(n. pl.) The act of elevating a mortal to the rank of, and placing him among, "the gods;" deification.
(n. pl.) Glorification; exaltation.
Example Sentences:
(1) The apotheosis of the cockamamie logic surrounding the sale, is the idea that some of the City institutions set to make a killing may own our pensions.
(2) It could not be any clearer that support for Mladic and his apotheosis in the media are an unfortunate endorsement of Dimitrijevic's assessment that survivors of the atrocities of the 1992-1995 war have no reason to think that Serbian culture has abandoned the ideology that ignited aggressions.
(3) The long pilgrimage of pregnancy with its wonders and abasements, the apotheosis of childbirth, the sacking and slow rebuilding of every last corner of my private world that motherhood has entailed – all unmentioned, wilfully or casually forgotten as time has passed.
(4) The Colbert Report is the apotheosis of civilisation and currently available for purchase.
(5) Much of our political discourse already feels a lot like the apotheosis of the algorithm – a self-contained formula designed to solve something.
(6) The apotheosis of this misunderstanding was the announcement by Amnesty International of Masha and Nadia's appearance in Barclays Center in New York as the first legal performance of Pussy Riot.
(7) Those arrived as the United opening onslaught reached its apotheosis.
(8) It's not an entirely coherent explanation, this, even from someone in the full throes of jet lag, and yet it sounds uncannily familiar: the rambling, over-articulating John Cusack of his early hit Say Anything , or his mid-career hit Being John Malkovich ; the John Cusack which reached its natural apotheosis as Rob Gordon, the bumbling boy-man of High Fidelity , the Nick Hornby adaptation which Cusack himself co-wrote and produced.
(9) America is the apotheosis of selfish capitalism, Denmark of the unselfish variety.
(10) It has been cast as representative of the rootlessness of New Labour and, by architecture critic Owen Hatherley , as the doomed apotheosis of the fossil-fuel society.
(11) He harps repeatedly on “liberal progressives” and goes back into the history books to castigate them, because otherwise the theory that Obama is not a Beltway centrist bummer and is instead the apotheosis of a “liberal progressive tradition” makes no sense.
(12) And it's the apotheosis of Judy Garland as the epitome of abused child star (MGM taped her nascent boobs down each morning, then pumped her full of amphetamines) and as gay icon (a Friend of Dorothy still means exactly what it meant half a century ago and more).
(13) Sebald allows this to lie beneath the text – a discoverable and psychic subtext; and just as he neglects to inform us of why Rousseau's paranoid and haunted final years should have had such a resonance for him, so this compulsively peripatetic and ambulatory writer also leaves off the list of distinguished writerly pilgrims to Rousseau's happy isle the greatest British walker-writer of them all, Worsdworth, who tramped all the way there in 1788, en route to his own liaison with revolutionary apotheosis.
(14) Trump’s presidential campaign was the apotheosis of anti-establishment animus.
(15) The word one wants would be more like apotheosis or elevation."
(16) Having leafed through the programme, the press releases, the adverts and the endless show titles punning on comedians’ names, I can only say I’m as excited as ever to get up there, clap eyes on new comic talent years in advance of its TV apotheosis, unearth a few unheard-of oddballs, and sit back and celebrate the latest offerings from the country’s hottest comedians.
(17) Ways of Seeing was Berger’s apotheosis as a populariser, but in this year too he won the Booker prize, the James Tait Black Memorial prize and the Guardian Fiction prize with his novel G. In 1967 he had published, with his frequent collaborator the photographer Jean Mohr, A Fortunate Man, a sensitive documentary account of a country doctor on his daily round in Gloucestershire.
(18) The process of lionizing Cushing by creating an overdrawn caricature reached its apotheosis in Time magazine in 1939.
(19) It has achieved its apotheosis in the grand years of New Labour's incursion into every crevice of our public services.
(20) The star of this absurdist evening in American politics, of course, was a reality-TV star representing the apotheosis of such a spectacle, only without substance or relation to fact.
Psyche
Definition:
(n.) A lovely maiden, daughter of a king and mistress of Eros, or Cupid. She is regarded as the personification of the soul.
(n.) The soul; the vital principle; the mind.
(n.) A cheval glass.
Example Sentences:
(1) Today the physician who treats women with emotional problems during menopause cannot function solely as a psychotherapist; he must deal with both their soma and psyche.
(2) The author believes that research on chemical sensitivity that blames the psyche of the victim rather than the chemical will more likely be funded by the insurance or chemical industry than will other research.
(3) He said: "We are hoping the bear and the hare will enter the public psyche a bit like the snowmen last year."
(4) Even the nightmares my psyche produces in response to the horrors of today can’t come close to what these people have lived.
(5) A s Michael Howard’s flag-waving, sabre-rattling, Madrid-baiting intervention made clear, Gibraltar can occupy an oddly atavistic place in some corners of Britain’s collective psyche.
(6) From Shakespeare to Hemingway, the Jew has been assigned a special place in the psyche of the authors here described, reflecting the ongoing cultural bias as it became internalized in the selves of the authors quoted.
(7) Much of the answer, I believe, lies in how Ireland's dramatic social and economic transformation over the last 20 years changed the broader national psyche.
(8) We strictly have to make a distinction between the somato-psychic and psycho-somatic approach: The influence of diabetes mellitus in development of personality means, that there is an influence of somatic factors on the psyche.
(9) "It's really difficult for one of them to justify going to Bear Stearns with an order when a lot of our employees' psyches are in other places."
(10) Prince is really tripping on the unreconstructed male psyche here, unless, that is, he's deconstructing it.
(11) Hayes said Card Factory had enjoyed an unbroken run of like-for-like sales growth since it was founded in 1997 with card buying part of the UK psyche and the average British adult buying 30 a year.
(12) Getting into the director's head and understanding their psyche is what's hard.
(13) Mugisha says evangelists have played on the psyche of many Ugandans.
(14) The group of thanatological problems comprises also the question what happens in the patient's psyche in the last stage of his life.
(15) Earlier this year we wrote about Gnod , Salford's finest purveyors of ambient sludge, prog-metal and murky motorik psych-drone space-rock.
(16) Jung is unique in recognising that the 'dissociability of the psyche' is a fundamental process that extends along the continuum from 'normal' mental functioning to 'abnormal' states.
(17) More attention should be paid to the manipulation of the psyche in the prevention and management of cancer.
(18) And that sense of irritation came out in subsequent polls suggesting Osborne hadn't quite got the hang of a national psyche for which the term bolshie often seems inadequate.
(19) In this contribution, I offer the idea that perhaps the most important subtext in the psyche of the psychotic is what has been called the black hole.
(20) Her greatest acclaim as a screenwriter has come recently, for Last Tango in Halifax and, even more strikingly, Happy Valley , but she has dipped her pen into most of the defining soaps and kitchen-sink dramas of the British psyche, from The Archers to Coronation Street .