Sentence examples for urge to deify from inspiring English sources
Our urge to deify is now being overtaken by our urge to render human.
It is easy to deify in the presence of death.
This crimped conception flows directly from the modern American propensity to deify the free market.
It is shameful to deify men who put nationalist ritual before children.
Mandela media coverage has a somewhat saccharine tendency to deify South Africa's most famous son.
Prosperiti, however, needs to pay keener attention to political details if it is to deify President Putin properly and patriotically.
"The God-builders believed a true revolutionary must aim to deify humanity, an enterprise that includes the abolition of death".
When Hadrian died soon thereafter, Antoninus succeeded and induced a reluctant Senate to deify the deceased emperor.
The extravagance of funeral rites was surpassed, in some societies, by ceremonies to deify a departed chief or priest.
To deify him is, in a way, to reduce his achievement and to remove the radicalism from it.
Not for nothing does Richard Reeves describe Mill as having a "lifelong mission to deify Harriet" (2007, 206 7).
