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“It’s really important for students to not deify one historical person, one figure, but to understand the motivation and the movement,” Young said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 23, 2026

“We want to vilify people for transgressions and we deify sports heroes,” Abrams said.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 12, 2022

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

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

Anyone else get the reference of Wags' comment abou moving Taylor "closer to the bima"? Obviously, he deifies Axe.

From New York Times ● Apr. 23, 2017

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

There was even a time when even George W. Bush was practically deified.

From Salon ● Aug. 26, 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

"The child would become deified and worshipped for generations as the villagers' intermediary with the gods".

From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2023

In the public sphere, the imperial cult that worshipped deified emperors was a representation of the power of the imperial throne.

From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023

By 1608 it was possible to complain that ‘nowadays the discoverers of new things are virtually deified’.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

It is certainly true that at some point we, as a culture, must stop deifying people whose work, message or backstory we admire.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2023

The journalists warning of the dangers of deifying Conway have most often aimed that message at adults.

From Slate ● Oct. 19, 2020

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

From Washington Times ● Jul. 9, 2020

“No one would ever confuse me with a saint,” Rick Ledbetter admits after deifying his younger brother, Tommy.

From New York Times ● Dec. 21, 2017

A phrase like that of Clement of Alexandria, "deifying into apathy we become monadic," is seas away from anything we find in the speech of Jesus.

From The Jesus of History by T. R. Glover