How to Use deification in a Sentence

deification

noun

• But the deification of Kim Jong-un has not yet reached that level.
  — New York Times, 5 June 2019
• This is what makes the deification of the CEO class so revolting.
  — David Dayen, New Republic, 22 Aug. 2017
• How many of us could realize that all the pomp, the noise and the deification was merely a small and fleeting slice of life?
  — Conor Orr, SI.com, 24 Aug. 2019
• Maybe The Ranch is an agent of harm in the world, a shaggy deification of the animus currently ruling over us.
  — Richard Lawson, VanityFair.com, 21 June 2017
• His grandson Naram-Sim would take leadership to the next level, in the form of personal deification.
  — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 27 Aug. 2021
• By this light, the president’s deification is not the strange mania of easy marks, keen to be hoodwinked by a trashy gratifying huckster.
  — Ian Beacock, The New Republic, 6 Dec. 2021
• Even students goofing off in the back should catch on that Neil is still enchanted by the frisson of deification that sometimes descends from heaven into a classroom.
  — Ron Charles, Washington Post, 9 Aug. 2022
• As with the deification of Biggie and 2Pac, Hussle’s death will inevitably produce multiple gospels.
  — Jeff Weiss, Los Angeles Times, 23 Mar. 2021
• Troy and Abed of Community were treated well by their creative team, but were met with equal parts bemusement and horny deification by viewers.
  — Tom Philip, GQ, 17 Aug. 2017
• There’s no deification or celebrity status or false reverence in that way.
  — Liam Hess, Vogue, 25 May 2022
• In this new order, Subin argues, deification would become, at best, heretical and, at worst, nonsensical.
  — Casey Cep, The New Yorker, 6 Dec. 2021
• This post-facto deification often ignores her less-than-generous treatment of the Roman Catholic woman who also had a reasonable claim on the throne of England.
  — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 1 Mar. 2018
• Even the Soviets, who, during Khrushchev’s tenure, turned away from the hagiographic excesses of the Stalinist era, found the deification of the Kim family absurd.
  — Hannah Beech, The New Yorker, 14 May 2017
• But deification can be a form of violence — and heroism can be as isolating and dehumanizing as the trauma of racial violence.
  — Los Angeles Times, 16 June 2021
• Still, within the context of his approach, Kanigel rightly tries to counter some of the deification around Jacobs’s cultural standing, leaving us with a work of wary appreciation that perhaps isn’t quite wary enough.
  — Ginia Bellafante, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2016
• This would become the basis for his posthumous deification (and an endless parade of imitations), making him a god among writers.
  — Nell Casey, Town & Country, 7 Aug. 2013
• The mountain is an important propaganda piece for North Korea, as the Kim dynasty has absorbed its mythology into the family's own lore and deification.
  — Julia Hollingsworth and Yoonjung Seo, CNN, 15 Oct. 2019
• The part also, of course, entailed the depiction of Koresh's automaniacal self-deification, statutory rape, and the on-camera firefight between his parishioners and the FBI.
  — Anna Peele, GQ, 25 Jan. 2018
• There was no altruism here, and no reflexive deification is necessary.
  — Damon Young, GQ, 14 Dec. 2017
• But rather than coast on that deification, the California rapper (whose real name is Thebe Kgositsile) has spent his career defying expectations.
  — Stephen Kearse, Rolling Stone, 14 Jan. 2022
• Sure, this kind of pop-culture deification can lack nuance, but so does tabloid vilification — it’s the pendulum swinging the other way, a necessary overcorrection to decades of the same old misogynist stories.
  — Anna Silman, The Cut, 14 Dec. 2017
• This contrasts with today’s deification of black criminals.
  — Armond White, National Review, 12 Nov. 2021
• By the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, white men colonizing other parts of the world were hardly surprised anymore to encounter similar instances of mistaken deification.
  — Fara Dabhoiwala, The New York Review of Books, 19 Aug. 2021
• Bhumibol’s near deification, critics say, has in part been driven by royalist propaganda and buttressed by strict laws outlawing insults to the monarchy.
  — Washington Post, 22 Oct. 2017
• And then how quickly deification can turn into demonization.
  — Matt Simon, Wired, 1 June 2020
• Just saying Musk’s name in tech, investing, or economic circles evokes a idolization bordering on techno-deification.
  — Nick Bilton, The Hive, 11 May 2018
• The insurrection of January 6, the deification of Kyle Rittenhouse, and the popularity of gun-wielding, thuggish extremist groups interlock to form a hideous picture of the right wing’s political ambition.
  — David Masciotra, The New Republic, 30 Sep. 2022
• Palisade all art forms; monitor, discredit, or expel those that challenge or destabilize processes of demonization and deification.
  — Zadie Smith, The New Yorker, 23 Jan. 2022
• The genre’s visual language has always been an international collaboration, starting with the Ramones’ debut platter in 1976, which effectively deflated the then-rampant deification of musicians.
  — Brendan Seibel, WIRED, 16 May 2010

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024