They sent him countless letters and postcards, some of which called him a ' living saviour ' or celebrated his ' exalted and godlike benevolence ' (p. 229).
It confirms the magnitudes of power that the new discipline set out to engage - they could be universal and/or even godlike.
This sort of goodness, so it seems, admits of degrees : the more godlike a thing is the more goodness it has.
But at the end of the day, what he produces is not openness but closure - a single, coherent, unproblematized narrative, as if from an objective, godlike narrator.
Though they are godlike, they are not always omniscient.
For one, it encourages people to demand more wages because they think they are perfectly all right; some godlike figure can hold prices down.
A godlike status was accorded to consultants but it was commensurate with their efforts in patient care.
They just sort of materialized out of the fog, these vast, godlike things.
