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  • This is the fifth race whose apotheosis we have watched.†   (source)
  • And at that instant Sophie emerged from the bathroom, a faint flush still on her cheeks, but composed, even radiant, all the lovely components of her face reunited in a merry apotheosis of American dentistry.†   (source)
  • Virginity isn't an apotheosis.†   (source)
  • "The word apotheosis literally means 'divine transformation'—that of man becoming God.†   (source)
  • This is the moment of his apotheosis …. his transformation into a god.†   (source)
  • He sat up slowly beneath the Apotheosis.†   (source)
  • Slowly he raised his eyes again to the Apotheosis.†   (source)
  • Such was the ancient promise of apotheosis.†   (source)
  • The Apotheosis is also a circumpunct?†   (source)
  • Langdon gazed up again at the image of The Apotheosis of Washington—the symbolic ascent of man to deity.†   (source)
  • For most people, The Apotheosis of Washington got stranger and stranger the longer they looked at it.†   (source)
  • He had reflected on it while talking to Galloway and also at the Capitol Building while trying to explain The Apotheosis of Washington.†   (source)
  • "This ceiling is absolutely amazing," Katherine marveled, her neck craned to take in the enormous splendor of the Apotheosis overhead.†   (source)
  • She was now halfway around the circumference, admiring every inch of Brumidi's The Apotheosis of Washington, which loomed directly over their heads.†   (source)
  • Langdon had to admit, not many frescoes in the world fused scientific inventions with mythical gods and human apotheosis.†   (source)
  • As his eyes began to close again, he found himself staring at three words in Latin, painted within the Apotheosis.†   (source)
  • "Ma'am," Langdon said, "the largest painting in this building is called The Apotheosis of Washington.†   (source)
  • "Apotheosis means 'to become God'?†   (source)
  • The Ancient Mysteries, as he understood them, were a kind of instruction manual for harnessing the latent power of the human mind …. a recipe for personal apotheosis.†   (source)
  • Despite a career studying mystical symbols and history, Langdon had always struggled intellectually with the idea of the Ancient Mysteries and their potent promise of apotheosis.†   (source)
  • He could not believe he hadn't noticed it before, but the figures in The Apotheosis of Washington were clearly arranged in two concentric rings—a circle within a circle.†   (source)
  • C#21 CHAPTER 21 The Apotheosis of Washington—a 4,664-square-foot fresco that covers the canopy of the Capitol Rotunda—was completed in 1865 by Constantino Brumidi.†   (source)
  • In every culture, in every era, in every corner of the world, the human dream has focused on the same exact concept—the coming apotheosis of man …. the impending transformation of our human minds into their true potentiality.†   (source)
  • Apotheosis.†   (source)
  • Apotheosis?†   (source)
  • Apotheosis.†   (source)
  • A sheaf of centuries ago he imbued me with my duty, although there were errands in between my youth and my apotheosis.†   (source)
  • We lay quietly together for a while, side by side, but soon without a word Sophie presented herself in such a way as to fulfill all my past fantasies in utter apotheosis.†   (source)
  • …the Nazis of which Rubenstein writes (extending Arendt's thesis) is a "society of total domination," evolving directly from the institution of chattel slavery as it was practiced by the great nations of the West, yet urged on to its despotic apotheosis at Auschwitz through an innovative concept which by contrast casts a benign light on old-fashioned plantation slavery even at its most barbaric: this blood-fresh concept was based on the simple but absolute expendability of human life.†   (source)
  • So etherealised by spirit as he was, and so apotheosised by worshipping admirers, did his footsteps, in the procession, really tread upon the dust of earth?†   (source)
  • Part 1 Chapter 2 Subsection 5 — Apotheosis.†   (source)
  • They are peaceful, as though they have escaped into an apotheosis; his own is among them.†   (source)
  • In appearance, dress, and manner he is the apotheosis of the assistant hotel manager, about Chance's age, thin, blond— haired, trim blond moustache, suave, boyish, betraying an instinct for murder only by the ruby-glass studs in his matching cuff-links and tie-clip.†   (source)
  • It was as if all their individual five senses had become one organ of looking, like an apotheosis, the words that flew among them wind- or air-engendered Is that him?†   (source)
  • Had it come to him at that moment, an awakened memory of childhood, a dream in the nursery—"When I'm grown up I'll sleep in the Queen's bed in the Chinese drawing-room"—the apotheosis of adult grandeur?†   (source)
  • …to the mind, the intellect which weighs and discards, but striking instead straight and true to some primary blind and mindless foundation of all young male living dream and hope—a row of faces like a bazaar of flowers, the supreme apotheosis of chattelry, of human flesh bred of the two races for that sale—corridor of doomed and tragic flower faces walled between the grim duenna row of old women and the elegant shapes of young men trim predatory and (at the moment) goatlike:…†   (source)
  • The triumph may be rcpresented as the hero's sexual union with the goddess-mother of the world (sacred marriage), his recognition by the father-creator (father atonement), his own divinization (apotheosis), or again—if the powers have remained unfriendly to him—his theft of the boon he came to gain (bride-theft, fire-theft); intrinsically it is an expansion of consciousness and therewith of being (illumination, transfiguration, freedom).†   (source)
  • Listening, he seems to hear within it the apotheosis of his own history, his own land, his own environed blood: that people from which he sprang and among whom he lives who can never take either pleasure or catastrophe or escape from either, without brawling over it.†   (source)
  • …"The Road of Trials," or the dangerous aspect of the gods z "The Meeting with the Goddess" (Magna Mater), or the bliss of infancy regained 3 "Woman as the Temptress," the realization and agony of Oedipus 4 "Atonement with the Father"5 "Apotheosis" 6 "The Ultimate Boon" The return and reintegration with society, which is indispensable to the continuous circulation of spiritual energy into the world, and which, from the standpoint of the community, is the justification of the long…†   (source)
  • He sees himself a shadowy figure among shadows, paradoxical, with a kind of false optimism and egoism believing that he would find in that part of the Church which most blunders, dreamrecovering, among the blind passions and the lifted hands and voices of men, that which he had failed to find in the Church's cloistered apotheosis upon earth.†   (source)
  • Up from the spray of thy ocean-perishing—straight up, leaps thy apotheosis!†   (source)
  • What an apotheosis!†   (source)
  • She disappeared in a kind of sulphurous apotheosis, and when a few years later Medora again came back to New York, subdued, impoverished, mourning a third husband, and in quest of a still smaller house, people wondered that her rich niece had not been able to do something for her.†   (source)
  • You will have an apotheosis.†   (source)
  • Your goal is a democratic empire, the world-state, the apotheosis of the principle of the nation-state on a universal plane.†   (source)
  • As He did so, troubling the waters of our civilization, one prisoner would be released, and then He would proceed to the great Mau tank that stretched as far as the Guest House garden, where something else would happen, some final or subsidiary apotheosis, after which He would submit to the experience of sleep.†   (source)
  • It was depravity with the best of consciences, the idealized apotheosis of a total refusal to obey Western demands for an active life.†   (source)
  • In open-mouthed wonder the lama turned to this and that, and finally checked in rapt attention before a large alto-relief representing a coronation or apotheosis of the Lord Buddha.†   (source)
  • Thus a mild sort of apotheosis took place in his fancy, whilst she still lived and breathed within his own horizon, a troubled creature like himself.†   (source)
  • To him she stood outside those fleshly attributes from which he had nothing to obtain, and in his heart she rose ever, and became farther removed from him after the magnificent manner of an apotheosis that is taking wing.†   (source)
  • She went to the boot-room where her pattens had hung ever since her apotheosis; took them down, had their mildewed leathers blacked, and put them on as she had done in old times.†   (source)
  • They laugh and hunt, and there is in the air the brilliance of an apotheosis—what a transfiguration effected by love!†   (source)
  • Probably satisfied with his reply to the apotheosis, he had just taken his departure, and all, with the exception of Enjolras, had followed him.†   (source)
  • People vociferate, shout, howl, there they break forth and writhe with enjoyment; gayety roars; sarcasm flames forth, joviality is flaunted like a red flag; two jades there drag farce blossomed forth into an apotheosis; it is the triumphal car of laughter.†   (source)
  • And on that altar, and in that glory, the two apotheoses mingling, in the background, one knows not how, behind a cloud for Cosette, in a flash for Marius, there was the ideal thing, the real thing, the meeting of the kiss and the dream, the nuptial pillow.†   (source)
  • He wouldbe sort of grand too, pulling in lonely state across the noon, rowinghimself right out ofnoon, up the long bright air like an apotheosis, mounting into a drowsing infinity where only he and the gull, the one terrificallymotionless, the other in a steadyand measured pull and recover that partook of inertia itself, the world punily beneath their shadows on the sun.†   (source)
  • …not lyingnow either but you are still blind to whatis in yourself to that part of general truth the sequence ofnatural events and their causes which shadows every mansbrow even benjys youare not thinking of finitude you are contemplating an apotheosis in which a temporary state of mind willbecome symmetricalabove the flesh and aware both ofitself and of the flesh it will not quite discard you will not even be dead and i temporary and he you cannotbear to think that someday it will no…†   (source)
  • Julius Caesar, and other Emperors after him, had the like Testimony; that is, were Canonized for Saints; now defined; and is the same with the Apotheosis of the Heathen.†   (source)
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