How to Use apotheosis in a Sentence

apotheosis

noun

• In many ways Madoff was just sort of the apotheosis of the Wilpon era, right?
  — Joe Delessio, Curbed, 15 Apr. 2021
• The music is bright as the young lovers leave the stage in an Orphic apotheosis.
  — Joshua Barone, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2018
• That it's all based in fact marks All the President's Men as the apotheosis of the '70s paranoid thriller.
  — Tyler Aquilina, EW.com, 27 June 2021
• All that conduct reached its apotheosis with the Big Lie — that Biden stole the election.
  — Washington Post, 22 Feb. 2021
• Disney’s latest film is both an apotheosis and a nadir of the form.
  — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 2 June 2021
• As this writer wrote once, Warhol showed us that the apotheosis and the burlesque of Whitman’s dream turned out to look more or less the same.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 21 July 2022
• The Bo-Kaap is arguably the apotheosis of modern Cape Town.
  — Richard Quest and Joe Minehane, CNN, 4 Apr. 2023
• The Birkin bag is the apotheosis of fancy purse culture.
  — Eliza Brooke, Vox, 22 Aug. 2018
• The gig economy was supposed to be the apotheosis of that shift.
  — Neil Irwin, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2019
• Reading the audio book of my own memoir was, in a sense, the apotheosis of writing it.
  — Michael Frank, The Atlantic, 5 June 2017
• The volatile reaction to the Mar-a-Lago raid confirmed a kind of apotheosis for Trump.
  — Jelani Cobb, The New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2022
• And then Rosemary, the spirit, is the apotheosis of Rosemary the person.
  — Lauren Huff, EW.com, 27 Mar. 2022
• On the left, there's an enormous investment in the idea that Trump isn't a break with conservatism but the apotheosis of it.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 7 Mar. 2018
• Today, the loose-limbed Fred Astaire has reached near-apotheosis as an on-screen star.
  — Lili Rosenkranz, Town & Country, 3 July 2014
• The attack on the Capitol was a predictable apotheosis of a months-long ferment.
  — Luke Mogelson, The New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2021
• But in many eyes Davos is the apotheosis of global capitalism, which is on the back foot.
  — The Economist, 16 Jan. 2020
• The dogma that the purpose of soccer is not to succeed, but to survive, now has its apotheosis.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 8 May 2020
• The Irishman feels like an apotheosis, an elegy, and a penance all at once.
  — Jack Hamilton, The Atlantic, 31 Oct. 2019
• The moment, in 2005, when Smith became a triple threat—columnist, radio host, TV host—was a kind of apotheosis.
  — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 16 June 2018
• In Hawaii, the death of Captain James Cook came to be regarded as the tragic apotheosis of a man mistaken for a god.
  — Fara Dabhoiwala, The New York Review of Books, 19 Aug. 2021
• This year’s free agency was the apotheosis of this obsession, as billions of dollars were thrown around like spare change over the course of a few hours.
  — Ben Cohen, WSJ, 10 July 2019
• For both its size (over 8,600 square feet) and breadth, the project is the apotheosis and synthesis of everything the designer has done.
  — Thomas Chatterton Williams, New York Times, 2 Jan. 2020
• It’s kind of the apotheosis of the endcap in digital heaven.
  — David Doty, Forbes, 26 Apr. 2022
• But even with no products, no makeup, an no extra zhuzh, Tracee and Gabi are the apotheosis of melanin magic.
  — Shalwah Evans, Essence, 29 Oct. 2019
• Wokeism achieved its apotheosis in 2014, in the aftermath of Michael Brown’s shooting.
  — Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 16 Oct. 2020
• The quirkiness of the internet and web’s design was the apotheosis of ensuring that the perfect would not be the enemy of the good.
  — Jonathan Zittrain, The Atlantic, 30 June 2021
• The zero-waste lifestyle might just be reaching its apotheosis in our era.
  — Dakota Kim, Sunset Magazine, 10 Feb. 2020
• To feel all four tires leave the ground as one’s turbocharged chariot hurtles over the canyon in a Blu-ray apotheosis of brainless splendor.
  — Garret Keizer, Harper's Magazine, 17 Aug. 2021
• The author herself seems to know that there are more enduring means of mythmaking than the apotheosis of teenage boys.
  — Hermione Hoby, New York Times, 26 May 2017
• The success of Trump is the apotheosis of that development.
  — Charles Isherwood, Town & Country, 30 May 2017

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