Sentence examples for godlike image from inspiring English sources

Within years of the 1917 Russian revolution, a godlike image of the new state's ruler was born.

He worships their captain (played by the slyly virile Samuel R. Gates) whose godlike image appears in television commercials.

If the religion spreads, Eric thinks it could undermine the government's efforts to maintain the image of Kim Jong Un as a godlike figure and topple Juche entirely.

No longer would people accept "a godlike figure from above" presenting the news as "gospel".

Allen's a godlike figure for quirky neurotics who love popcorn and poster sales.

Kim Il-sung, born April 15 , 1912 is revered as a godlike figure in the North.

André is more than a fun-loving and godlike figure.

His profile has remained high, especially with a marble likeness of himself, godlike and creamy, as the image on the cover of the Phillips sale catalog.

The image of Le Corbusier hovering godlike above Paris ready to wipe aside entire districts and replace them with glass towers remains an emblem of Modernism's attack on the city's historical fabric.

But just as dictators create themselves, very literally, as icons – striving for ubiquity in their image, always expressed in heroic or godlike terms – so is their fall a very literal one, says Pine. "The fallen idol is what we are literally seeing.

In poems written as Owen roamed the backstreets of London and Edinburgh – Wildean visions of "godlike youths" with "blood-red lips" – Hibberd detected images of male prostitutes; and lines such as "I needed, you ceded", he traced the poet's intense, possibly physical relationship with Charles Scott Moncrieff, later famed for his translation of Proust.