apotheosis

How To Use apotheosis In A Sentence

• Isn't there something revolting about catering to the imagined needs of a tiny group of spoiled ladies, a Marie Antoinette–ish situation that reached its apotheosis when John Galliano showed his infamous clochard collection—the word means bum or hobo in French, and the tattered gowns, hand-stenciled to look filthy, trailed pots, pans, and other refuse—at the 1997 Dior haute couture show? Art in the Parks 3: Nan Kempner's Clothing
• In the classic world, the word apotheosis was given to the ceremony that conferred the condition of gods upon a nation's heroes. August 2006
• Our classroom had a chart; on it an apricot glow marked the apotheosis of a vast flight of yellowed marble stairs.
• If density is the soul of the city, this is its spiritual or, better, commercial apotheosis.
• They remembered their Ruskinian youth, and the confidence with which they would once have condemned it; and they had a sense of recreance in now admiring it; but they certainly admired it, and it remained for them the supreme expression of that time-soul, mundane, courtly, aristocratic, flattering, which once influenced the art of the whole world, and which had here so curiously found its apotheosis in a city remote from its native place and under a rule sacerdotally vowed to austerity. Their Silver Wedding Journey — Volume 3
• The religious zealots see rai music as the apotheosis of a secular culture they consider lewd and impious.
• Most people agree that her acting career achieved its apotheosis in this film.
• They had their apotheosis in a moral resolution.
• Advance managing mode and professional technicians make the enterprise the apotheosis in the industry.
• This is the supreme apotheosis of the oxymoron.