How to Use apotheosis in a Sentence

apotheosis

noun
  • That scene at the opera was, for me anyway, the apotheosis of it.
    — Todd Gilchrist, Variety, 26 Apr. 2025
  • Disney’s latest film is both an apotheosis and a nadir of the form.
    — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 2 June 2021
  • The music is bright as the young lovers leave the stage in an Orphic apotheosis.
    — Joshua Barone, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2018
  • In many ways Madoff was just sort of the apotheosis of the Wilpon era, right?
    — Joe Delessio, Curbed, 15 Apr. 2021
  • The gig economy was supposed to be the apotheosis of that shift.
    — Neil Irwin, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2019
  • The zero-waste lifestyle might just be reaching its apotheosis in our era.
    — Dakota Kim, Sunset Magazine, 10 Feb. 2020
  • Claudine Gay was in some respects the apotheosis of this process.
    — Christopher F. Rufo, WSJ, 3 Jan. 2024
  • Reading the audio book of my own memoir was, in a sense, the apotheosis of writing it.
    — Michael Frank, The Atlantic, 5 June 2017
  • But his famous aversion to the label of loser has now reached its apotheosis.
    — Dan Barry, New York Times, 26 Nov. 2020
  • The Irishman feels like an apotheosis, an elegy, and a penance all at once.
    — Jack Hamilton, The Atlantic, 31 Oct. 2019
  • 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
  • But in many eyes Davos is the apotheosis of global capitalism, which is on the back foot.
    — The Economist, 16 Jan. 2020
  • Golden Light is of course the apotheosis, that golden-hour moment.
    — Lily Templeton, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
  • The attack on the Capitol was a predictable apotheosis of a months-long ferment.
    — Luke Mogelson, The New Yorker, 15 Jan. 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
  • This dismissiveness of the law reaches its apotheosis in the world of crypto.
    — Matt Sekerke, National Review, 1 Oct. 2021
  • All that conduct reached its apotheosis with the Big Lie — that Biden stole the election.
    — Washington Post, 22 Feb. 2021
  • As Mia, a barista and wannabe actress, Stone portrayed the apotheosis of a striver.
    — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 10 Mar. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • But even with no products, no makeup, an no extra zhuzh, Ross and Union are the apotheosis of melanin magic.
    — Essence, 29 Oct. 2025
  • 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
  • And then Rosemary, the spirit, is the apotheosis of Rosemary the person.
    — Lauren Huff, EW.com, 27 Mar. 2022
  • His own summits with the two men were, in many ways, the apotheosis of his foreign policy during his four years in the White House.
    — Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 21 June 2024
  • A bit later, Federer and Nadal and Djokovic took over, and people thought that was the game’s apotheosis.
    — Thomas Swick, Sun Sentinel, 6 May 2025
  • That one’s on us—on our tendency to see the Nobel Prize as the apotheosis of scientific worth.
    — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 3 Oct. 2017
  • 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 Gillespie ad — the worst in political history — is merely the apotheosis of the trend.
    — Ben Shapiro, National Review, 1 Nov. 2017
  • 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

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