godhead

Example Sentences

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To his cult followers, he functions as a type of godhead whom they love and to whom they constantly express devotion.

From Salon • Oct. 5, 2020

Bombshell focuses on the events precipitating the fall of the Fox godhead, tracing the expansion of the whisper network of women in the workplace that led to his deposing.

From The Guardian • Dec. 10, 2019

Mr. Schulz, as unassuming a man as he was, was a veritable godhead, revered in those divided times by Americans of all stripes.

From New York Times • Jan. 13, 2018

And yet, though Thiel hovers above Wolfe’s narrative like an Oz-like godhead, he is barely a presence in it, except when he’s the recipient of its adulation.

From Slate • Feb. 9, 2017

Her rank was so transcendent that she brought into her husband's family a measure of the godhead of her ancestors, and her descendants have thenceforth reverenced her forefathers in preference to those of her husband.

From The Fijians A Study of the Decay of Custom by Thomson, Basil