This was rather a rash venture in prognostication, for it may be easy enough to "apotheosize" the horse, but to what idyllic heights the automobile is destined to ultimately reach no one really knows.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Automobilist Abroad] Reference

But rather than apotheosize about some potential, let's talk about realities.    From Wordnik.com.  [Press Briefing By Mack Mclarty And Richard Riley] Reference

It is fitting that a playwright whose best works apotheosize the platitude compiled a book on the theater crammed with platitudes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ionesco: the Theater of the Banal] Reference

The same Milos Forman who felt the brunt of Czechoslovakia's Communist censors was destined to apotheosize Mr. Flynt's contributions to the bizarre saga of American liberty.    From Wordnik.com.  [It's 'Libertine' Jesse Ventura Vs. the G.O.P. Culture Jihad] Reference

They are but the nerves and muscles, the sinews and the blood of the being we apotheosize -- the mere aids of the mighty brain, the seat of the controlling spirit of the whole.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851] Reference

The old author dreamed that the heroes of the Trojan War were changed by Zeus into the warriors of the mimic strife in order that such renowned exploits should be perpetuated among men forever: rather must we reverse the dream, and apotheosize the powers of the board, that they may appear in the sieges, heroisms, and victories of life.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 32, June, 1860] Reference

It is a singular piece of good-nature in you to apotheosize him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I] Reference

In all ages, in order to justify the passions, it was necessary to apotheosize them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ninon de L'Enclos the Celebrated Beauty of the 17th Century]

To apotheosize the clichés of the genre while subverting them is a neat trick, but the.    From Wordnik.com.  [TIME.com: Top Stories] Reference

For better or worse, we continue to celebrate and apotheosize the yoni and lingam in a highly fetishized form of puja-paath.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kafila] Reference

Many of the martyrs whose memory we revere, of the saints we apotheosize, of the heroes we enshrine in history, are one-third fraud and two-thirds fake.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 12] Reference

The devotee essays two things: he would apotheosize the object of his adoration and place her as a constellation among the stars; yet he would have her at the same time terrestrial and tangible.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hints for Lovers] Reference

Rachel Kleinfeld, the executive director of the Truman National Security Project, may be a late entrant to the campaign to apotheosize a general who doesn't need hyperbole, but in the Winter issue of.    From Wordnik.com.  [TPMCafe] Reference

It is the main-spring of many acts we loudly praise, the lode-star of men we apotheosize, is oftimes the warp and woof even of the mantle of charity, which, like a well-filled purse -- or a tariff compromise -- covers a multitude of sins.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 12] Reference

This florid and fulsome eulogy was written by that singular being who could thus flatter, and almost apotheosize, the inventor in public, while in secret he was doing everything to thwart him, and who never, as long as he lived, ceased to antagonize him, and later accused him of having claimed the credit of an invention all the essentials of which were invented by others.    From Wordnik.com.  [Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals In Two Volumes, Volume II] Reference

But I have apostrophiz’d thee, Trim! once before — and could I apotheosize thee also (that is to say) with good company — I would do it without ceremony in the very next page.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman] Reference

For all the importance that non-zero-sum games have had in the process of evolution and the rise of civilization, it is vital that we don’t apotheosize or sentimentalize the relation to the extent that we think “non-zero-sum = good” and “zero-sum = bad.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Responses to Robert Wright] Reference

Yet why apotheosize conquerors at all?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860] Reference