Sentence examples for godlike power from inspiring English sources

The story's only truly super-powered being, Manhattan gains godlike power over matter and space-time after being caught in an experiment; the character is the vehicle for Watchmen's most trenchant interrogations of how superhumans might actually be used by governments (basically, as weapons).

The promise of immortality gives Leibovitz a godlike power.

To bring species back from extinction or from its brink is a godlike power.

Snyder's reboot of Superman asked us to consider what responsibilities a man with godlike power would be willing to accept.

But Mr. Godard discovered a different sort of sovereignty over the audience: the godlike power of capriciousness, of a serene indifference to the spectator's ease.

The poet was credited with the godlike power that Plato had feared in him; Transcendental philosophy was, indeed, a derivative of Plato's metaphysical Idealism.

He has ascribed to me some magical, godlike powers.

And this time her message is alarmingly dire: science is fast acquiring dangerous and godlike powers.

The Greeks warned about the danger of grasping for godlike powers.

In his new novel, Saramago again asks us to reflect on the storyteller's godlike powers.

Because even as the book has humans gaining godlike powers, that is only one eventuality Harari explores.