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Padmavati, a literary artefact, is deified, while Deepika Padukone, the actress portraying the character, is threatened with dire consequences.
Cox notes that the inspiration for this expansion of his earlier work sprung from his admiration for Pope Francis' "stinging critique of today's unbridled consumerism and 'economy of exclusion and inequality'" Cox appreciates the pontiff's 2013 Evangelii Gaudium ("The Joy of the Gospel"), which criticizes "trickle-down theories," "the sacralized working of the prevailing economic system," and a "deified market."
As Godvernment becomes the religion of state our First Amendment rights will evaporate under pressure from a deified government.
She examines a particular set of practices, the worship of individuals who had been officially deified in the city of Rome and shows how the worship of these deified individuals spread throughout the empire, and the kinds of decisions individual communities made about adopting these cult practices.
The pope wrote, "The climate is a common good, belonging to all and meant for all," and later warned, "Whatever is fragile, like the environment, is defenseless before the interests of a deified market."
The suggestion was made at a time when Sean FitzPatrick was deified."
If the Cavs win the championship, James will be lauded more than ever, perhaps even deified, as the man who brought a title trophy back to Cleveland where there's not been one in over five decades.
PRIESTS at an ancient Shiva temple in South Gujarat have decided to remove Sai idol from the temple complex following Dwarka Peeth Shankaracharya Swami Swaroopanand Saraswati's controversial call that Hindus should not worship deified figures.
The Canadian Opera Company has announced that it has commissioned a full-length opera inspired by the story of the Roman Emperor Hadrian and his love for Antinous, a young favorite who was deified after drowning in the Nile.
Perhaps my personal favourite, though, was: "I suppose you might say it's been topsy-turvy in the sense that having been deified, people have then started to crucify me but that's part of the business."
This third Kim monarch not only looks like his deified grandfather, but has in part also acted like him with a purge of some of the senior leadership.
While I have never been able to grasp why a grown man going round and round on a bike, or someone sailing a wee boat, should be practically deified, I'll admit I'm probably in a minority.