apotheosis

Which brings me to what I believe is the modern apotheosis of the genre.

The day before Germany’s 1937 “degenerate” art exhibit debuted, Hitler opened another art show, also in Munich — an apotheosis of Germanic taste, the “great German art exhibition.”

The ascendance of Donald Trump as the country’s first elected autocrat is the horrific apotheosis of television’s dominance over American politics and society.

In Donald J. Trump, the various species of ugly American have reached their conjoined apotheosis.

If that moment marked Trump’s nadir, today we are witnessing his apotheosis.