self-deification

It was only one moment in an evening's worth of earnest self-deification.

At one point he even seemed to approach self-deification.

Initiated members consider themselves beings on a path to self-deification.

This is not a superstar's self-deification vehicle designed to buff his everyman goodness, either.

Once more I seem to recognize in her exactly the same appetite for self-deification that I have for pie.

More than a few were Christian and monarchist conservatives who deplored Hitler's tendency toward self-deification.

Self-deification

In the mean time, Mentuhotep II started an extensive program of self-deification emphasizing the divine nature of the ruler.

Mr. Farrakhan's efforts to strike a benign pose were fatally compromised by his speech's lunatic digressions into crypto-mysticism and self-deification.

I find myself greatly embarrassed by Mrs. Eddy's remark: "I regard self-deification as blasphemous."

Yet more self-deification from Alan Rusbridger, as he laid down Guardian News & Media's commandments for open journalism in a recent presentation.

It's not just Mr. Bush's self-deification that separates him from the likes of Lincoln, however; it's his chosen fashion of Christianity.

Muggleton makes clear he believed Robins guilty of self-deification and of indulging in dangerous powers when he had no grounds to consider them of divine origin.

I regard self-deification as blasphemous; I may be more loved, but I am less lauded, pampered, provided for, and cheered than others before me--and wherefore?

Specifically, Harding claims that "... under the serpent's influence, Eve's idolatry and self-deification foreshadow the errors into which her 'Sons' will stray."

Elsewhere, he indulges in a little garden-variety self-deification ("Brand New God," "Until You Call on the Dark").

Reeve was examined by the Lord Mayor of London, John Fowke, on three heads; self-deification, cursing Cromwell and denying the Trinity.

As a bald-faced exercise in cinematic self-deification, "The Postman" makes Barbra Streisand's "Mirror Has Two Faces" seem almost modest.

The tablet suggested that Idrimi not only wielded absolute power in Alalakh, but it also suggested that Idrimi had exercised some independence through his own self-deification.

We seem to be curiously alike; for the love of self-deification is really only the spiritual form of the material appetite for pie, and nothing could be more strikingly Christian-Scientifically "harmonious."

Its core philosophy is based concepts of individualism, egoism, epicureanism, self-deification and self-preservation, and propagates a worldview of natural law, materialism, Lex Talionis, and mankind as animals in an amoral universe.

But if the latest comment by Shah Rukh Khan, the Bollywood actor and owner of the Kolkata franchise, is anything to go by, winning the IPL is less important than self-deification.

In radical contrast to the Promethean illusion, God reveals himself in history, especially personified in Jesus Christ, as sacrificial love which overcomes the human temptation to self-deification and makes possible constructive human history.

This special group of colleagues and current and ex-patients heard Jung tell them that the path to personality transformation was through an experience of self-deification (literally experiencing oneself to become Christ or a god) and then overcoming it.

Political scientist Paul Thomas, discussing the work in The Cambridge Companion to Marx (1991), argues that Kołakowski wrongly interprets Marxism as "radical anthropocentrism, a secularization of the (real) religious absolute, a formula for human self-perfectibility, and the self-deification of humankind."