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- adjective Alternative spelling of
godlike .
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Examples
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Slowly and tragically, we see a man ripped apart and rebuilt as a god-like figure.
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One pays according to an iron schedule -- for every strength the balanced weakness; for every high a corresponding low; for every fictitious god-like moment an equivalent time in reptilian slime.
Chapter 6 2010
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Wrathful, god-like, but oddly enough playing a twilit harp.
feathers of youth Jerry Ratch 2011
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She did the smile as well, looking around in that same god-like benevolent way.
Karen Kondazian: Excerpt: 'The Whip' Karen Kondazian 2012
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She did the smile as well, looking around in that same god-like benevolent way.
Karen Kondazian: Excerpt: 'The Whip' Karen Kondazian 2012
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The frustration of a parent's powerlessness in the face of disease is given heartbreaking new life by watching these god-like figures rail against such limitations.
Michael Giltz: Review: Chris Adrian's The Great Night Not His Breakthrough Michael Giltz 2011
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Now while it is a common literary/philosophical theme that god-like power doesn't bring happiness, i.e., it is addictive and leads to a solipsistic existence, I think there are at least three problems with the idea that this is an important lesson:
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Actually the proper response to her is basically along the lines Warren suggests in that Diocletian eliminated centuries-old limitations and assumed god-like powers in order to rearrange social relations that stood int he way of his will.
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » What’s Next — Dreaming of Mussolini? 2009
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The frustration of a parent's powerlessness in the face of disease is given heartbreaking new life by watching these god-like figures rail against such limitations.
Michael Giltz: Review: Chris Adrian's The Great Night Not His Breakthrough Michael Giltz 2011
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She did the smile as well, looking around in that same god-like benevolent way.
Karen Kondazian: Excerpt: 'The Whip' Karen Kondazian 2012
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