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the instant deification by the press of the country's newest war hero
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Maybe columnist Bill Plaschke and others can now stop the deification of Caleb Williams.
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Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2023
Whether a dead emperor was made a god depended not so much on his worthiness as on how useful his deification was to the man who came after him.
—Mary Beard, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023
The deification of emperors was fairly standard practice at the time, and the spoof claimed to lift the lid on what really happened during the process.
—Mary Beard, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023
Bookstores still held their ground here among the shopfronts, and the deification of French writers living and dead was evinced everywhere in street names and statues and advertising hoardings for new novels.
—Rachel Cusk, New York Times, 2 May 2023
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Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2023
Whether a dead emperor was made a god depended not so much on his worthiness as on how useful his deification was to the man who came after him.
—Mary Beard, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023
The deification of emperors was fairly standard practice at the time, and the spoof claimed to lift the lid on what really happened during the process.
—Mary Beard, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023
Bookstores still held their ground here among the shopfronts, and the deification of French writers living and dead was evinced everywhere in street names and statues and advertising hoardings for new novels.
—Rachel Cusk, New York Times, 2 May 2023
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“Deification.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/deification. Accessed 7 Sep. 2024.
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