Michael Wolff

The most important virtue in politics was once thought to be likeability. But in Corbyn, dislikeable was king. Actually, dislikeability reached its apotheosis in Donald Trump, who exhibited sourness, truculence and negativity in every step and tweet.

American Author

Eddy Merckx

I have decided to give up competition. I cannot train properly for the Tour de France which I had hoped to ride for the last time as apotheosis to my career. Doctors are forbidding me to ride anymore in high level competition and I bow to them.

Margo Jefferson

Michael Jackson loved epic symbols. In his shows and his videos, he always destroyed or salvaged worlds; he was the hero of parables about street violence, sexual combat, war and natural disaster. It was always apocalypse or apotheosis now.

American Critic

Steven Weber

The spectacle of insensitivity that is the gun lobby and its outspoken, out-of-their-mind apparatchiks, is the apotheosis of what the Republican Party has allowed itself to become.

American Actor

Rick Wilson

No bully - and Trump is the apotheosis of every bully, ever - is ever satisfied with just one day's worth of your lunch money.

William McFee

Terrible and sublime thought, that every moment is supreme for some man and woman, every hour the apotheosis of some passion!

American Writer

Use 'apotheosis' to describe the peak achievement in someone's professional life.

Career Highlight

'Apotheosis' usually appears in positive contexts, referring to something highly admirable.

Positive Contexts

Apotheosis can also apply to objects, ideas, or events reaching their highest form.

Nonhuman Subjects

When studying mythology or history, 'apotheosis' captures the elevation of mortals to divine status.

Mythology and History

Use 'apotheosis' when discussing ceremonies that glorify a person as a god.

Religious Ceremonies

'Apotheosis' is used to talk about a person or thing representing a concept to its fullest.

Representative Example

It implies a quality or state that's unmatched, often used to express admiration.

Unique Quality

 all those years "... a ripening and an apotheosis," wrote Nabokov -- noted to me that, like art and like color, literature helps us to remember what we've experienced. And indeed, when I shared the list with my grandfather, he nodded in recognition.