“In the teachings of the Sophists may be traced a tendency to apotheosize the 'atomic' individual.”

“Never before had it entered the mind of any poet thus to apotheosize the lady of his affections.”

“The Cultural Revolution was essentially a revitalization movement, a kind of millenarian movement designed to purify, intensify, and apotheosize.”

“The conflicts of the time have been forgotten as this embittered old man has been apotheosised into an elder statesman.”

“So etherealised by spirit as he was, and so apotheosised by worshipping admirers, did his footsteps, in the procession, really tread upon the dust of earth?”

“On the one hand, the dead men are apotheosized and made into martyrs for a great cause, as part of an ongoing effort to whip up enthusiasm for the war within the public.”

“But his ingenuous one-world sentiments are apotheosized into truth by the strength of his melodic gifts and a voice that's still sweet and grainy when it needs to be.”

“On Feb. 1, the ayatollah, as if apotheosized, returned home triumphantly from France to joy and subsequent years of then-unimagined absolute power and ruthless change.”