(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).
Saint
Definition:
(n.) A person sanctified; a holy or godly person; one eminent for piety and virtue; any true Christian, as being redeemed and consecrated to God.
(n.) One of the blessed in heaven.
(n.) One canonized by the church.
(v. t.) To make a saint of; to enroll among the saints by an offical act, as of the pope; to canonize; to give the title or reputation of a saint to (some one).
(v. i.) To act or live as a saint.
Example Sentences:
(1) We’ve spoken to them on the phone and they’ve all said they just want to come home.” A total of 93 pupils from Saint-Joseph were on the trip.
(2) October 27, 2013 7.27pm GMT Around the league And here’s how things look elsewhere, as we head into the fourth quarter: Cowboys 13-7 Lions Browns 17-20 Chiefs Dolphins 17-20 Patriots Bills 10-28 Saints Giants 15-0 Eagles 49ers 35-10 Jaguars 7.25pm GMT End of 3rd quarter: 49ers 35-10 Jaguars The quarter ends with the Jaguars facing a third-and-one at their own 32.
(3) A prospective study of notified cases of tuberculosis started on treatment during 1984 in the department of Seine-Saint-Denis situated in the northern suburb of Paris was undertaken with the help of the Ministry of Health, and the National Committee for the Prevention of Tuberculosis.
(4) What punishment will Manchester City and Paris Saint-Germain face?
(5) Ibrahimovic is available on a free, having departed Paris Saint-Germain after winning four Ligue 1 titles, and has agreed personal terms worth £220,000 a week, making him one of the highest earners in the Premier League .
(6) In 1992 he enrolled for an MA at Central Saint Martins.
(7) They will be rivalled by Paris Saint-Germain, who had hoped to sign England’s most capped left-back last summer, while the player’s representatives have not ruled out a move to a rival Premier League team.
(8) Sonic opens on 18 September at Fondation Pierre Bergé-Yves Saint Laurent.
(9) An epidemiological study of dermatophytes was achieved during the years 1983-1984 in the Mycology Laboratory of Saint-Louis' Hospital.
(10) The likes of almond, blackberry and crocus first made way for analogue, block graph and celebrity in the Oxford Junior Dictionary in 2007, with protests at the time around the loss of a host of religious words such as bishop, saint and sin.
(11) Their only win in that sequence was the less than convincing 3-2 triumph over Viktoria Plzen , the Group D whipping boys, in Saint Petersburg earlier in the month.
(12) This paper present a statistical study on the population of 775 psychiatric emergencies that arrived at the emergency service of Saint-Luc Hospital in Brussels (Belgium), between September 1, 1986 and December 31, 1986.
(13) Both Manchester City and Paris Saint-Germain are believed to have fallen foul of the FFP rules with sponsorship deals related to each clubs' owners.
(14) The Saints, who started the day third in the table, went marching on thanks to their own swish play and some staggering defending by the visitors.
(15) Case studies of two anorectic women from Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Minnesota, show that for some anorectics self-starvation is encoded in religious idioms and symbols about the body, food, and self.
(16) He has set up a "trade and growth" board for Scotland and will soon lead Scotland's "largest ever trade delegation to Brazil", a visit which will take place on St Andrew's Day, the patron saints day beloved by the nationalists.
(17) Rose, a Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design fine art graduate, said she is determined that the rules should be changed "as this treatment is becoming more commonplace for Crohn's disease sufferers and I would not want any other woman to have to go through this ordeal".
(18) The Saints reward for the historic win is a divisional playoff in Seattle next weekend.
(19) It sealed a deserved three points for the Saints, who had been the better side for most of the contest.
(20) Fifty-eight households were studied in the Red Pond community, the site of the established smelter and several backyard smelters, and 21 households were studied in the adjacent, upwind Ebony Vale community in Saint Catherine Parish, Jamaica.