All 10 Uses of
divine
in
Life of Pi
- for everything has a trace of the divine in it.
Chpt 13-16 *divine = coming from the gods; or god-like
- But divinity should not be blighted by death.†
Chpt 17-20
- Even Rama, that most human of avatars, who had to be reminded of his divinity when he grew long-faced over the struggle to get Sita, his wife, back from Ravana, evil king of Lanka, was no slouch.†
Chpt 17-20
- What could justify such divine stinginess?†
Chpt 17-20
- I find his divinity utterly compelling.†
Chpt 17-20
- I take pen and paper out and write: Words of divine consciousness: moral exaltation; ' lasting feelings of elevation, elation, joy; a quickening of the moral sense, which strikes one as more important than an intellectual understanding of things; an alignment of the universe along moral lines, not intellectual ones; a realization that the founding principle of existence is what we call love, which works itself out sometimes not clearly, not cleanly, not immediately, nonetheless…†
Chpt 21-24
- Those were drooling epileptic fits brought on by the swaying of his camel, not divine revelation.†
Chpt 21-24
- The divining rod in my mind dipped sharply and a spring gushed water when I remembered that I was on a genuine, regulation lifeboat and that such a lifeboat was surely outfitted with supplies.†
Chpt 49-52 *
- I wore these spots of shine and silver like tilaks, the marks of colour that we Hindus wear on our foreheads as symbols of the divine.†
Chpt 65-68
- This is an outbreak of divinity.†
Chpt 85-88
Definitions:
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(divine as in: to forgive is divine) wonderful; or god-like or coming from God
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(divine as in: divined from tea leaves) to predict or discover something supernaturally (as if by magic)