apotheosis
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The use of the harp stood out, as did the harpsichord for Manon’s apotheosis as a courtesan in Act 3 and an organ for the church of St. Sulpice.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 17, 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
For Johnson to now be speaker of the House feels as if it is the apotheosis of his political career and aspirations.
From Salon ● Dec. 21, 2023
In the Civil Rights Movement timeline, 1965 is often seen as the apotheosis, the crowning moment.
From Slate ● Oct. 31, 2023
He was no ordinary scholar, this man, but the apotheosis of scholars: the most famous personage in Zosma, save the queen and the hierarch, and the most popular, bar none.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
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
The result is that he has plenty of apotheoses.
From Napoleon the Little by Victor Hugo
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
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