apotheosize
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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
It is not an attempt to construct a political history, with Lincoln often in the background, nor is it an effort to apotheosize the American who stands first in our history next to Washington.
From General Scott by Marcus Joseph Wright
Yet he maintained that apotheosized idea of the city, born from those formative years of consuming “Talk of the Town” items and witticisms from Algonquin alumni.
From New York Times ● Dec. 14, 2021
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
The movie's obvious forebear is The Godfather, which apotheosized the dirty dealings of statesmen and Mafiosi in the richly upholstered, 10-watt throne room of Hades.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was thus apotheosized, and took his place among the gods of China.
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
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