King of Kings
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It was a reference to a sonnet by Percy Bysse Shelley: Ozymandias, King of Kings.
From BBC • Sep. 19, 2024
King is taking part in Brazil's King of Kings competition, the first of its kind where 15 drag kings from around the country compete to win the title.
From Reuters • Feb. 7, 2023
He holds a sword and mace, and across his long cloak, the inscription in middle Brahmi, an ancient Indian script, now extinct, reads: “The Great King, King of Kings, Son of a God, Kanishka.”
From New York Times • May 11, 2020
Like the statue that Shelley describes crumbling in the desert, every literary award shouts, “My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;/ Look on my Works.”
From Washington Post • Jul. 9, 2018
“The last one. Old Testament. Second Maccabees 13:4: ‘But the King of Kings aroused the anger of Antiochus against the rascal.’”
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
