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. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
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. ❋ Unknown (1999)
But rather than apotheosize about some potential, let's talk about realities. ❋ ITY National Archives (1998)
It is fitting that a playwright whose best works apotheosize the platitude compiled a book on the theater crammed with platitudes. ❋ Sontag, Susan (1964)
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. ❋ Various (N/A)
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. ❋ Various (N/A)
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. ❋ Unknown (1919)
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. ❋ Unknown (1919)
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. ❋ Morse, Samuel F B (1914)
In all ages, in order to justify the passions, it was necessary to apotheosize them. ❋ Robinson, Charles Henry (1903)
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. ❋ Unknown (1899)
[1] One proof of the obscurity in which Dominic remained so long as Rome did not apotheosize him, is that Jacques de Vitry, who consecrates a whole chapter of his _Historia Occidentalis_ to the Preaching Friars (27, p. 333) does not even name the founder. ❋ Paul Sabatier (1893)
It is a singular piece of good-nature in you to apotheosize him. ❋ Carlyle, Thomas (1883)
Public pity seeks to apotheosize those [129] urged to suicide by cruelty, or those executed for offences which, although legally criminal, were inspired by patriotic or other motives commanding sympathy. ❋ Lafcadio Hearn (1877)
The Devas sprung from the Pit_ri_s, because it was usual to apotheosize the dead. ❋ Alexander Wilder (1861)
To apotheosize the clichés of the genre while subverting them is a neat trick, but the ❋ Unknown (2010)
“You’re not a [good person] just because you believe in a [specific] religion, you’re just [apotheosizing] your own group.” ❋ ZoeyPosthuman (2022)
