Example Sentences

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On Ghosts, he characterises jealousy as a phantom who stalks his house; Jackson himself becomes a ghost on Threatened, a fantasy of control where he moves omnipotently around a love rival.

From The Guardian • Sep. 25, 2017

It's also a beguiling metaphor for the dilemma of the novelist or filmmaker who, omnipotently, creates his characters and then must let them breathe, misbehave, go their own ways.

From Time Magazine Archive

For an extended pensive time, his shaggy head held sadly in his hands, Pacheco stared at this minuscule thing on which he had so omnipotently decided to bestow a future.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols

Try to believe, for a moment, that your souls are omnipotently right.

From The Soul of Susan Yellam by Vachell, Horace Annesley

Deep within those verdicts there throbs omnipotently a sense of moral duty, moral right, man's highest good and goal.

From Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians by Beardslee, Clark S.