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  • noun Plural form of godhead.

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  • The climax was unquestionably the extended, swirling shoegaze jam “Nothing Ever Happened,” which cast the band as a worthy disciple of wall-of-noise godheads My Bloody Valentine.

    In concert: Deerhunter at 9:30 Club David Malitz 2010

  • His fictional doppelgänger's artistic integrity sets him hopelessly at odds with "the Western system of production"—meaning modern society's primitive godheads of sex and capitalism.

    Reflections on Self-Regard Sam Sacks 2012

  • Noveller is guitarist Sarah Lipstate, and she can do shimmering and spectral as well as harsh and noisy. unFact is David Wm. Sims of sludge-rock godheads Jesus Lizard, turning the volume down for this solo project.

    Nightlife Agenda 2010

  • | Reply | Permalink athiests, agnostics, and other non-religious people ... i guess we are going to have to go to war with the godheads. oh, wait, crap, we can't. we don't believe in killing people for their different beliefs. i guess we'll just have to turn the other cheek. hmmm, that sounds familiar. who said that? does anybody follow that guy anymore? no?

    Romney Spokesman Won't Say If Atheists Have Place In America 2009

  • And even though this religion or that one have formalized the conceptions into dogma, most of the individual believers still harbor their own ideas just like they harbor their own relationships with the godheads of note.

    Backing Into an Evidentiary Standard for ID 2007

  • Even though I personally suspect keiths will fall to the boring old resurrectionist soul, long before he gets to actual godheads.

    Backing Into an Evidentiary Standard for ID 2007

  • For it is an admission by Mr. Zuma himself that South Africa's leaders are no longer the liberating godheads in the mold of Nelson Mandela.

    Judging Zuma Mark Gevisser 2009

  • No, Bush and Cheney are truly omnipotent godheads in their own minds and don't need to defer to the will of their people.

    The Cuban missile crisis was dramatic ---- The Iran EFP scare is pathetic 2007

  • It is only when the spiritual revolution resulting in the cracking of the human ego comes about that the godheads of the soul - justice, liberty, equality, brotherhood — will be realised on a permanent basis in a "Kingdom of Heaven" as was dreamtof by Christianity and the Hinduism of old.

    Sri Aurobindo synthesises East and West Tusar N Mohapatra 2006

  • Lend to each man enough, that one need not lend to another; for, were your godheads to borrow of men, men would forsake the gods.

    The Life of Timon of Athens 2004

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