If density is the soul of the city, this is its spiritual or, better, commercial apotheosis. |
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William Blake's engravings at the end of his career are the apotheosis of engraving as a creative linear technique. |
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The religious zealots see rai music as the apotheosis of a secular culture they consider lewd and impious. |
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In the realm of modern pop, it achieved a level of perfection that made it the apotheosis of its form. |
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There was an apotheosis in which all three figures were shown entombed, enshrined, mummified together but not entwined. |
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Clarissa's quiet apotheosis is offered as an alternative to histrionic theatrics. |
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Though Shaw was prone to bouts of megalomania, he viewed his apotheosis with amused detachment. |
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The ordinariness of their lives interested me most of all, as if in the quotidian of genius my own humdrum days might find their apotheosis. |
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The apotheosis of Scott's reception, however, is reached in this peroration. |
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Andante maestoso was not an overblown anticlimax but the real apotheosis of Tchaikovsky's musical argument. |
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His famous objection to the apotheosis of the bald eagle as the new nation's symbol is characteristic. |
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Theories of its origin aside though, it should be noted that few modern scholars treat this account of his apotheosis seriously. |
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The apotheosis of the sushi chef's art is the preparation of the highly poisonous fugu fish. |
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More important, allegory was deemed the best vehicle for representing apotheosis, the painter's access to immortal status, an idea integral to the project from the start. |
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Using sports as a means of achieving nationalistic ends reached its apotheosis in the 1936 Olympics. |
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In the political sphere, Gorbachev's ideas are the very apotheosis of Leninism. |
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The Nice summit is to some extent the apotheosis of this sleight-of-hand strategy. |
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When Kim Il Sung himself comes to her farm and praises the collective's success, her love achieves its apotheosis. |
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This is an impressive apotheosis of a penetrating three-part theatrical epic about power, art and politics. |
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We are open to all propositions that might help us complete this great work, a true apotheosis of all that has already been admirably undertaken. |
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That transformation of the brand seems now to have its apotheosis in the arrival of the Tour de France. |
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Dance is a vehicle for personal expression, community storytelling, and the apotheosis of ceremony. |
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If life has such a thing as an apotheosis, it surely involves truffled capon. |
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Over the course of these novels, the style becomes increasingly parsimonious, reaching its apotheosis in The Golden Bowl. |
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This kind of combat reached its apotheosis when the guest was an insurance swindler called emile Savundra. |
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It's ironic that this apotheosis of flash over substance comes at a time when the public is hungering for greater perspective and deeper understanding. |
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He was described as the apotheosis of mediocrity by MacArthur, but he was much wiser and shrewder. |
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Whether she liked it or not, Rue reached her professional apotheosis on the lanai. |
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I was not persuaded, however, that the look in whole or in part was intended as an apotheosis of the President: warhorse as clotheshorse. |
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These triumphs were seen as the apotheosis of human enterprise and might. |
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And the apotheosis is complete, an ascension into an empty cloud. |
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Thank you for all those wonderful days of grace, days of apotheosis this time, days that enlighten us, revive our fervor and fortify us to continue on our way. |
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Yet the German press hailed this show as the apotheosis of her approach: the cinematic surveillance brought out the Gothic paranoia of Gilman's 19th-century short story. |
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My Taste for apotheosis is unfortunately in conflict with an amniotic melancholy, which darkens any solar impulses and throws into disorder any apollonian ambitions. |
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However the apotheosis of the city's courtyards came with the Baroque in the 17th and 18th centuries, with scenographic spaces, presided over by convex columns, galleries with heraldic devices and imperial stairways. |
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When you will be at the Ecrins' refuge, Laurent, the guardian, will certainly start his traditional welcome speech... The third day, will be the apotheosis at the top of the Dome des Ecrins. |
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Some were hoping for apotheosis at Jerusalem, or forgiveness from God for all their sins. |
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Oliver Treadwell represents Miss Glasgow's apotheosis of compromise, and the more shoddy in the unflickering light of his wife's devotion. |
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A broad, heroic melody is proudly proclaimed by the woodwinds, a theme that returns later in the darker colors of unison strings and leads into the symphony's magnificent apotheosis in the heroic key of E-flat major. |
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The portico was preceded by a Temple dedicated to Minerva, the goddess who protected Domitian. Her death would have ensured the apotheosis of the gods, as had already been the case of Hercules. |
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On the left is a great historical relief from the Arch of Portugal: it depicts the apotheosis of the Empress Sabina, who was the wife of Hadrian and deified after her death. |
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The cosmic dimension of salvation has been most evident in the Eastern Church, which has traditionally looked forward to the return of all things to God by a process of apotheosis or deification. |
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In an interview at Cannes Lavant, who has starred in four of Carax's five features, described Holy Motors as the apotheosis of their long collaboration. |
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