apotheosis

• "This apotheosis is generally courtesy of the same people who ask, |What's your sign?'" —  Omni: April 1993
• We who live in this consecrated time keep the sacred souvenirs of Mr. Lincoln's death in our possession; and the best of these are the news letters descriptive of his apotheosis, and the fate of the conspirators who slew him. —  THE LIFE, CRIME, AND CAPTURE OF JOHN WILKES BOOTH
• While the principal concerns in the main text are political economic theory and everyday dispositions, this line subtly reminds us that Marx still has in his sights a critique of the Hegelian apotheosis, as well: Hegel's method is here subtly connected with a much more crass, practical process that displays the same qualitative characteristics. —  Roughtheory.org
• If you would see the American Left's apotheosis, regard the near vertical ascent, wreathed in light, of Barack H. Obama to hover over hordes of rapt worshipers eager to have their sins washed clean by his voice and visage. —  AMERICAN DIGEST
• In telling the story of Google's pursuit of its ambition to organize the world's information, I presented the gamut of perspectives, ranging from those who see Google's services as the apotheosis of information technology's world-changing potential to those who see the accretion of unregulated power that threatens to reach a scale never before witnessed. —  TPMCafe

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