(n.) A half god, or an inferior deity; a fabulous hero, the offspring of a deity and a mortal.
Example Sentences:
(1) Bowie’s 1973 album Aladdin Sane, recorded between the two North American stints of the Ziggy Stardust tour, was conceived as “Ziggy goes to America”, the rock demigod encountering a place equal to his glamour and madness, from the riots of Panic in Detroit to the Hollywood decadence of Cracked Actor, and the sexual alienation of Drive-In Saturday, the title alone a play on the drive-in movie theatres which even now seem so glamorously foreign to Brits.
(2) When Angelina Jolie and Leonardo DiCaprio signed up to humanitarian and environmental causes, for instance, they were already untouchably glamorous demigods whose lives seemed a million miles away from their fans’, and whose jet-setting activism seemed almost as distant.
(3) He achieved that demigod-like status, at least in Pennsylvania and among Penn State fans.
(4) Cable said: "It is clear that in banks like RBS the demigod status granted to Fred Goodwin prevented any form of credible scrutiny.
(5) The more famous phrase was an invention of Turner's friend, John Ruskin , the critic who made the artist a kind of demigod, championing his every brushstroke.
(6) Produced by Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim, veritable demigods of the online comedy scene, 555’s hipster credentials are close to unassailable.
(7) For every weedy Peter Parker or Tony Stark sans Iron Man armour, there are armies of demigods looking ripped in latex and leather, many of them played by people called Chris.
(8) At least it is for Tom Derry, who visits the fenced-off shrine in Detroit’s Corktown neighbourhood every week, in memory of the demigods who once walked here.
(9) Saturday saw Lybke, hungover but still in paunchy Teutonic demigod mode, glad-handing the crowd who were eddying through his gallery.
(10) Ayman Youssef Mansour also received three years, but this time not for offending the demigods of the military but rather for "insulting" Islam , "promoting extremist ideas" and "inciting sectarianism" on Facebook.
(11) Australian actor Chris Hemsworth rounds out the top five with $37m, thanks to his roles as a Norse demigod in last year's Thor: The Dark World and the 2012 $1.5bn box-office megalith The Avengers .
(12) And yet, just as an atheist would argue the universe is all the more beautiful and wondrous when divine intervention is removed from the equation, so Smith found his admiration for Mandela grew as he understood the flesh and blood human being, rather than the demigod.
(13) We’re still waiting to see whether Captain America will use his ability, as yet unmentioned in the films and unknown to Cap, to wield Thor’s hammer – and with it the demigod’s power.
(14) He achieved a sort of demigod status in the state, where his 2015 escape was greeted with celebratory gunfire and choruses of narcocorridos (songs lionizing narcos).
God
Definition:
(a. & n.) Good.
(n.) A being conceived of as possessing supernatural power, and to be propitiated by sacrifice, worship, etc.; a divinity; a deity; an object of worship; an idol.
(n.) The Supreme Being; the eternal and infinite Spirit, the Creator, and the Sovereign of the universe; Jehovah.
(n.) A person or thing deified and honored as the chief good; an object of supreme regard.
(n.) Figuratively applied to one who wields great or despotic power.
(v. t.) To treat as a god; to idolize.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is my desperate hope that we close out of town.” In the book, God publishes his own 'It Getteth Better' video and clarifies his original writings on homosexuality: I remember dictating these lines to Moses; and afterward looking up to find him staring at me in wide-eyed astonishment, and saying, "Thou do knowest that when the Israelites read this, they're going to lose their fucking shit, right?"
(2) Crown prince Sultan Bin Abdel Aziz said yesterday that the state had "spared no effort" to avoid such disasters but added that "it cannot stop what God has preordained.
(3) Join a Twitter book club It all started last summer, when 12,000 people took to Twitter to discuss Neil Gaiman's American Gods .
(4) The author discusses marriages in which a basically insecure husband plays a god-like role and his wife, who initially worshipped him, matures and finds her situation depressing and degrading.
(5) If you can get through them, then you are considered a god in the world of cold calling.
(6) Last night, in a dramatic announcement that led some to accuse him of playing God, Venter said the dream had come true, saying he had created an organism with manmade DNA .
(7) The characters in the film realise that the “gods are not coming to save us”, he said.
(8) When I lived in New York, my local yoga centre would advocate veganism in terms I hadn't heard since I last went to synagogue ("godly") or spoke regularly to anorexics ("clean", "pure").
(9) In 1945 Aneurin Bevan said: ‘We have been the dreamers, we have been the sufferers, and now, we are the builders.’ And my God, how they built.
(10) From the moment God speaks to him until he leaves the ark and steps on to dry land, he never says a word.
(11) What the film does, though, is use these incidents to build an idiosyncratic but insightful picture of Lawrence, played indelibly by Peter O'Toole in his debut role: a complicated, egomaniacal and physically masochistic man, at once god-like and all too flawed, with a tenuous grip both on reality and on sanity.
(12) He was in Cruise of the Gods with Steve Coogan, Rob Brydon and David Walliams and, most famously, in the stage and screen version of The History Boys.
(13) And I believe that America holds within her the truth that regardless of race, religion, or station in life, all of us share common aspirations – to live in peace and security; to get an education and to work with dignity; to love our families, our communities, and our God.
(14) His "Oh God" prayer was actually written after the England team failed in the 2010 World Cup in South Africa but is likely to be useful in all future tournaments as well.
(15) OH MY GOD, I just looked it up online,” she wrote.
(16) There is a god who protects me, and I just don’t believe Hofer will send me to a concentration camp.” Like Marine Le Pen’s Front National, the Freedom party has actively tried to distance itself from its antisemitic past since at least 2010, when it joined a cross-party alliance in the European parliament with Geert Wilders’ Party for Freedom and Italy’s Northern League.
(17) It's hard to imagine a more masculine character than Thor, who is based on the god of thunder of Norse myth: he's the strapping, hammer-wielding son of Odin who, more often than not, sports a beard and likes nothing better than smacking frost giants.
(18) In fact, it soon became clear that if there was anything designed to get Tony really riled, it was talk of God.
(19) Thank God the heroes of SWAT-team prevented the worst.
(20) Expressing the belief that it was important for Christians to engage in "a sincere and rigorous dialogue" with atheists, Francis recalled Scalfari had asked him whether God forgave those "who do not believe and do not seek to believe".