deifying

Example Sentences

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It is certainly true that at some point we, as a culture, must stop deifying people whose work, message or backstory we admire.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 23, 2023

The deifying worked well enough when Stoops, a self-described “program guy,” ruled Norman.

From New York Times • Nov. 29, 2021

“They are not perfect. They are not perfect. We have to stop deifying them,” Mr. Lemon said.

From Washington Times • Jul. 9, 2020

One is a pitch-dark, but also visually cute, animated series that has perfected, by not deifying or lauding, the antihero, who this season was even more explicitly shown to be a #MeToo creep.

From Slate • Dec. 15, 2018

The earnest hope that this moral crisis can somehow be met by deifying nature itself is an evidence of the spiritual and intellectual desperation that the crisis has engendered.

From The Prosperity of Humankind by Baha'i International Community