Example Sentences

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That’s never going to be easy to encapsulate, even when the heroine is half-divine, the daughter of a god and an Amazon queen.

From The Guardian • Jul. 22, 2017

Henderson’s totemic character is Polyphemus, the half-divine Cyclops whose appearance in Homer’s “Odyssey” is one of the poem’s most harrowing episodes.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 16, 2015

Wonderful indeed was the craftsman, divine or half-divine, who by the subtlety of his art had breathed so wild a soul into the silver!

From Marius the Epicurean — Volume 1 by Pater, Walter

Can the half-divine thought of Plato, rising in storeys of sequential ideas, following each other to the conclusion, endure here?

From The Story of My Heart An Autobiography by Jefferies, Richard

And now I will leave you and sing the glories of men half-divine, whose deeds minstrels, the servants of the Muses, celebrate with lovely lips.

From Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica by Evelyn-White, Hugh G. (Hugh Gerard)