Sentence examples for almost a divine from inspiring English sources
It is almost a divine mission.
To his countrymen he was to become almost a divine portent, a voice from the Delphic oracle.
People still believe it, and schoolchildren are still taught that there is almost a divine right for the United States to hold the land that it does today".
His wish to share the allegory - and the joys of fishing - with his own people may be "a charming... almost a divine form of madness"; but the madness is infectious.
"Cheney and Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz act like they know all the answers, almost like a divine right," she said.
The intrusion almost feels like a divine intervention, the roaring thwacks of its blades a chilling reminder that the themes we're discussing neoliberal fascism and the increasing militarization of America's law enforcement aren't just abstract concepts, but our living reality.
Percy Harrison Fawcett, Grann writes, was "the last of the great Victorian explorers who ventured into uncharted realms with little more than a machete, a compass and an almost divine sense of purpose".
In the first decades of the twentieth century, Fawcett had been acclaimed as one of the last of the great amateur archeologists and cartographers — men who ventured into uncharted territories with little more than a machete, a compass, and an almost divine sense of purpose.
It is my serious concern that the president, far from being either aloof or humble, has all along thought of himself not as a political leader struggling to make his point of view prevail, but as a man of peace, with an almost divine mission.
In a shot in Milan in 1970, for example, five businessmen gather on an astonishingly long modern stairway against a high wall splashed by sunlight; you feel an almost divine immanence (Johnson).
Written in pencil in two benzedrine-fuelled weeks in his sister Nin's kitchen, Visions of Gerard was called a "pain-tale" by Kerouac: it's the story of an almost divine, Buddha-like child wracked with sickness and suffering.
