apotheosis

Other up-and-coming swing-state Democrats are famous for taking after Barack Obama, the apotheosis of the elite American success aesthetic, to a sometimes embarrassing degree.

“The Outrun” feels like the apotheosis of that phase of her run, a movie that offers an intimate sense of catharsis, particularly for those who have been affected by addiction.

This revisionist history reached its apotheosis with a 2007 essay collection edited by the historians Kenneth T. Jackson and Hilary Ballon.

Who among us wouldn’t like a fun-loving Momala to meme into political apotheosis?

The apotheosis of this snowballing rediscovery — or “discovery,” as Guryan, who died in 2021, preferred to say — arrives this week with “Words and Music,” a lavish collection of recordings, many previously unreleased, from the boutique label Numero Group.