Sentence examples for a deity from from inspiring English sources

Contrast this poised 19-year-old high-school dropout with Lou Gehrig, a deity from another age, who actually spent two years on the Columbia University campus.

It was viewed as being: the result of the conscious or unconscious emanation from the transcendent realm; the result of the fall of a deity from the Beyond; the creation of a hostile, ignorant, or evil deity; or a joke or mistake.

It was presumably the only record one heard interrupting the unfailing hilarity of Bamboleo Wednesday and Innuendo Bingo on the Scott Mills show to feature a lyrical reference to Crom, a deity from Robert E Howard's sagas of the Hyborian Age.

Sanskrit for "descent," "avatar" refers to an intentional journey of a deity from heaven to earth.

And architecture critic Paul Goldberger swooped down like a deity from New York, to see for himself and issue judgement for the readers of Vanity Fair.

In the series, people are so blinded by their bigotry and hate for each other that the human race is on the verge of annihilation but is spared by the acts of Christ-like drag queens under the auspices of a deity from outer space.

First revered by nomadic Mongolians as a brilliant military leader who unified warring tribes to found the world's largest empire, the man who was born Temujin but later became known as Genghis Khan, or universal ruler, was mythologized as a shaman before Buddhist monks appropriated him as an incarnation of a deity descended from a line of Indian and Tibetan kings.

They'll assume, perhaps rightly, that Calvin Broadus is a prophet of our time, a deity sent from above.

For her, The Bag Lady is a deity birthed from the accumulation of this mess and is able to create something beautiful from it.

Captain America (Chris Evans) is teased for being an out-of-touch old-timer, Thor for being a longhaired deity from another planet.

In Patrick Kavanagh's long poem The Great Hunger, clay takes on the character of a malevolent deity from the opening line: "Clay is the word and clay is the flesh".