apotheosis
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They called it the “Attitude Era,” and in retrospect it represented the absolute apotheosis of pre-millennium x-treme marketing.
From Slate ● Jun. 11, 2026
The use of the harp stood out, as did the harpsichord for Manon’s apotheosis as a courtesan in Act 3 and an organ for the church of St. Sulpice.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 17, 2026
Which brings me to what I believe is the modern apotheosis of the genre.
From Salon ● Jun. 18, 2025
In the Civil Rights Movement timeline, 1965 is often seen as the apotheosis, the crowning moment.
From Slate ● Oct. 31, 2023
He was no ordinary scholar, this man, but the apotheosis of scholars: the most famous personage in Zosma, save the queen and the hierarch, and the most popular, bar none.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
And the things it forgets, the apotheoses and apocalypses it lets sift through its mesh!
From The Guardian ● Oct. 15, 2016
They are their own apotheoses, their own parodies.
From Time Magazine Archive
Some have filled their skies with beings as little aerial as possible, or apotheoses of the Virgin and sundry saints.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 341, November 15, 1828 by Various
Eagle of the apotheoses, what breath of Erebus has driven thee to me? or, flying from the Campus Martius, dost thou bring to me the soul of the last of the Emperors?
From The Temptation of St. Antony or A Revelation of the Soul by Gustave Flaubert
Outraged public conscience extinguishes the fires of apotheoses such as these.
From Marie Antoinette and the Downfall of Royalty by Arthur Léon, baron Imbert de Saint-Amand
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