For Jaeger, the charisma of the visual arts, literature, and film functions by creating an exalted semblance of life, a realm of beauty, sublime emotions, heroic motives and deeds, godlike bodies and actions, and superhuman abilities, so as to dazzle the humbled spectator and lift him or her up into the place so represented.
An imposing godlike figure, his body illuminated in flashing lights, brings on a scale, placing two tiny gold bottles onto one tray.
He is just an ordinary, godlike boy.
In the Enchiridion, which is regularly described as the work where Platonic influence is strongest, he endorses a dualism between a godlike soul and a physical body similar to the body of any animal.
The courage in taking an enormous, cracked block of marble, attacking it directly, and winning over its weakness, the godlike anatomy of David's body, the turn of his head, the anxiety in his eyes, his glance disguising his fear is unsurpassed in art.
It is no lessening of our dignity as humans, let alone our rationality and liberty as humans, if we exercise these "godlike" gifts in the context of bodies that are fragile and mortal and a world that we do not completely control.
They have used their advanced technology to provide themselves with weaponry that gives them godlike powers, and to transfer their minds to new bodies when the ones they're occupying wear out.
And participation goes by nearness: the Soul nearer than the body, therefore closer akin, participates more fully and shows a godlike presence, almost cheating us into the delusion that in the Soul we see God entire.
Post-war scholarship has shone a belated spotlight on the bodies, minds and groups excluded from the ideal realm of those exquisitely fashioned, godlike statues.
