Sentence examples for own deity from inspiring English sources

You call him "Mammon's own deity" ("No recount at the Fed", November 18th).

Dark Star (John Carpenter, 1974) Astronauts amble through space with a talking bomb with delusions of its own deity in this low budget cult classic.

Inheritance and succession are based on patrilineal descent; members of the patrilineage live together under the authority of a headman, share certain names and taboos, worship their own deity, and have rights in lineage lands.

Marjane's own deity of choice is Bruce Lee (courtesy of her cosmopolitan parents, who do little to curb her tastes), and there is a lovely sequence in which seedy loiterers offer her bootlegs of Michael Jackson and Iron Maiden, as if Western bands were drugs.

When one of Noe's daughters-in-law rescues two babies, "shriveled and black as bats," before the flood begins, the miracle of their survival causes one idolatrous tribesman to ditch his own deity and say "I'd very much like to meet this Yahweh of yours".

My brain is treating the music like a universe of complexity and investing that universe with its own deity, for whom I feel some measure of awe and reverence.

Over time, various communities emerged with their own deities, rituals and tools.

Each week, we tend to our own deities in these pages, and sometimes that devotion might blind us to better stories elsewhere.

Many indigenous people, especially given the persecution and forced conversions, found it prudent to fuse the imported Catholic saints with their own deities.

But while Preacher is a treat, camped out in the desert and howling to nameless ancient gods, you don't want to under­estimate the locals, who have their own deities to answer to.

The people here are semi-nomadic Drokpas – they speak a different dialect, have their own deities, wear a singular style of dress.