How To Use Godlike In A Sentence

And these advocates, incapacitated by miscalled seminaries for alluseful endeavor, become defenders of the faith and prosecutors of all and each and any who fix their hearts on such simple and Godlike things as friendship and equality. Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Reformers
They were godlike in their wisdom and compassion.
And technology is most celebrated when it is most invisible—when the machinery is completely hidden, combining godlike effortlessness with blissful ignorance about the mechanisms that deliver our disburdened lives. The Secular Prophet
The godlike part of the cod, which, like the human head, is curiously and wonderfully made, forsooth has but little less brain in it, -- coming to such an end! to be craunched by cows! Cape Cod
Machinery is killing more and more of what we call the godlike in us. The Great Hunger

Originally, all of these acts were a form of spirituality—of godlikeness. God is Not a Christian, Nor a Jew, Muslim, Hindu …
While in Plato there is the foreshadowing of the truth that the goal of moral endeavour lies in godlikeness, with Aristotle the goal is confined to this life and is conceived simply as the earthly well-being of the moral subject. Christianity and Ethics A Handbook of Christian Ethics
She sometimes fantasized about getting him to make love to her, but Galatea never really liked her godlike creator, Pygmalion.
There is a tendency within the medical profession and among patients to view consultants as almost godlike figures.
Therefore, first let each become godlike and each beautiful who cares to see God and Beauty.
Through such resurrective ideology and its rhetoric of evil, Americans could evade the excruciating vulnerability that had been exposed by the attack and once again feel great, powerful, and godlike. Robert D. Stolorow: The Meaning and the Rhetoric of Evil: Auschwitz and Bin Laden
The lower, yet still an estimable class, take up with worn-out Symbols of the Godlike; keep trimming and trucking between these and Hypocrisy, purblindly enough, miserably enough. Paras. 40-58
Plato and the Stoics introduce divination as a godlike enthusiasm, the soul itself being of a divine constitution, and this prophetic faculty being inspiration, or an illapse of the divine knowledge into man; and so likewise they account for interpretation by dreams. Essays and Miscellanies
It was hospitable to the idea of the leader whose godlike vision is authoritative and unchallengeable.
If we set out with that high ideal which would seem to be demanded as a characteristic of a great religious teacher, and certainly of one claiming to be a prophet of God, we ought to expect that his character would steadily improve in all purity, humanity, truthfulness, charity, and godlikeness. Oriental Religions and Christianity A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1891
Whether justly or unjustly acquired, various forms of wealth can become our master, shaping and filling our lives in a godlike manner.
man must play God for he has acquired certain godlike powers
The union of heaven and earth described there produces a mighty all-conquering insolent race of godlike people.
Characters who do achieve godlike powers are subjected to ruthless scrutiny.
One becomes convinced that he never suffered any morbid, soul-shaking experience such as besetting religious doubt brings with it, or the pangs of despised love; that on the contrary he moved among men and women with a serene and godlike tread, neither self-indulgent nor ascetic, with mind and senses ever alert to every form of beauty. Translations of Shakuntala and Other Works
For the coexistence of absolute spontaneity with absolute necessity is involved in the very idea of God, one of whose intellectual definitions is, the 'synthesis, generative ad extra, et annihilative, etsi inclusive, quoad se,' of all conceivable 'antitheses;' even as the best moral definition -- (and, O! how much more godlike to us in this state of antithetic intellect is the moral beyond the intellectual!) -- is, God is love. The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Valentine calls a godlike angel, and of whom the rabbis said, "His name is like unto the name of his Master. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 03
What is innate and unfolds from inside of us is pushed onto some great godlike figure of the past whose legacy is tightly held in the keep of the institution and its hierarchy in the form of a creed or orthodoxy that is sacrosanct.
Your people and you attribute mystical and even godlike qualities to a beast?
But if any one going, would call godlike Ajax, and king Idomeneus; for their ships are the farthest off, [343] and by no means near at hand. The Iliad of Homer (1873)
One who supposed that he could attain that godlike perspective on the meaning of his life might perhaps be in a position to know what experiences were so painful that they were better obliterated from memory.
A very useful and very remarkable kind of prophecy indeed, this inductive prophecy appears to be; and the question arises, whether _a kind_, endowed of God with a faculty of seeing, which commands the future in so inclusive a manner, and with so near and sufficient an aim for the most important practical purposes, ought to be besieging Heaven for a _super_natural gift, and questioning the ancient seers for some vague shadows of the coming event, instead of putting this immediate endowment -- this 'godlike' endowment -- under culture. The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded
There is no 'godlikeness' without such bestowal, such 'imagining' into life. Clark Lectures, Trinity College, Cambridge Grace, Necessity and Imagination: Catholic Philosophy and the Twentieth Century Artist Lecture 4: God and the Artist
As regarded the ungodlike man himself, this could make no difference. The Last Chronicle of Barset
Postwar rituals created an ‘immortal Confederacy’ with soldiers as heroic martyrs, Lee as a godlike figure, and ‘Dixie’ as a regional hymn.
His energy and talent elevate him to godlike status.
Certainly sometimes sporting figures are perhaps in the excitement of the moment, endowed with almost godlike qualities.
The wonder is how so many are still complacent about the godlike powers assumed by mere mortals, who have so far demonstrated not the least bit of trustworthiness or honesty concerning the potential of such weapons.
Leonardo's famous passage on the godlike power of the artist is cited at this point, but this passage has nothing to do with style and decorum.
Why, even poor little ungodlike man holds himself responsible for the welfare of his child to the extent of his ability. Mark Twain: A Biography
If you really believe that the universe is infinite than you must also accept that godlike things will exist.
You may eat of the fruit of Godlikeness, but as to the fruit of ungodliness, which is opposed to Truth, -- ye shall not touch it, lest ye die. Unity of Good
The splendour and brilliance of man is often encompassed in art, but doesn't this very same art have a godlike quality to it, that most average humans cant even dream of reaching.
His godlike perspective, for one, castigates all humanity, and pities it too. Times, Sunday Times
And yet he's being honored, like some godlike figure.
Although most people would use this evil to enslave their enemies, bestow upon them unlimited wealth, or give them godlike powers, I prefer using it to make the water in my toilet rotate slightly faster.
Untamed Thought, great, giantlike, enormous; -- to be tamed in due time into the compact greatness, not giant-like, but godlike and stronger than gianthood, of the Shakspeares, the Goethes! Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History
He says he's a man of god, but police say the acts he committed were ungodlike, to say the least. CNN Transcript Aug 29, 2006
A ‘star system’ was born, in which film stars, sports heroes, politicians, and other public figures achieved a godlike status in the public consciousness.
In the sense of being the victim of the ungodlike forces in human life, Jesus bore sin in His own body on the tree. Some Christian Convictions A Practical Restatement in Terms of Present-Day Thinking
Ran means chaos and the form of the film becomes more chaotic as it goes, starting in a very stately style that falls apart as the king undergoes his metamorphosis from godlike being to spiritual leper.
Perhaps, too, the rich blood of the Falernian grape produced a more godlike delirium than the vulgar brandy which oversets the moderns! Views a-foot
And godlike Telemachus was far the first to descry her, for he was sitting with a heavy heart among the wooers dreaming on his good father, if haply he might come somewhence, and make a scattering of the wooers there throughout the palace, and himself get honour and bear rule among his own possessions. Book I
He must have been granted the supernatural powers of godlike perception when he fell into that tub of ‘chemicals’ at the juvenile diabetes research headquarters!
“He desired godlikeness,” Aquinas writes, “in this sense, that he placed his ultimate bliss in an objective to be obtained by the force of his own nature alone, rejecting supernatural bliss, which depends on the grace of God.” The Angels and Us
Justin opened the pickle bottle and did other prosaic and ungodlike acts, and Bettina laid the table on the sands like a real girl instead of a transported nymph, yet each saw the other through a golden haze which magnified the most trivial act and made it important. Glory of Youth
I dare assert that for a finite speck of pulsating jelly to feel godlike is a far more glorious feeling than for a god to feel godlike. The Voyage of the "Snark"
It also gives the audience the godlike power of spotting future theatre talent, of which there seems to be a lot about.
The asking of it diminished somewhat from that ducal, grand-ducal, quasi-archducal, almost Godlike superiority which he had assumed, and showed the curiosity of a mere man. The Duke's Children
This is quite deliberate: all the ‘action’ occurs on the level of the City's various gods and godlike figures, and the humans are pretty much their puppets.
But he was not a godlike figure; instead he put people at their ease.
All this to keep us with the hope that someday we might find what it means to truly be spiritual and godlike.
Moreover, this is a new status for us since we are not the godlike creators of our biological children.
There were no radical transformations that required the privilege of godlike powers to transform an earlier ape into a man - just time and chemistry.
Though she has for years coped grimly with her own suffering, she cannot bear her son's; godlike, she sacrifices him in a baptism of fire.
Natural history must indeed be a godlike pursuit, if such a man as this can so adore it, people said; and the very definition and meaning of the word naturalist underwent a favorable alteration in the common mind. Memories and Studies
They are far from being Descartian soulless machines, though they have not been imbued with the sacred, godlike character which they have attained in Hinduism.
I hesitate to use the word 'godlike,' because it's a little strong, but he really is a mythical figure around here," said Ben Jones, a Penn State student who covers the football team for the blog BlackShoeDiaries.com. The Washington Post: National, World & D.C. Area News and Headlines - The Washington Post
To her he was godlike, noble, excellent, all but holy.
He was good at his job, he tells us, and relished the godlike power he felt when he saved someone's life.
Many of Kevin Pollard's costumes were unflattering: Ms. DiDonato spent most of the show slouching around in what looked like a muumuu and dreadlocks, Ms. de Niese's androgynous brown getup made nothing of her beauty, and Plácido Domingo Neptune was overpowered by hair and clothing that made him look silly rather than godlike. Promoting the Baroque In an ADHD World
Religious, spiritual or mystic traditions often start and propagate from a focal point - a human godlike figure or a god human-like figure or a text developed by/on one of these.
The godlike Xenocrates showed this by the firmness of his reason, who was declared by the famous hetaera Phryne to be a statue and not a man, when all her blandishments could not shake his resolve, as Valerius Maximus relates at length. The Love of Books : The Philobiblon of Richard de Bury
At one point we even read, believingly, that Serge feels "an almost sacred tingling, as though he himself had become godlike, elevated by machinery and signal code to a higher post within the overall structure of things. The Fear of a Failure to Communicate
He will chatter about things refined and spiritual and godlike like himself, and he and the men who herd with him will calmly adulterate the commodities they put upon the market and which annually kill tens of thousands of babies and young children. The Somnambulists
Most dramatic of all are the tall, enigmatically smiling kouros, which are archaic statues of godlike young men.
The blond-haired, almost godlike figure, meanwhile, stood motionless, impassive and unwinded, like a great tiger poised to pounce.
From this godlike perspective there was no sign of the war. Anti-Ice
I dare to assert that for a finite speck of pulsating jelly to feel godlike is a far more glorious feeling than for a god to feel godlike. Chapter 1 -- Foreword
Twisting convulsively, it rolled down into the road under our horses 'feet, -- and there this human form, which some call godlike, writhed and floundered like a severed worm, and disguised itself in blood and dust. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 27, January, 1860
His energy and talent elevate him to godlike status.
I had witnessed an act of magnanimity it would not be impious to call godlike; I felt a need to know the outcome. The Mask of Apollo
Bodhisattvas are portrayed as both benevolent godlike figures and wrathful deities.
Here, in his workshop, he wielded godlike power.
And technology is most celebrated when it is most invisible—when the machinery is completely hidden, combining godlike effortlessness with blissful ignorance about the mechanisms that deliver our disburdened lives. The Secular Prophet
They love me as I love them, because I am young and of a godlike beauty.
I had encountered no evil creatures with godlike powers before, so I reasoned that this was not caused by me.
When last she had seen him he had been as it were a god to her; and though, since that day, his conduct to her had been as ungodlike as it well might be, still the memory of the outward signs of his divinity had remained with her. The Last Chronicle of Barset
Why would Thomas transcend to a godlike state if he detests almighty power?
She faced the Greek god who, in a somewhat ungodlike way, was stitching a coat on a scaley sewing-machine, in a room of smutted plaster walls. Main Street
My eyes shut and momentarily wished that the godlike rockstar I worship so much is really also just a man, a happy one.
Look for godlike beauties scattered casually in the background.
Love them already, recognize their godlike nature beforehand.
The devil was using the thorn to try to pull Paul down, and at the same time Almighty God was using the self-same ‘thorn’ to make Paul more usable and godlike.
He said that a man could rise from his beastly nature, which he was born with and which he was basically, and fulfill, through exercising his mental power, his potential for omnipotent wisdom, or godlikeness. Manchild in the Promised Land
Why would Thomas transcend to a godlike state if he detests almighty power?
My own conviction is, that if a man would but bend his energies to live, if he would but try to be a true, that is, a godlike man, in all his dealings with his fellows, Malcolm
The little cares rasp and fret and sting the manliness and the womanliness and the godlikeness out of us. The Threshold Grace
I only long that we as individuals and as Calvinistic Baptists be Godlike in our response to this calamity.
When she opened the door she saw him as something fixed and Godlike as he had always been, as older people are to younger, rigid and unmalleable. Tender is the Night
I have touched them with my grace, let them share in the mystery of my godlike powers.
I don't think writers should be this godlike figure who reads from a podium and signs books while their fans quake before their greatness.
The ponderous blurry appeal of the picture may be that it takes its stoned audience out of this world to a consoling vision of a graceful world of space, controlled by godlike minds where the hero is reborn as an angelic baby…
His energy and talent elevate him to godlike status.
a man of godlike sagacity
They press on to be as godlike in behaviour and conduct as they can.
The ashes of Tullia rested in the family tomb, but the godlike thing imprisoned in her mortal body was to be honoured at this _fanum_, which, strange as it may seem to us, her father wished to erect in a public and frequented place. The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus
That would have been sufficient to ensure for him at least a significant status in nationalist martyrology, but hardly the ‘godlike’ status of legend.
Instead, Kyle should simply retain his infallible godlike powers forever, enshrined in comics history as the most powerful (and, therefore, best) superhero of all time.
This aspect of godliness retained by the sons of Adam inspired such awe among the rest of mankind that no one dared to oppose these godlike beings, and consequently these people did as they liked until they were destroyed by the Flood.
The disease is cured for the Christian Scientist by the belief in God because a true belief in God includes the insight that God is all reality and that reality therefore cannot include the ungodlike, that is, error and sin and disease. Psychotherapy
In this sense, the caricaturist is the least godlike, most secondhand of all artists. Kalooki Nights
For the names I see written above me to-day on the immemorial canopy of heaven begin with that of the spotless knight, the unsceptred and uncrowned king, the godlike and immaculate "-- (here he turned suddenly, ran to the front of the stage, and, with outstretched fist shaking violently over our heads, thundered at the full power of his lungs):" GEORGE WASHINGTON! In the Arena Stories of Political Life
As she approached this light, she saw in her path a great godlike figure lit from behind - a being of light.

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