

If you want to see Cook's paper really sink (which I think would require herculean efforts given the political forces that want to keep it afloat), keep pushing though.

With all of the added stress of working in the digital age, the ubiquitous interruptions of social media, and the breakneck pace at which our lives are now lived, cultivating a good relationship with your spouse or loved one may seem like a herculean task.