How To Use apotheosize In A Sentence
- The old author dreamed that the heroes of the Trojan War were changed by Zeus into the warriors of the mimic strife in order that such renowned exploits should be perpetuated among men forever: rather must we reverse the dream, and apotheosize the powers of the board, that they may appear in the sieges, heroisms, and victories of life. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 32, June, 1860
- They are but the nerves and muscles, the sinews and the blood of the being we apotheosize -- the mere aids of the mighty brain, the seat of the controlling spirit of the whole. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851
- The legendary Earp, embodied by the serenely laconic Henry Fonda, was apotheosized in John Ford's spare and beautiful "My Darling Clementine" (1946), a movie blissfully unconcerned with the facts. Kevin Costner Rides Again
- The same Milos Forman who felt the brunt of Czechoslovakia's Communist censors was destined to apotheosize Mr. Flynt's contributions to the bizarre saga of American liberty. It's 'Libertine' Jesse Ventura Vs. the G.O.P. Culture Jihad
- And then we digress .. onto his love of Proust -- brilliantly apotheosized; and his own conditioning in Existentialism ... Christopher Lydon: Thank you, Norman Mailer
- It's always fascinating to return to something that everyone claims to cherish and feigns familiarity with, but that is simultaneously so apotheosized and abstracted as to become cold and inanimate. Adam Hanft: A Geek's Fourth of July: Reading the Declaration of Independence
- And there is no more jealous a god than the apotheosized Self. Another Valient Defense of Science
- While in the gay male culture, youth and beauty are apotheosized (granted, to an extreme), in the ‘lesbian community’ they are often resented and denigrated.
- You must have glided like a breeze about me — seen into a heart not worthy of scrutiny, jotted down words that cannot justify attention — before you could have apotheosized the song in so exquisite a manner. The Hand of Ethelberta
- But with a rekindled sense of religious identity, Soviet Jews pressed the fight for freedom, their struggles apotheosized by the nine-year imprisonment of activist Natan Sharansky, who was finally released and permitted to emigrate in 1986. Lost in Transit