Noun, : This poem is the apotheosis of lyric expression. From Dictionary.com.
In this way, the text convicts the opening perspectives as being "apotheoses" of "given relations" that those perspectives both imply, and yet cannot explicitly grasp. From Wordnik.com. [Roughtheory.org] Reference
They are the apotheoses of their own temperaments. From Wordnik.com. [Lance Mannion:] Reference
The Greeks and Romans augment the number of their gods by their apotheoses. From Wordnik.com. [A Philosophical Dictionary] Reference
These apotheoses of men after their death became more frequent in later ages. From Wordnik.com. [Lunheng] Reference
The apotheoses of the ancients were the effect of flattery, ours are produced by a respect for virtue. From Wordnik.com. [A Philosophical Dictionary] Reference
Lake Baikal and the Arctic Refuge stand as the apotheoses of their respective country's environmental movements. From Wordnik.com. [David B. Williams: Restraint and Hope: Lessons From Lake Baikal and the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge] Reference
Are we bidding farewell to our loyalty to the United States and its apotheoses of prosperity and power, as we now read in all newspapers?. From Wordnik.com. [Frank Schirrmacher: Assume the Fetal Position] Reference
Our apotheoses are of a different kind; we have infinitely more saints than they have secondary gods, but we pay respect neither to rank nor to conquest. From Wordnik.com. [A Philosophical Dictionary] Reference
André, J. text and translation of 1977, 51-53 apotheoses of Hercules, Aeneas, Romulus, Julius Caesar, and Augustus as described by Ovid, 401 articles arising from this edition, iv-vi. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Poems of Ovid] Reference
When new pieces were brought out, he told me one could see between the acts the lieutenants go up to the captain-critics and receive instructions from them; the consequence was, the theatrical criticisms were either collective apotheoses or collective executions. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 82, August, 1864] Reference
Thus did flattery renew the apotheoses of the Caesars of ancient Rome. From Wordnik.com. [The Court of the Empress Josephine] Reference
Soochow the Governor, the provincial Treasurer, the Criminal Judge, the Intendant of Circuit, the Prefect or Departmental Governor, and the three District Magistrates or County Governors each have temples with their apotheoses in the other world. From Wordnik.com. [Myths and Legends of China] Reference
He has merely to push himself ahead and elbow his way to secure a ticket "in this immense lottery of popular luck, of preferment without merit, of success without talent, of apotheoses without virtues, of an infinity of places distributed by the people wholesale, and enjoyed by the people in detail.". From Wordnik.com. [The French Revolution - Volume 2] Reference
Susan bending over her fire, blowing at it with expanded cheeks and, between her puffs, scolding at her father, first, for having got wet, then for having stayed wet, and now for being still wet, was to David just as charming as any of the other and milder apotheoses of the Susan he had come to know so well. From Wordnik.com. [The Emigrant Trail] Reference
hippopotamuses in ballet - shoes, the travesties of physics, the brilliant musical apotheoses. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
For these funereal apotheoses, these encomiastic requiems, having all the attraction of the abyss for weak minds and ambitious vanities, many of these yielding to this attraction have thought that fatality was the half of genius; many have dreamt of the hospital bed on which Gilbert died, hoping that they would become poets, as he did a quarter of an hour before dying, and believing that it was an obligatory stage in order to arrive at glory. From Wordnik.com. [Bohemians of the Latin Quarter] Reference
From the day when the ballet-dancer, once famous for her extravagant caprices, who squandered princely fortunes between her five parted fingers, had descended from the realm of apotheoses with a last remnant of their dazzling glare still lingering in her eyes, and had tried to resume the life of ordinary mortals, to administer her little income and her modest household, she had been subjected to a multitude of unblushing attempts at extortion and schemes which were readily successful in view of the ignorance of that poor butterfly, who was afraid of reality and constantly coming in contact with all its unknown difficulties. From Wordnik.com. [The Nabob, Volume 1 (of 2)] Reference
"Eagle of the apotheoses, what breath of Erebus has driven thee to me? or, flying from the Campus Martius, dost thou bring to me the soul of the last of the Emperors?. From Wordnik.com. [Tentation de saint Antoine. English] Reference
The result is that he has plenty of apotheoses. From Wordnik.com. [Napoleon the Little] Reference
A girl, would appreciate him in these apotheoses. From Wordnik.com. [Boy Life Stories and Readings Selected From The Works of William Dean Howells] Reference
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