To insist on purity is to baptize instinct, to humanize art, and to deify personality. From LearnThat.org. [Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918).]
These young men deify financial success. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Verb (used with object), : to deify a beloved king. ,to deify wealth. From Dictionary.com.
The story that accompanied the cover shoot did not "deify" the Palins or their choices, nor did it push any sort of policy. From Wordnik.com. [NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias] Reference
Would bind, imprison, hang the Right, and deify the Wrong. From Wordnik.com. [War Poetry of the South] Reference
His nobility of thoughs and actions deify his personality. From Wordnik.com. [Professional role of Pak Army] Reference
We deify the garments associated with that all-supreme moment. From Wordnik.com. [Modeste Mignon] Reference
Ascham with their lectures and writings almost deify Cicero and. From Wordnik.com. [The Advancement of Learning] Reference
But save the laurels for later; the Senate should grill him, not deify him. From Wordnik.com. [Robert L. Borosage: Wall Street Rules: The Bernanke Reappointment] Reference
Having proceeded to deify leeks and onions, you, oh Egypt, worship such gods. From Wordnik.com. [Anatomy of Melancholy] Reference
Marcus Trescothick is already a legend in the county but this would deify him. From Wordnik.com. [Somerset county championship win would exorcise ghosts of legends past] Reference
He was a man of arms who refused to glorify arms or to deify the use of force. From Wordnik.com. ["Two Wings of a Great Movement"] Reference
Jason Rosenhouse finds some Schlaflyites who seem to deify the founding fathers. From Wordnik.com. [Constitutional evolutionism?] Reference
We're quick to immortalize and deify individuals who possess certain traits we admire. From Wordnik.com. [Sahil Kapur: Remembering Kurt Cobain: A Spirit That Lives On] Reference
How can you deify Teddy who is 76 and characterize McCain as being to old to handle the job?. From Wordnik.com. [Kennedy under evaluation but on the mend] Reference
Man is not the summit and principle of the universe; in vain does he labor to deify himself. From Wordnik.com. [The Heavenly Father Lectures on Modern Atheism] Reference
You sit here and deify the producers of Lost for “thumbing their noses” at you, the fans. From Wordnik.com. [The Tail Section » Lost Pull’s a ‘Prisoner’ with Expose] Reference
So let's not deify him, because what we do is we deify, and then we're ready to chop it down. From Wordnik.com. [A Real Wife, In a Real Marriage] Reference
While their hard work and perseverance are often admirable, I wouldn't be too quick to deify. From Wordnik.com. [You're Not Super Rich? You Lucked Out.] Reference
Beijing's deify-and-conquer campaign hasn't won over many of the stubbornly independent Tibetans. From Wordnik.com. [In China, A Strategy Of Deify-And-Conquer] Reference
I want to hurl my cookies every time I see how the Republicans deify Reagan but to each their own. From Wordnik.com. [Palin's pregnant daughter: Does it matter to voters?] Reference
The ultranationalists and neocons remember how he sold them out on the USSR, even if they deify him in public. From Wordnik.com. [Mark Kleiman: McCain and the Wingnuts] Reference
But here's some advice, anyway, before we move on to something more interesting-why it's wrong to deify the Dow. From Wordnik.com. [Forget The Dow] Reference
"It's really seen almost as treason against their whole political system — a system built to deify the leader.". From Wordnik.com. [Houses of the Hidden] Reference
Now I don't know anything about Craig Ferguson as a person, and I'm not going to deify him for this one monologue. From Wordnik.com. [Type D D!] Reference
We have a bias to deify the words of our ancestors, forgetting the human process that wrestled them into existence. From Wordnik.com. [Valerie Tarico: Worshipping the Written Word] Reference
Let us leave him tears, repentance, conflict, and hope; but let us not deify him; for, no sooner shall he have said. From Wordnik.com. [The Heavenly Father Lectures on Modern Atheism] Reference
She says her comments about his foibles -- i.e. snoring and the butter -- were so people won't deify him -- her word. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 11, 2008] Reference
Wittynamehear: “We will shout, we will harken, we will deify the incontinence of the one true word of the almighty!”. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Paul Broun goes birther: ‘I don’t know’ if Obama is an American citizen.] Reference
What I mean by that is, particularly during the last decade of the '90s, we began to deify CEOs and corporate executives. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 31, 2003] Reference
Sad to say, it's no longer the default state of thoughtful people to distrust authority, and to deify journalists with very messy desks. From Wordnik.com. [Chuck Weinstock: Movies for Grownups] Reference
“Wittynamehere,” when you wrote the words “deify the incontinence of the one true word of the almighty,” what did you mean by that?. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Paul Broun goes birther: ‘I don’t know’ if Obama is an American citizen.] Reference
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