omnipotence
Example Sentences
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That tension between omnipotence and powerlessness is captured in a word: adolescence.
From Salon
In Mr. Anderson’s account of the fall of Iran’s shah in 1979, both the Iranian government and most of the Americans on the ground have a false sense of American omnipotence.
People who scored higher on the scale had greater control, which correlated with lower measures of hallucination severity and lower perceived malevolence and omnipotence of the voices.
From Salon
Mockery has often been a useful tool among the many needed to deflate the posture of omnipotence that actual and aspiring autocrats like to adopt.
From Salon
Breton argued instead for embracing the “omnipotence of dreams” and exploring the unconscious and all that was “marvelous” in life.
From New York Times
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