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Examples

  • Devin Overman from the Owl Post and Be Safe Bella wants to start a third band, called simply Book Rock.

    ‘Harry Potter’ And ‘Twilight’ Bands Pave Road For Future Movie-Inspired Rockers » MTV Movies Blog 2008

  • The idea there was that the Overman was a person who used his power without mercy or pity in order to rule over the herd of humanity.

    How to Make a Superman Movie 2009

  • The resistance to essentializing either humans or post-humans, what Nietzsche would call the Overman, lends itself to a less antagonistic social context.

    Brian.Carnell.Com Natasha Vita-More 2009

  • The resistance to essentializing either humans or post-humans, what Nietzsche would call the Overman, lends itself to a less antagonistic social context.

    Brian.Carnell.Com 2009

  • I met three friends one afternoon, who said they had been buying "Overman" stock at auction at eight dollars a foot.

    Roughing It, Part 5. Mark Twain 1872

  • I met three friends one afternoon, who said they had been buying "Overman" stock at auction at eight dollars a foot.

    Roughing It Mark Twain 1872

  • A few weeks afterward they sold all their "Overman" at six hundred dollars a foot and generously came around to tell me about it -- and also to urge me to accept of the next forty-five feet of it that people tried to force on me.

    Roughing It Mark Twain 1872

  • A few weeks afterward they sold all their "Overman" at six hundred dollars a foot and generously came around to tell me about it -- and also to urge me to accept of the next forty-five feet of it that people tried to force on me.

    Roughing It, Part 5. Mark Twain 1872

  • I met three friends one afternoon, who said they had been buying "Overman" stock at auction at eight dollars a foot.

    Roughing It 1871

  • A few weeks afterward they sold all their "Overman" at six hundred dollars a foot and generously came around to tell me about it -- and also to urge me to accept of the next forty-five feet of it that people tried to force on me.

    Roughing It 1871

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