Sentence examples for godlike powers from inspiring English sources

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.

In short, by the dawn of the 22nd century man shall, in the eyes of his early 21st-century forebears, wield godlike powers.

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.

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.

Prosecutors at Dr. Shipman's trial argued that his drive to kill was fueled by a desire for godlike power over life and death.