apotheosis

in a sentence

"Everyone's freaking out?' said Sean, "the refs are screaming, their whole team is wanting to fight, and he's totally calm, like he's out for a Sunday stroll:' Technically, it was Hugh's job to talk to Michael, as, since Michael's apotheosis, Hugh had taken a special interest in the offensive line.†  (source) Michael Lewis, The Blind Side, 2006

In the midst of the excitement of the family the scandalization of Ursula, the joy of the people cramming the street to watch that apotheosis of squandering.†  (source) Gabriel Garcia Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude, 1967

Apotheosis.†  (source) Don DeLillo, Underworld, 1997

Maester Thomax's Dragonkin, Being a History of House Targaryen from Exile to Apotheosis, with a Consideration of the Life and Death of Dragons had not been so fortunate.†  (source) George R. R. Martin, A Feast For Crows, 2005

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) Victor Hugo, Les Miserables, 1862

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) Nathanial Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, 1850

I cannot depend upon my memory to say that even his Desecnt from the Cross or his Apotheosis of the Virgin exceeded these measures.†  (source) David McCullough, John Adams, 2002

As a way to arrive at the truth, exactitude and methodology are, in the end, far inferior to vision and apotheosis.†  (source) Mark Helprin, A Soldier of the Great War, 1991

The desert was the apotheosis of all deserts, huge, standing to the sky for what might have been parsecs in all directions.†  (source) Stephen King, The Gunslinger, 1981

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) William Styron, Sophie's Choice, 1976

In the barracks, the grand forgetfulness had begun among the freshmen as we recognized the imminence of our apotheosis from plebes to upperclassmen.†  (source) Pat Conroy, The Lords of Discipline, 1980

This is the fifth race whose apotheosis we have watched.†  (source) Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood's End, 1953

Virginity isn't an apotheosis.†  (source) Alfred Bester, The Demolished Man, 1953