apotheosis
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Mr. Rood tells us, that the plantation model reached “the apotheosis of the form.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026
“Huck Finn” was the apotheosis of Twain’s gift for truth-telling, as he exposed the sadistic oppression of Black people and made the slave Jim the hero.
From Los Angeles Times • May 9, 2025
Borglum believed the American political system was the apotheosis of human civilization, and he wanted his sculpture to stand alongside the Parthenon and pyramids as testaments to grand civilizations and cultures.
From Slate • Mar. 13, 2025
This revisionist history reached its apotheosis with a 2007 essay collection edited by the historians Kenneth T. Jackson and Hilary Ballon.
From Slate • Sep. 16, 2024
Ironically, this disenchantment with Durham’s black elite among poor blacks came just as the former group realized its apotheosis.
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
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