apotheosis

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The Portuguese design genius for mixing the pious with playfully overelaborated touches reaches its apotheosis at this Unesco World Heritage site—Portugal’s equivalent of France’s monumental Cathedral of Chartres.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

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

From Salon • Jun. 18, 2025

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.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 7, 2025

In the Civil Rights Movement timeline, 1965 is often seen as the apotheosis, the crowning moment.

From Slate • Oct. 31, 2023

Once the apotheosis of suburban constancy, Levittown is now an example of those same suburbs coming apart at the seams.

From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove