How to Use omnipotence in a Sentence

omnipotence

noun

• Perhaps the biggest cause for optimism is that this time people don’t have much cause for faith in the omnipotence of the state.
  — Gerard Baker, WSJ, 31 Jan. 2022
• They are often convinced of the omnipotence of their knowledge.
  — Gregory Stebbins, Forbes, 16 June 2022
• His career was the source of his feelings of omnipotence and grandiosity.
  — Laura Bradley, VanityFair.com, 21 Apr. 2017
• His elimination of the term limits that would have required him to step down in 2022 did not grant him omnipotence.
  — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 24 Aug. 2019
• Most sinister of all is money’s bid for omnipotence in our lives.
  — Cathi Douglas, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Jan. 2023
• There’s a reason billionaires like to occupy the top floors of skyscrapers: Great heights confer a sense of power, of omnipotence even.
  — Washington Post, 13 June 2019
• The effect is a feeling of omnipotence cut through with utter helplessness.
  — Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 13 Oct. 2022
• In those bathrooms, God wasn’t faceless omnipotence but proximate particulars, grout and soap — the things that had always been there, right in front of me.
  — Leslie Jamison, Time, 4 Apr. 2018
• The director is often powerful to the point of omnipotence, but no one except special groups of insiders will ever think of the show as his.
  — Steven Strogatz, The New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2017
• Today feels like a rude awakening, given that the machine’s omnipotence and hair-trigger use was on display only a short while ago.
  — Paul Swartz, Fortune, 3 Mar. 2022
• Shifting to a content-first company isn't about calling the shots; don't expect omnipotence.
  — Melissa Zehner, Forbes, 24 Sep. 2021
• Robert doesn't quite give her gods the magical omnipotence of their predecessors.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 30 June 2021
• Needless to say, there is no longer any single television impresario with that kind of omnipotence.
  — Lisa Birnbach, Washington Post, 13 May 2022
• Slide him into the old Ernie Adams role as the unofficial director of football omnipotence.
  — Chad Finn, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Dec. 2022
• This cult of whiteness, its essentiality and omnipotence, is the straw that stirs and spreads the nationalist pixie dust.
  — C. Brandon Ogbunu, WIRED, 1 Aug. 2019
• But Chutkan's ruling shows that as an ex-President, Trump's belief in his own omnipotence and right to flout the rule of law is on even weaker ground than during his four tumultuous years in office.
  — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 10 Nov. 2021
• If applied to security systems and other live video feeds, this sort of technology gives those with the power to search through it a sort of instant, god-like omnipotence.
  — Eric Limer, Popular Mechanics, 10 May 2017
• The Dodgers are experiencing their first prolonged slump, and that feeling of omnipotence in Los Angeles may be fading away.
  — Paul Sullivan, chicagotribune.com, 4 Sep. 2017
• But sadly for researchers (and happily for players), that level of omniscience and omnipotence isn’t in the offing, at least in this century.
  — Adam Willis, Slate Magazine, 2 May 2017
• But where Goddard convinced Ken even misfits have a sector of omnipotence, Bizzard made him feel cemented in failure.
  — Elisabeth Egan, chicagotribune.com, 10 June 2017
• Boys and men are taught that masculinity means an absurd omnipotence, mastery, comfort, and prowess.
  — Christine Smallwood, The New York Review of Books, 6 July 2021
• Those illusions died extremely hard, but the events of this past weekend should put to rest any lingering beliefs in American omnipotence.
  — David Faris, The Week, 17 Aug. 2021
• Russia analysts who are of the (prevailing) view that Putin approaches omnipotence ask what his realpolitik long con in Donbas can be.
  — New York Times, 16 Jan. 2022
• Disdain, however, for the fan base, the media and anyone who questions the Arkansas athletic department’s omnipotence, is beyond the pale.
  — Eric Bolin, ajc, 4 Nov. 2017
• Hulu Constance: Any time Gilead’s omnipotence becomes shaky, this show gets more interesting.
  — Todd Vanderwerff, Vox, 30 May 2018
• This omnipotence was to have insulated Mr. Celler from his own irrelevance.
  — Ginia Bellafante, New York Times, 5 July 2018
• Barthes injects the expectation of a dark turn into thriller territory once the omnipotence of the corporate overlords is established.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Jan. 2023
• The Borzois’ air of omnipotence, Chattman said, is perhaps why TikTok users are seeing them everywhere — in every triangular object in their households.
  — Daysia Tolentino, NBC News, 17 Jan. 2023
• The Willis Tower was built with cutting-edge technology and ageless chutzpah, a word that could be translated as an intoxicating sense of omnipotence.
  — Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune, 26 June 2022
• The impunity solidified Moshe’s belief in his own omnipotence.
  — Jeff Truesdell, PEOPLE.com, 22 June 2018

Last Updated: 10 Nov 2024