omnipotence
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The pope described the Kingdom of God as a "bulwark against that delusion of omnipotence that surrounds us and is becoming increasingly unpredictable and aggressive."
From Barron's • Apr. 11, 2026
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.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 12, 2025
What it emphatically cannot mean is acceding to powerlessness in the face of a bunch of institutions that are working to make it seem as if their omnipotence is inevitable, or irrevocable, or constitutionally overdetermined.
From Slate • Jul. 21, 2025
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 • Oct. 17, 2024
My wickedness five years ago, or six, or twelve, has no existence except as now, mumbling, mumbling, sacrificing the slain world to the omnipotence of words, I strain my memory to regain it.
From "Grendel" by John Gardner
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A Brief History of Time
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