Example sentences for: omnipotent

How can you use “omnipotent” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • An editorial bids adieu to the old model of European integration premised on an omnipotent central bureaucracy.

  • Orwell constructed an alternative future in his vision of the totalitarian state, Nineteen Eighty-Four . The work has given English a small lode of unpleasantries: the title itself connotes a society marked by government terror and propaganda destroying the public's consciousness of reality (the OED Supplement also accepts 1984 and 1984-ish as adjective forms); that government's official language, Newspeak , now indicates the propagandistic or ambiguous language of, among others, politicians, bureaucrats, and broadcasters (“revenue enhancement” for “tax increase,” etc.); the twisting of minds to the capacity to accept the validity of utterly contradictory opinions or beliefs, or double-think ; the book's head of state, Big Brother , implies an apparently benevolent, but really ruthless, omnipotent, and omniscient state authority.

  • The forecast is a tale of heroes (the noble high-pressure system), savage villains (Hurricane Andrew), and omnipotent, inexplicable deities (El Niño, the Jet Stream).

  • The Irish Times of Dublin carried a front-page picture caption, "The Lord God omnipotent raineth on choir in Fishamble Street."

  • My analysis of computer slang has revealed a great deal of ambivalence about these often mysterious and seemingly omnipotent machines.


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