Sentence examples for actual deity from inspiring English sources

No actual deity treads the stage, but the uncanny and the divine are strong forces in the play.

On the South Pacific island of Tanna, Prince Philip is an actual deity, worshipped by the Kastom people.

13 "Eros" statue at Piccadilly Circus: actual deity depicted; made from; sculptor; dedicated to (Earl of Shaftesbury).

We've known that it's all about the Benjamins for the last 20 years, but Ukrainian artist Yurko Dyachyshyn takes that truism to new heights in his series Saint Franklin, which elevates the Founding Father from mere monetary symbol to actual deity.

The trouble is that when actors come to see themselves not as well-paid intermediaries but as actual deities (and everything in popular culture encourages them to do so), their power fades.

"I don't believe anyone believes in a one-eyed man who is riding about on a horse with eight feet," Business Insider quoted Hilmarsson as saying of the actual deities involved.

The whole world, which will possess the quality of deity, does not yet exist, but part of it does: "As an actual existent, God is the infinite world with its nisus towards deity" (Alexander 1920ii: 353).

The creatures moving and speaking have been actual creations of the deity, with the strange exception of Medusa.

Although a few Vaishnava philosophical schools may consider the image in the temple to be a symbol pointing to the supreme being, most devotees perceive it as an actual manifestation of the deity, a form that he takes to make himself accessible to human beings.

Some have been so closely associated with the divine or the sacred that they have been considered either a symbolic manifestation of the deity or an actual manifestation of the deity itself.

Men often symbolize phallic, aggressive supernatural beings and rain-bringing deities, whereas women symbolize actual fertility.