deification
Example Sentences
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There is also a general deification of the mercurial director, who’s going to break you down and build you up, because that’s the theater.
From New York Times
But this deification was rooted in the wishful thinking that there was something ordinary citizens could do to protect the fragile justice, much like the New Yorkers who rally around an exhausted or outnumbered Spider-Man.
From Washington Post
“They show North Koreans that their country’s personality cult and its deification of the Kim family are all built on lies.”
From New York Times
If there were two dangers implicit in 2014 that have become explicit now, they are the dangers of concentration of power and the deification and personification of one leader.
From The New Yorker
With Japan’s surrender came many changes, including an end of the modern era deification of emperors.
From Washington Times
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