quasi-divine

If GOPers weren't running around pretending to be quasi-divine all the time, none of this would play a role in the business of running our country and could be left for people to deal with in their private lives.

Sanford's wife: He's earned a second chance 2009

Thus began a process designed to transfigure the past sages of Israel into heroes of quasi-divine dimensions.

David Shasha: Two Models of Jewish Tradition: Vertical-Hierarchical and Horizontal Pluralist 2010

Thus began a process designed to transfigure the past sages of Israel into heroes of quasi-divine dimensions.

David Shasha: Two Models of Jewish Tradition: Vertical-Hierarchical and Horizontal Pluralist 2010

To give just one more example, he lauds the lifting of capital controls in the 1970s and 1980s in developing countries as a quasi-divine act of wisdom, providing a "celestial mechanism for discipline".

Johann Hari: The Soft-Voiced Authoritarianism of Fareed Zakaria 2009

Some of it * is* iconoclastic in that monotheistic way, but there's an element of polytheism perhaps in the multiplicity of quasi-divine powers.

THE HALLS OF PENTHEUS -- PART FIVE Hal Duncan 2007

Some of it * is* iconoclastic in that monotheistic way, but there's an element of polytheism perhaps in the multiplicity of quasi-divine powers.

Archive 2007-04-01 Hal Duncan 2007

Of these, one encounters, in the first place, libertarians, or near libertarians, those who attribute to the free market some quasi-divine ability to sort out the rights and wrongs of human behavior and who oppose any, or almost any, interference with its workings.

Is Economic Justice Possible in this World? 2008

The United States may seem inevitable today -- a quasi-divine inspiration, schoolchildren were long told -- but its genesis was painful and harrowing, and the nation was very nearly stillborn.

Founders Chic: Live From Philadelphia 2007

That they might, just might, be little more than pathological predators in $500 shoes, not archangels in some quasi-divine meritocracy.

Can conservatives and libertarians be feminists? 2005

Dominants are suave very often, or are not absolute gods, and the way attention was led away from this subject is an interesting study in quasi-divine bamboozlement.

The Book of the Damned Charles Fort