Besides, this carries with it the idea of deifying money, the mystique of money, the idea of resolving matters through luck and not through work.    From Wordnik.com.  [CASTRO SPEAKS ON EDUCATION AND PARASITES] Reference

As far a "deifying" the flag, the banner has been used as a countries 'symbol for unity ever since they started using them to tell people apart.    From Wordnik.com.  [American Flag Napkin] Reference

Anyone who insists on deifying such a thing is just asking for trouble.    From Wordnik.com.  [loyalty] Reference

Hillary's fans like to accuse Obama's supporters of deifying Obama somehow.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ohio's Largest Paper Endorses Obama] Reference

Shouldn't it be possible to mourn Russert's untimely death without deifying him?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Twice Before Joining the Buffet Line: James Wolcott] Reference

You agree that “deifying” leaders is more prevalent on the Left than the Right.    From Wordnik.com.  [The press and Obama: where’s that lovin’ feeling?] Reference

Lots of people are deifying Al Gore these days, but in 2000, he ran a bad campaign.    From Wordnik.com.  [04/18/2007] Reference

How do you feel for instance about the prevalence among the Left in deifying Che Guevera?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Althouse/Goldberg.] Reference

I'm not a spoiled kiddie Streiff....you are a pompous, arrogant and self deifying windbag.    From Wordnik.com.  [Challenging John McCain - Erick’s blog - RedState] Reference

And we have collectively enabled the twin evils of fascism and imperialism by deifying money.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blind Obedience to the Canons of Capitalism:Of Sick Societies, American Dalits, and a Nation of Lady Macbeths] Reference

Here, a distinction must be made between having a respectful love for one's country from deifying it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Has Patriotism Become A Religion?] Reference

But he was more than fascinated: He had every intention of harnessing that deifying impulse for his own ends.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telling Flackery From Fakery: A Spinmeister's Elusive Career] Reference

This guy the left is deifying so exhuberantly is the same slimeball that was left on Monicas dress, remember?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » VIDEO: Clinton Sets The Record Straight On Terrorism, Smacks Down Fox News] Reference

The attempt, which is to form the subject of our study to-day, that of deifying man, is a far more subtle one.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Heavenly Father Lectures on Modern Atheism] Reference

No matter that a new generation of historians is deifying Ronald Reagan; his presidency was a fiscal disaster.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reese Schonfeld: Trickle-Down and Pissed Away] Reference

The authors do an excellent job of illuminating their subjects without either demonizing them, or deifying them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cambodia Book Reviews: The Eagle Mutiny] Reference

Beware of deifying someone who is after all mortal, replete with virtues and vices, good points and shortcomings.    From Wordnik.com.  [The press and Obama: where’s that lovin’ feeling?] Reference

I mention Bonaparte -- because there's a certain thought process out there deifying African "traditional" communal ways.    From Wordnik.com.  [May 2009] Reference

No one would be hysterical, or driven half-mad, or endlessly obsessing and even deifying him, the way they did with Sara.    From Wordnik.com.  [Surrender, Dorothy] Reference

While Republicans deifying Reagan is nothing new, it turns out they may have used the Reagan name in vain one time too many.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Filipowicz: Zombie Reagan Fails The Reagan Test] Reference

To conceive of almost any transcendent abstraction as having ontological status, without deifying it, is indeed troublesome.    From Wordnik.com.  [APPEARANCE AND REALITY] Reference

Perhaps neo or someone else with insight into psychology can explain why leftists are so uniquely prone to deifying their leaders.    From Wordnik.com.  [The press and Obama: where’s that lovin’ feeling?] Reference

The deification of the ‎ people had begun: the French people deified, the Germans soon reacted by deifying the ‎ German people.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Seven Dimensions] Reference

Was there then, after all, something in the old heathen worship, something more than the mere deifying of men, animals and elements?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The House on the Borderland] Reference

He disdains the communal gushing and deifying, "the fetishistic veneration," while nurturing a private, though complicated, affection.    From Wordnik.com.  [The uneasy namesake] Reference

How do you think that is playing in the Arab world, that he is successfully deifying both the Iraqi government and the U.S. Government?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 19, 2004] Reference

“Perhaps neo or someone else with insight into psychology can explain why leftists are so uniquely prone to deifying their leaders.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The press and Obama: where’s that lovin’ feeling?] Reference

Was it Jigga, as Obama mentally scrolled through his list of detractors in the media and politics, who tried to clown him by deifying him?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Barry Michael Cooper: When Politics Became The New Hip Hop] Reference

Homer says, They were in the beginning generated from the waters of the ocean, and thousands were added by deifying departed heroes and philosophers.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, April, 1880] Reference

The earnest hope that this moral crisis can somehow be met by deifying nature itself is an evidence of the spiritual and intellectual desperation that the crisis has engendered.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Prosperity of Humankind] Reference

But they haven't, and this calls out the problem with deifying "community.".    From Wordnik.com.  [CNET News.com] Reference

It is this deifying the current form of capitalist property that we need to demolish.    From Wordnik.com.  [Political Affairs Magazine] Reference

He didn't really want to sign an autograph because he thought we were deifying him and he didn't want to be deified.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pitchfork: Latest News] Reference