apotheosis
Example Sentences
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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.
But she later enjoyed an apotheosis as the matriarch of the largest empire the world had ever seen.
Which brings me to what I believe is the modern apotheosis of the genre.
From Salon
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
Scripture does not record the birth date of Jesus Christ, and so early Christian scholars spent centuries wrangling over when to celebrate this most important apotheosis.
From Salon
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