How To Use Apotheosize In A Sentence
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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
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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
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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
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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
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And then we digress .. onto his love of Proust -- brilliantly apotheosized; and his own conditioning in Existentialism ...
Christopher Lydon: Thank you, Norman Mailer
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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
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And there is no more jealous a god than the apotheosized Self.
Another Valient Defense of Science
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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.
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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
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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
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Whether they are to be apotheosized as ‘emerging democracies’ or demonized as ‘rogue states’ depends, in the final analysis, on where they fit in the unfolding strategic plans of world imperialism.’
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In all ages, in order to justify the passions, it was necessary to apotheosize them.
Ninon de L'Enclos the Celebrated Beauty of the 17th Century
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Instead of being apotheosized, it must be desecrated.
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It is the main-spring of many acts we loudly praise, the lode-star of men we apotheosize, is oftimes the warp and woof even of the mantle of charity, which, like a well-filled purse -- or a tariff compromise -- covers a multitude of sins.
The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 12
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After eight years of a presidency that valued cronyism over brains (or even competence) and embraced an anti-intellectualism apotheosized by Sarah Palin, it's a godsend to have a president who puts a premium on merit.
Steven G. Brant: Progressives Deserve to Be Worried About the Obama Administration
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Aesthetically, unselfconsciousness has often apotheosized eros - the effortless pubescent grace of the Athenian youth ignited the pederastic swoon of seemingly all Greek thought.
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But rather than apotheosize about some potential, let's talk about realities.
Press Briefing By Mack Mclarty And Richard Riley
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It is fitting that a playwright whose best works apotheosize the platitude compiled a book on the theater crammed with platitudes.
Ionesco: the Theater of the Banal
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Many of the martyrs whose memory we revere, of the saints we apotheosize, of the heroes we enshrine in history, are one-third fraud and two-thirds fake.
The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 12
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This florid and fulsome eulogy was written by that singular being who could thus flatter, and almost apotheosize, the inventor in public, while in secret he was doing everything to thwart him, and who never, as long as he lived, ceased to antagonize him, and later accused him of having claimed the credit of an invention all the essentials of which were invented by others.
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But given that most Roman emperors expected to be apotheosized after death, at least his choice of signature had some logic behind it.
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This was rather a rash venture in prognostication, for it may be easy enough to "apotheosize" the horse, but to what idyllic heights the automobile is destined to ultimately reach no one really knows.
The Automobilist Abroad
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The completion of these labors guaranteed his immortality; he was apotheosized at the time of his death and is the only mortal to be honored in this fashion.
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It is really a sort of sublimated and apotheosized "argot," an "argot" of a kind of platonic archetypal drawing-room; such a drawing-room as has never existed perhaps, but to which all drawing-rooms or salons, if you will, of elegant conversation, perpetually approximate.
Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations
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But his ingenuous one-world sentiments are apotheosized into truth by the strength of his melodic gifts (which haven't failed him yet) and a voice that's still sweet and grainy when it needs to be.
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The ancient Greeks, Chinese, Hindus and many other cultures and civilizations all had their initiates who were highly developed mentally, morally, and spiritually – these men and women were well beyond their time and the lay people viewed them as demi-gods and apotheosized them.
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On the one hand, the dead men are apotheosized and made into martyrs for a great cause, as part of an ongoing effort to whip up enthusiasm for the war within the public.
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Though V.F. elevated all of its elect to the same celestial plane, once apotheosized, nobody was sacred.
Vanity Fair: The Early Years, 1914-1936
