apotheosize
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The hovering brush strokes and vertiginous layering of an emerald Laura Owens canvas apotheosize Photoshop techniques.
From New York Times ● Jul. 13, 2022
How did the unifying centrist apotheosize into the Notorious RBG, a revered icon of fiery dissent?
From Washington Post ● Nov. 8, 2018
Now, though, Lewis has taken on his most difficult challenge: He has chosen to apotheosize three obscure government agencies — the Department of Energy, the Department of Agriculture and the Department of Commerce.
From New York Times ● Oct. 8, 2018
To apotheosize the clichés of the genre while subverting them is a neat trick, but the cadre pulls it off.
From Time ● Apr. 16, 2010
The "Girl Graduate," with a pathos to which I am not insensible, entreats me not to apotheosize "that awful, befringed, beflounced, and bekilted divided skirt."
From Shorter Prose Pieces by Oscar Wilde
And, while very soon he would be dead, at this precise moment Elvis Presley was apotheosized.
From New York Times ● Jun. 23, 2022
The naturalness comes from the stars, and from the filmmaker’s disarming infatuation with the place apotheosized in song as the “City of Stars.”
From New York Times ● Dec. 8, 2016
In this, the Media Lab has apotheosized the capitalistic philosophy of its parent institution, which in the 20th century pioneered the now-common nexus between academic science and private industry.
From Slate
The movie's obvious forebear is The Godfather, which apotheosized the dirty dealings of statesmen and Mafiosi in the richly upholstered, 10-watt throne room of Hades.
From Time Magazine Archive
It certainly did not lie in the mouth of a people, who apotheosized force, to condemn them.
From William Lloyd Garrison The Abolitionist by Archibald Henry Grimké
Even the most lurid forms of behavior are accorded the same apotheosizing gloss.
From New York Times ● Feb. 23, 2018
And in what land has the apotheosizing imagination been more active than in Japan?
From Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic by Sidney Lewis Gulick
While posing as the apostle of light, you will obscure the scintillations of the stars because the sun is hid; while apotheosizing Happiness you would banish Hope, that mother of which it is born.
From Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 01 by William Cowper Brann
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