apotheosis

They called it the “Attitude Era,” and in retrospect it represented the absolute apotheosis of pre-millennium x-treme marketing.

From Slate ● Jun. 11, 2026

That project arguably reached its apotheosis in his 28 frescoes on the life of Francis that run along the nave of the upper church in Assisi.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 11, 2026

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

Cooper impressively mimics Bernstein’s movements in a performance of the apotheosis of Mahler’s Second Symphony at the Ely Cathedral in London, which Bernstein filmed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 22, 2023

After several rounds of refinement in the Langley wind tunnels, the Mustang achieved its apotheosis with the P-51D.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly

And the things it forgets, the apotheoses and apocalypses it lets sift through its mesh!

From The Guardian ● Oct. 15, 2016

They are their own apotheoses, their own parodies.

From Time Magazine Archive

Pictures of battles, triumphs, apotheoses filled the galleries.

From The Influence of the Bible on Civilisation by Ernst Von Dobschutz

Outraged public conscience extinguishes the fires of apotheoses such as these.

From Marie Antoinette and the Downfall of Royalty by Arthur Léon, baron Imbert de Saint-Amand

Some have filled their skies with beings as little aerial as possible, or apotheoses of the Virgin and sundry saints.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 341, November 15, 1828 by Various