The word 'apotheosis' is correct and usable in written English.
It is a noun that describes the highest point of something or a perfect example of something. For example, "The beautiful sunrise was the apotheosis of nature's beauty."
That was the year of the formal collapse of the Soviet Union, and the apotheosis of what became known as "bourgeois triumphalism".
The rape jokes which are its apotheosis don't represent uncontrolled lust – they're the aggression bred by lost entitlement and the need for someone to blame.
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.
It was the 19th century which dreamt up Christmas as a holiday to embody our ideals of what childhood should be, but it finds its 20th-century apotheosis here, in this beautiful, wordless and entirely unsentimental picture book.
Yet in 1985 she put her feelings aside and signed the Anglo-Irish Agreement, devolving some power to Northern Ireland and preparing the way for a later peace settlement.That year was perhaps the apotheosis of Mrs Thatcher's premiership.
Or why Taylorism was seen as the apotheosis of the industrial revolution, and why "just-in-time" delivery is such a big deal in modern manufacturing.
The vast ranges of new buildings grafted onto it by the first earl and stamped throughout with his freshly acquired heraldic devices were designed as a fanfare to his dignity, an apotheosis of venerableness.Knole was roughed up in the civil war and requisitioned by Parliament for its regional headquarters.
His apotheosis, it now seems, has led only to agony.
Tanger Med is but one mighty symbol that something is stirring along the coastline.In this section The illusion of calm in Tibet The Med's moment comes Reprints Related items The Mediterranean economy: Club MedJul 10th 2008 France and the European Union presidency: Nicolas Sarkozy’s European apotheosis Jun 26th 2008This is not the story usually told about the Mediterranean's poorer coasts.
Instead of viewing the piece as the apotheosis of symphonic thinking as so many of Beethoven's biographers and critics have done in the past Mr Buch locates it in a tradition of popular, patriotic song-writing that has its roots in national anthems, like "God Save the Queen", and such revolutionary tunes as the "Marseillaise".
A great deal was made of the difficulty of even matching the results of four years ago, as if 1999 had marked some kind of never-to-be-repeated apotheosis of Conservatism.Never mind that to make even a fight of the next general election, the Tories would need to gain, according to Colin Rallings, a psephologist, at least 500 seats.
