What's the difference between godlike and olympian?

Godlike


Definition:

  • (a.) Resembling or befitting a god or God; divine; hence, preeminently good; as, godlike virtue.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Performing arts students are particularly vulnerable because teachers of music, drama, etc are revered as “gurus” whom their starry-eyed charges believe to be godlike and all-powerful.
  • (2) Marvel's biggest film so far, The Avengers, looks like a charming episode of the Bill Bixby Incredible Hulk by comparison, and while size doesn't always make something better, if you want to sell the idea that these are godlike beings battling, then the only way to truly sell that idea is to show what they would do to our planet in the process.
  • (3) The star vehicles that helped elevate his ancestors to godlike levels of celebrity have all but disappeared.
  • (4) Team Cap looks to be the serious underdog Facebook Twitter Pinterest The two teams go at it Tony Stark has the godlike Vision on his side, as well as the powersuited War Machine (effectively a second Iron Man), Spidey, Black Widow, and Black Panther.
  • (5) By encompassing all these different facets of city living, open-world game development is approaching a form of urban planning – albeit a fantasy version, in which the designer has near-godlike agency.
  • (6) Murong said China had turned its back on the cult of personality after the godlike status afforded Mao Zedong had sparked the devastating Cultural Revolution.
  • (7) Such is David Beckham's godlike status these days – sporting ambassador, style guru, model father, stoic asthma-sufferer – it's easy to forget how unpopular he was at the start of the decade.
  • (8) While Batman has all the wealth of Wayne's billions to help him fight crime, Superman is a godlike creature from another planet whose physical stature is exaggerated a thousand times in Earth's environment.
  • (9) The band, who picked up the Godlike Genius award at this year’s NME ceremony, previously performed at the festival in 1999 So far, Arcade Fire have been the first confirmed headliners announced for 2014.
  • (10) Shows drew on songs from throughout the Cure's catalogue, some sets breaking the three-hour mark, and Smith returned to the UK to be showered in plaudits including NME's Godlike Genius award, plus a different sort of landmark – his 50th birthday.
  • (11) Lily Allen described you, at the NME awards – as she handed you and the band the Godlike Genius award for 2014 – as "possibly the greatest frontwoman in rock history".

Olympian


Definition:

  • (a.) Alt. of Olympic

Example Sentences:

  • (1) [In 2014 I saw two Oscars … one was this super-Olympian, very successful, who seemed totally in control and even physically tall with his prostheses.
  • (2) I also have a son who is a show-jumping pupil at an Olympian's academy and my youngest son, still at school, wants to be a tree surgeon.
  • (3) In one photograph displayed on TV monitors in the courtroom, spots of blood were seen next to some of the trophies won by the double-amputee Olympian and multiple Paralympic champion.
  • (4) Around 160 will take part including 30 Olympians and seven Olympic medallists.
  • (5) An intriguing merging between Olympian and local deities had occurred (the Romans being relaxed and pragmatic about that kind of thing, unless the Christians were involved).
  • (6) Some of the 52 Olympians, with dozens of medals between them and including 12 Sochi competitors, have also criticised the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and multinational sponsors for not doing more to force Vladimir Putin's administration to scale back the legislation.
  • (7) Nineteen Olympic golds (23 medals in total) confirm him as the most decorated Olympian of all time, which presumably now affords him a spot on Mount Rushmore.
  • (8) That "pocket of calm" is every Olympian's holy grail.
  • (9) My favourite Coe moment of the past fortnight was seeing the Olympian in Chief held in a queue behind the back of the stands before the start of the triathlon by a super-efficient volunteer on the "Olympic Family" gate.
  • (10) Now let’s see how the two-time Olympic gold medal winner compares to other Olympians.
  • (11) If an appeal court found him guilty of murder, the former Olympian could face at least 15 years in prison.
  • (12) Inspired by Jack London's 1903 book People of the Abyss about how imperial London treated its East End poor, Lindqvist reflects on the same subject a century on as the capital of imperial shame postures and struts Olympian.
  • (13) For most of Britain’s two-wheeled Olympians this has been a stressful week, with the resignation of British Cycling’s technical director, Shane Sutton , but unlike her colleague on the track squad, Armitstead will be barely affected.
  • (14) This is a culture where Holger Osieck, the manager of the Australian football team, can say "women should shut up in public "; where the former boxing world champion Amir Khan can warn female boxers, "When you get hit it can be very painful" ; and where the American network NBC can air a slow-motion montage of female athletes wobbling, like Olympians who have wandered, obliviously, into porn.
  • (15) Before these Olympics began, there were one or two articles and features about Pindar, how in Athens he earned his living singing odes to the great Olympians, so their names would live down the decades and centuries.
  • (16) February 15, 2013 9.44am GMT A police officer holds a gun that was allegedly used in the shooting of Reeva Steenkamp, the girlfriend of Olympian athlete Oscar Pistorius.
  • (17) ThreatConnect’s Toni Gidwani, formerly of the US Defense Intelligence Agency, told the Guardian that the breach came after the revelation of widespread cheating by Russian Olympians.
  • (18) Roux was trying to reinforce the Olympian's story that he shot the model by mistake on 14 February 2013 and then desperately broke through a locked toilet door to help her.
  • (19) The Hatfield Olympian had operated at the best available level domestically, but Lee, seasoned during a long spell in America under the late Manny Steward, had elite-level experience and a track record of resilience.
  • (20) It had obviously been a harrowing experience, one of Pachauri's senior associates told me, but he never lost his Olympian calm or his warm collegiality, turning out every weekend as usual -- at the age of 70 -- to play for TERI's redoubtable cricket team.

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