deify

We build monuments and deify leaders in an effort to transcend our mortality.

From Scientific American ● Feb. 28, 2022

It’s a fascinating exploration of the paradoxes of humanity’s religious instincts — and the power of followers to deify flawed mortals against their will.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 28, 2022

American society tends to deify businesses and and athletes, he said.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 27, 2021

Why can’t Americans come to terms with our racist past without feeling compelled to demonize those we used to deify?

From New York Times ● Jun. 27, 2020

Man’s subliminal urge to destroy what he could neither subdue nor deify.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy

While Butler humanizes Elvis, Luhrmann deifies him and argues that he possessed far more radical potential, both musically and politically, than he was allowed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2022

Gebru said the way the tech industry is covered by the media, which to her deifies tech leaders, helps shield tech companies from scrutiny.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 15, 2021

“Some men she extols, exalts, and almost deifies; others, whose virtues are far greater, and whose characters are more deserving of commendation, she passes by unheeded, and puts the finger of silence on her lips.”

From Washington Times ● Sep. 16, 2020

Empathy is completely absent in a culture that deifies the material successes of the individual.

From Salon ● Oct. 25, 2015

Thus it is true that love deifies the mortal clay, and draws down upon earth what is heavenly.

From Tales from the German Comprising specimens from the most celebrated authors by Various

It’s a Taoist temple where people come to worship Guan Di, a deified Chinese general revered as the god of commerce and war.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026

Ronald Reagan, who was once deified by American conservatives, saw his approval ratings plummet from 63% to 47% in December 1986 following news of the Iran-Contra scandal.

From Salon ● Jul. 24, 2025

The themes of performances at Mr Gopalakrishnan's house include honouring a deified ancestor, venerating a warrior-hunter deity, and worshipping tiger spirits symbolising strength and protection.

From BBC ● Nov. 30, 2024

But rather than commune with Marika, his deified mother, Miquella wants to escape the strictures and expectations of her Golden Order.

From New York Times ● Jun. 18, 2024

Quirinus was the name of the deified Romulus, the founder of Rome.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

The deifying worked well enough when Stoops, a self-described “program guy,” ruled Norman.

From New York Times ● Nov. 29, 2021

“They are not perfect. They are not perfect. We have to stop deifying them,” Mr. Lemon said.

From Washington Times ● Jul. 9, 2020

It acts as a deifying diptych to that of The Epic – from space to the earthly pursuit of heaven.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 21, 2019

One is a pitch-dark, but also visually cute, animated series that has perfected, by not deifying or lauding, the antihero, who this season was even more explicitly shown to be a #MeToo creep.

From Slate ● Dec. 15, 2018

Subsequently the emperors assumed it during their own lifetimes, thus deifying themselves.

From The Hindu-Arabic Numerals by Louis Charles Karpinski