Meaning of dei ex machinis | Babel Free

Definitions

Noun. [C1]

Examples

“Is our salvation to be dependent upon machines; are we to become⟳ dei ex machinis?”

“The dei ex machinis and the bug-eyed monsters are both products of man’s imagination — extensions and projections of his own⟳ desires, fears and hopes about himself, often revealing more about the sorts of things he believes in — or unconsciously wants to believe⟳ in — than he himself recognises.”

“Apparitions, marvelous coincidences, and various dei ex machinis endow these true-life fictions with spiritual qualities, useful as new secular verification that God’s plan⟳ is[…]”

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