Sentence examples for deity so from inspiring English sources

And why is this proud, thundering deity so different from the cold executive of the opening and closing sections?

Native-place ties were frequently expressed in worship of a deity, so that a temple or territorial cult would become a vehicle for collective action.

The offered meal gives strength to the deity so that he may repeat his feats and give aid to the sacrificer.

The pope had implied, for example, that Muslims believed in a deity so far beyond all categories such as goodness or rationality that God could as easily be cruel and irrational as merciful or peaceloving.

From Hillarycare, Whitewater, Travelgate, Monica Lewinsky and the bruising presidential primaries in 2008, she rebounded to where she is today, a Democratic deity so revered that the 2016 nomination is presumed hers if she wants it.

The founder was probably a Brahmin trader from western India; for a local legend describes how the first king, a Brahmin, married the daughter of a local serpent deity, so establishing the ruling family.

And though I don't pretend to know squat about Buddhism, and am very content to remain ignorant on the subject, I do know that Buddhism's defining feature is it has no deity, no god, so whatever Tutankhamun, or whatever the gibberish Featherbrain was spilling is, it ain't God, nor Allah.

As burning is often the appropriate mode for sacrifice to celestial deities, so burial is often the appropriate mode for sacrifice to earth deities.

As the state religion of that time robustly incorporated and strangely tolerated local deities, so did state power resolve into overlapping arrangements, direct and indirect, ceremonial and actual, between various clients, enforcers, frenemies, puppets, and custodians along a deep margin.

As he also discovered, the Manchus venerated many Buddhist deities, so much that he hypothesized that northeast Asian shamanism was an outgrowth of Buddhism.

If he thinks that the conception of deity is so obscure or so permissive that no truth value can be ascribed to 'God exists', perhaps he should extend the notion of 'atheist' to cover his position also.