demigod

Example Sentences

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I saw the Brazilian soccer demigod Pelé play in person a few times and have watched innumerable clips of his greatest hits.

From Los Angeles Times

Tumbling down the well-worn staircase from brilliant to colorful to embattled to disgraced, Bankman-Fried landed in a pile of battered demigods.

From Washington Post

“A new writer, if he’s a great poet like Hofmannsthal, walks among us like a demigod,” Stoppard has a character say.

From New York Times

Marcel will come to a similar conclusion at the end of the novel, seeing the aristocratic elites who dazzled him in his youth as mediocrities, elevated to the status of demigods by his imagination.

From Salon

After all these years of being treated like a demigod, he likely didn't expect to have to get down in the dirt and fight for the nomination.

From Salon