Between 1870 and 1914 the imperatives of empire celebrated a militaristic and robust hypermasculinity, which found its apotheosis in the homosocial world of the boy's adventure story.
They are almost falling over themselves to explain how modest the proposals are—it is the apotheosis of modesty in some ways.
What is the puzzle we are then faced with in this apotheosis of privatisation?
I have read it all very carefully, and it smacks of future shock: the apotheosis of human technology at the expense of the human being.
One of the things we are paying the price for to-day is the apotheosis of the planner, the apotheosis of the technocrat.
I think that he is enjoying his apotheosis.
With the coming of television, mass communication embarked upon a kind of apotheosis.
Frankly, it appears that this world has now reached the apotheosis of insanity.
