apotheosize

The hovering brush strokes and vertiginous layering of an emerald Laura Owens canvas apotheosize Photoshop techniques.

From New York Times ● Jul. 13, 2022

How did the unifying centrist apotheosize into the Notorious RBG, a revered icon of fiery dissent?

From Washington Post ● Nov. 8, 2018

Now, though, Lewis has taken on his most difficult challenge: He has chosen to apotheosize three obscure government agencies — the Department of Energy, the Department of Agriculture and the Department of Commerce.

From New York Times ● Oct. 8, 2018

To apotheosize the clichés of the genre while subverting them is a neat trick, but the cadre pulls it off.

From Time ● Apr. 16, 2010

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.

From Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 12 by William Cowper Brann

And, while very soon he would be dead, at this precise moment Elvis Presley was apotheosized.

From New York Times ● Jun. 23, 2022

On Feb. 1, the ayatollah, as if apotheosized, returned home triumphantly from France to joy and subsequent years of then-unimagined absolute power and ruthless change.

From New York Times ● Jan. 11, 2010

In this, the Media Lab has apotheosized the capitalistic philosophy of its parent institution, which in the 20th century pioneered the now-common nexus between academic science and private industry.

From Slate

Both had drowned in the Nile, and victims so chosen by the god of the Nile were automatically apotheosized, as a Greek might be by a lightning bolt from Zeus.

From Time Magazine Archive

The worship, we saw, was at first that of the star K’uei, the apotheosized ‘homely,’ successful, but rejected candidate.

From Myths and Legends of China by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner

Even the most lurid forms of behavior are accorded the same apotheosizing gloss.

From New York Times ● Feb. 23, 2018

And in what land has the apotheosizing imagination been more active than in Japan?

From Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic by Sidney Lewis Gulick

While posing as the apostle of light, you will obscure the scintillations of the stars because the sun is hid; while apotheosizing Happiness you would banish Hope, that mother of which it is born.

From Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 01 by William Cowper Brann