(n.) A church festival celebrated on the 6th of January, the twelfth day after Christmas, in commemoration of the visit of the Magi of the East to Bethlehem, to see and worship the child Jesus; or, as others maintain, to commemorate the appearance of the star to the Magi, symbolizing the manifestation of Christ to the Gentles; Twelfthtide.
Example Sentences:
(1) Photograph: Warner Bros His first epiphany came during a high school version of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel in the high school auditorium before 1,500 people.
(2) If it felt like an epiphany for Benn, it was more like a Sermon on the Mount to his Labour colleagues.
(3) In the film, Gould says that he knows he cannot beat death; indeed, his acceptance of its approach is at the root of his epiphany.
(4) For Demirtaş, the Diyarbakir killings were an epiphany of the kind that hundreds of thousands of Kurds have experienced over the past 40 years – generally in response to a government atrocity.
(5) I don't know of any recent astronauts who've had an epiphany based on space travel."
(6) But as my adult-onset acne continued to get worse and worse – and more resistant to medication – I had an epiphany.
(7) Talking with Hebden as he chats about making music, or the feeling in the room as he DJed that final night of Plastic People, you notice how he describes his life as a series of little epiphanies.
(8) Osborne gets lost In an interview with the Guardian’s editor-in-chief, Kath Viner, George Osborne admitted to an unusual epiphany on getting to know the north.
(9) Late, late has been their epiphany, but still too late for this year.
(10) This professional epiphany was mirrored by a challenge to his family life when his son Kai (Markram has five children from two marriages) was diagnosed with Asperger's, an autism spectrum disorder.
(11) The capacity to inspire epiphany in others is a life-changing gift.
(12) His explanation for the leap is that he had an epiphany when he was in his last year of Stanford, when one of his younger brothers came out as gay.
(13) When I was 56 we went to New England on holiday and I had an epiphany.
(14) I had at least two life epiphanies during Where Dreams Go to Die, which contains maybe my favourite lyric of all time: “I regret the day your ugly carcass caught my eye”.
(15) Were it not for the PKK, which Öcalan launched with the murder of two Turkish soldiers in 1984, it is possible that the forced assimilation of the Kurds into mainstream Turkish society would have advanced much further, and the epiphanies of Demirtaş and others may not have happened.
(16) Making commitments now risks overcompensation for households and adding significantly to the cost of household assistance.” Tony Abbott's GST 'epiphany' has been a long time in the works Read more The New South Wales Coalition government led the charge for increasing the GST to help fund the shortfall in health funding, while the Victorian and Queensland Labor governments suggested the Medicare levy as a fairer alternative .
(17) Intriguingly, it was not the prospect of Lebedev, bearing a vast bouquet of P45s, that caused alarm in the blogosphere, but a handful of Liddle's hundreds of columns, such as a grotesque ad feminam attack in the Spectator which was, for many of us, an epiphany, the first moment we had ever felt warmly towards Harriet Harman.
(18) "When I saw there was a whole system of science based on genetics, of serious work in the evolutionary pattern, that was an epiphany.
(19) But no sign yet that the Davos set is worrying unduly: by Epiphany – 6 January – FTSE 100 chief executives had already earned more than a year of the average wage .
(20) T he moment that changed James Watt’s life – his beer epiphany, which he recalls with surprising (or well-rehearsed) precision – did not arrive in the most auspicious venue: “It was a Sierra Nevada Pale Ale from the States, bought at Tesco’s in Stonehaven, to wash down some fish and chips.
Superhuman
Definition:
(a.) Above or beyond what is human; sometimes, divine; as, superhuman strength; superhuman wisdom.
Example Sentences:
(1) She was presented as something superhuman but also unreal, sanitised, infantilised; she was more than just a woman singing a song, she was an Ideal, a Symbol.
(2) Whereas near superhuman feats by ordinary individuals caught in life-threatening situations have been reported, variations of great magnitude are unlikely in sport.
(3) I thought that was crucial, to show this superhuman strength she has.
(4) Such was their mutual respect, however, that the future mayor of London offered Willis membership of the Bullingdon, which, in Johnson's own words, was a "vignette of almost superhuman undergraduate arrogance, toffishness and twittishness".
(5) When Oscar Pistorius donned a pair of carbon-fibre blades to compete alongside able-bodied athletes at the 2012 Olympics, he had ceased to be a disabled athlete; instead, he offered us a glimpse of a "superhuman" future where Paralympians aided by bionics or performance-enhancing drugs might set hitherto unimaginable sporting records.
(6) The X-Files' entry into this canon is Eve, a cloned child with superhuman intelligence who likes to kill grown-ups.
(7) It’s time for English policymakers to forget about calling disabled people “superhuman” and instead to start making it possible for them to be treated as human, with equal civil and human rights.
(8) Many policymakers have expressed a desire to link executive pay to company performance , but suggest that company performance is entirely dependent on the actions of a handful of superhumans and that everyone else is more or less irrelevant.
(9) To describe his work in progress, he jotted down a list of hyperbolic adjectives: "Astounding, extraordinary, surprising, superhuman, supernatural, unheard of, savage, sinister, formidable, gigantic, savage, colossal, monstrous, deformed, disturbed, electrifying, lugubrious, funereal, hideous, terrifying, shadowy, mysterious, fantastic, nocturnal, crepuscular."
(10) Agency: Wieden + Kennedy (New York) Director: Tim Godsall Channel 4: 'Meet the Superhumans' (starts at 01:08) - UK This sensational film helped set the tone for Channel 4's award-winning coverage of last year's Paralympics.
(11) Since the London Paralympics, many disabled activists have contrasted the way in which a few elite disabled athletes have been bigged up as “superhumans” and “Yes I can” people, while the lives of many more disabled people have been increasingly undermined by austerity policy, welfare reform and public service cuts.
(12) In a leader column, the red-top condemned homophobes as a "moronic minority" and said it would take "almost superhuman bravery" for a top-flight footballer to follow in Hitzlsperger's footsteps.
(13) Not so long ago we thought he was superhuman and his slayings were guilty pleasures.
(14) Set 45 years into the future, soldiers wear exoskeletons which grant them superhuman strength, allowing them to carry great loads, to take lingering leaps into the air and to clamber up the side of buildings.
(15) Our country is, because of its geographic position, a gateway and it needs support, funds and infrastructure in order to help these desperate people, as it must do.” The marine minister, Christos Zois, also issued a statement to highlight the “daily superhuman struggle” of the Greek coastguard to “save thousands of people, victims of human smugglers”.
(16) Somewhere along the line, this was forgotten, in favour of musclebound Stakhanovites performing superhuman feats of coal-hewing.
(17) No matter how highly paid someone is, it doesn't suddenly give them superhuman powers to provide rich and developmentally appropriate care and learning opportunities to eight highly demanding two-year-olds.
(18) Michal Hubschmann’s almost superhuman three-minute pitch, on the other hand, left even the event’s cuddly polar bear mascot looking blue around the paws.
(19) On Egyptian streets Abdel Fatah al-Sisi – the top general who ousted ex-president Mohamed Morsi last summer – reached superhuman status months ago.
(20) Fear makes us run, it makes us leap, it can make us act superhuman.