Sentence examples for confer immortality from inspiring English sources

"He believed his works would confer immortality on him".

The alchemists of old sought to transmute base metals into gold and to invent a potion that would confer immortality.

Chinese Taoists not only sought the "pill of immortality" but developed techniques (meditation, breathing exercises, diet) that were thought to confer immortality by internal alchemy.

Two similar and related rites involving plants, the haoma, noted in the Avesta (ancient Zoroastrian scriptures), and the soma, noted in the Vedas (orthodox scriptures of Hinduism), pertain to the ritual production of exalted beverages presumed to confer immortality.

Recently hCGβ has been shown to confer immortality features to cells by inhibiting apoptosis (Butler et al, 2000).

Although telomerase is activated in most tumor cells to counteract telomere erosion and confer immortality, telomeres in tumor cells can still be abnormally short and dysfunctional.

As a teenaged girl she dreamed that mother-of-pearl conferred immortality.

The ancient Greeks wrote about ambrosia, the food of the gods, which conferred immortality on whoever consumed it.

Count Lilac intervenes, conferring immortality on the young gamekeeper by the familiar expedient of sinking his teeth into his jugular.

Somehow, Ms. Subrin confers immortality on her subject while at the same time making vivid her irrevocable absence.

Elysium, also called Elysian Fields or Elysian Plain, in Greek mythology, originally the paradise to which heroes on whom the gods conferred immortality were sent.