(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.
Renunciation
Definition:
(n.) The act of renouncing.
(n.) Formal declination to take out letters of administration, or to assume an office, privilege, or right.
Example Sentences:
(1) • Written, oral and video statements of self-incrimination and self-renunciation by the detainees, apparently induced by the authorities, have been released through official media channels (for example, lawyer Zhang Kai was induced to make such a statement, which he later retracted).
(2) Nick Lowles, director of Hope Not Hate, which campaigns against extremism, said: "We celebrate Quilliam's efforts here but only a complete renunciation of the violence and hatred the EDL leaders have promoted, and a turning away from the anti-Muslim rhetoric they have championed, will be enough for the many thousands who have suffered from the EDL's ugly actions over the past three years."
(3) The systemic elaboration of anterior phases (individuation, couple) allows an integration of the new role and renunciation of the symptom.
(4) 7 StGB and a reduction respectively a renunciation of minimal period of revocation should give possibility to courts and reprieval authorities to ensure the inclusion of a large number of persons suitable for additional training and in cases of total abstinence traffic authority should regard the aptitude for participation in traffic as regranted.
(5) But Mazowiecki’s renunciation stabilised the eastern frontiers of the European Union.
(6) But it is no use the Guardian preaching renunciation.
(7) It is possible to renounce any information but renunciation of information assumes a basic knowledge of both possible kinds of treatment.
(8) That will require the formal and public renunciation of many of the policies on which the leadership election was won and the construction of a viable economic policy – a wholly legitimate process in a party which prides itself on being a broad church.
(9) From the giving up of smoking on the eve of his wedding, via the renunciation of his nominal religion and dropping of his name, to the abandonment of his career, Philip has proved himself the consummate royal wife.
(10) The further development, however, showed that the responsible and successful surgery in a special field-in the case of Kehr the surgery of the bile ducts-could only be performed with a far-reaching renunciation of other surgical activities.
(11) The renunciation of a sealer is the advantages of the procedure.
(12) "Essentially, it has to do with the renunciation of citizenship.
(13) What are probably his two best-known pieces of writing, his 1940 novel Darkness at Noon and his contribution to Richard Crossman's 1949 essay collection, The God That Failed , were both inspired by his painful renunciation of communism.
(14) In-depth interviews and participant observation was conducted with 14 Hindu religious renunciates, 70 years or older.
(15) The remedicalization of psychiatry does not mean the return to a reductionistic biomedical model of psychiatry or the renunciation of psychotherapy and psychodynamics.
(16) We cannot meet the secretary of state's public renunciation of violence, but it would be given privately as long as we were sure that we were not being tricked."
(17) Unprepared learning, which is often accompanied by failures on the first steps of learning, is suggested to produce renunciation of search, which decreases learning ability, suppress retention, and increase REM sleep requirement.
(18) (I have, incidentally, done a straw poll among my octogenarian contemporaries, and have found that the majority were as ignorant and shocked by the renunciation as I was.
(19) Presumably, the function of REM sleep is to compensate for renunciation of search in the waking period.
(20) There can be no voluntary renunciation of sovereign immunity, just as no person can sell himself into slavery.