Sentences with phrase «as cult leader»

Alice Krige is brilliant as the cult leader, Sean Bean (Flightplan) does okay as Rose's husband, and a rather boring Laurie Holden and Kim Coates don't really bring much to the screen as a couple of cops.

But the main focus of the episode was Kai's (Evan Peters) political ambitions, his place as cult leader and a look back on the many real - life ones to come before him.

Kirsten Dunst gives another powerful performance as the young boy's desperate mother, while the cast is rounded out by Sam Shepherd as the cult leader and Joel Edgerton as a state trooper supporting the family in their bid for freedom.

But even Paramount Network's upcoming miniseries Waco, starring Taylor Kitsch as cult leader David Koresh, does a better job of transforming true - crime headlines into compelling drama.

Philip Seymour Hoffman lead the pack early on for his role as a cult leader in the role of L. Ron Hubbard, though the polarizing taste The Master left in many viewers» mouths may force them to turn to Tommy Lee Jones, who's overdue for a second trip to the podium.

Along with Field, supporting - actress nominees are Amy Adams as a cult leader's devoted wife in «The Master»; Anne Hathaway as an outcast mother reduced to prostitution in «Les Miserables»; Helen Hunt as a sex surrogate in «The Sessions»; and Jacki Weaver as an unstable man's doting mom in «Silver Linings Playbook.»

The 36 - year - old actor is starring as cult leader David Koresh in a new TV miniseries and though...

Costabile most recently co-starred as a cult leader in the event series DIG and as Simon Boyd, an internal affairs investigator whose murder case begins to go cold on LOW WINTER SUN.

In an investigative story by the Albany Times Union in 2012, critics described NXIVM as a multilevel marketing business and Raniere as a cult leader who has drawn more than 10,000 followers to his self - improvement philosophy.

I agree with this assessment regarding Gaskin as cult leader.

The fundamentalists I knew as a child would have dismissed Beck as a cult leader, but this is a new kind of fundamentalism.

After some separation from her I realized that she still has that shepherding mentality from her past and is still trying to create it in her life — with herself as the cult leader now.

Not exact matches

Tony Hsieh, a cult - like figure and the CEO of Zappos, is reportedly stepping down as leader of his $ 350 million project to transform Downtown Las Vegas into a city built entirely for entrepreneurs.

Curiously, founder / CEO / cult leader Elon Musk just tweeted an April Fool's joke yesterday that Tesla was declaring bankruptcy... making light of his company's dire financial condition as if he either doesn't understand or doesn't care.

Some of the Cult's leaders like to play dress - up as scientists — Bill Nye and Neil deGrasse Tyson are two particularly prominent examples — but hardly any of them have contributed any research results of note.

Americans need answers to these questions as we debate electing a Mormon CULT LEADER to be our president.

One refers to the Prophet Mohammed as a «Cult leader for a small inner circle.»

I laugh at this leader of pedophile central... as if the leader and protector of child rapists has any legitimacy to speak of issues outside his own cult.

Questioning the tenets or leader of a CULT is not allowed (especially by non-members as you can tell by the mormons on here that are freaking out at those of us that prefer freedom).

It was only after he found fame as an adult that his followers, like those of any religious or cult leader, felt the need to embellish his birth to supernatural status and fit it into to the expectations of the people they were trying to convince or influence.

If a recognized cult leader was to publicly proclaim that an individual or group was not a member of the cult they claimed, I would pay attention, but I do not expect this to happen much as the charlatans leading the cults know that it is bad for the believer business overall when there is Infighting.

In the first instance and frequently in the second, it is patterned after «secular» models (the father as leader of a cult - group, tribal organization paralleled by cultic set - up).

first I doubt that enough people believe Jesus was an evil cult leader for that to be counted as a «side.»

The modern day leader of their cult is Dawkins who sits in his big mansion laughing all the way to the bank as these jerks give him millions of $ (in book sales) to have their ears tickled.

It is a cult with Richard Dawkins as its leader, and from most of the arguments on here it seems that most of you are being brain washed by him and atheistic scientist.

There is no such thing as «progressive Christians»» there are only new cult leaders and heretics.

A cult needs a singular figure as a leader who people look up to.

I am writing to you as the President of the American Family Foundation, an organization of professionals, including religious leaders, mental health professionals, academicians, and attorneys who are committed to inform the public about the dangers of destructive cults...

Protesters such as protestants broke away from Catholicism, so apparently following such leaders as Calvin, Luther etc fits the definition of a cult to me.

Just do what god tells you to do, as communicated by his interpreters here on earth, such as pastors, cult leaders, Osama bin Laden... Of course if you think you can hear him talk to you directly, you are clinically insane and should seek help.

Instead, it was the tragic and unnecessary end result of her only son's reckless and charismatic life as a teacher and cult leader.

«A reference to Mormonism as a cult was scrubbed from the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association's website shortly after Mitt Romney met with the group's leader.»

The problem with cult leaders like Gaskin is that they can be much as you describe.

In a March 2009 article for Sport and Society, professors Ashley Stirling and Gretchen Kerr» research shows that some athletes imagine the coach's position, even when abusive, as comparable to a priest or a cult leader.

The FBI raided a Waterford home with close connections to the alleged cult NXVIM, as the group's leader, Keith Raniere, faces charges.

Despite often being labeled a «personality cult» they are often privately very critical of the leadership with some talking of a succession to a new, younger leader such as Clive Lewis or Angela Rayner.

The first of suspects known as the 3 - musketeers of the Vikings includes gang leader, armourer and 2nd in command of the cult sect.

Oyo State Police command has arrested a man, Moshood Oladokun (32), popularly known as Ekugbemi, who is the leader of the dreaded cult group, «One Million...

Reinventing the Gucci stripe and re-establishing the iconic Italian house as one of the leaders in luxury ready - to - wear, Alessandro Michele's innovative vision has elevated the Florentine Maison to cult status.

The plot centers around Malvina (Brigitte De Borghese, the leader of a sex cult in the process of being exposed by an investigative reporter posing as a member.

As fascinating as Kitsch is to watch as Koresh (and he is truly outstanding), and as stellar as Waco's entire cast is, there is an uncomfortable feeling of being fed a story that lionizes a cult leader in a way that doesn't feel like it's exploring truth so much as providing a particular point of vieAs fascinating as Kitsch is to watch as Koresh (and he is truly outstanding), and as stellar as Waco's entire cast is, there is an uncomfortable feeling of being fed a story that lionizes a cult leader in a way that doesn't feel like it's exploring truth so much as providing a particular point of vieas Kitsch is to watch as Koresh (and he is truly outstanding), and as stellar as Waco's entire cast is, there is an uncomfortable feeling of being fed a story that lionizes a cult leader in a way that doesn't feel like it's exploring truth so much as providing a particular point of vieas Koresh (and he is truly outstanding), and as stellar as Waco's entire cast is, there is an uncomfortable feeling of being fed a story that lionizes a cult leader in a way that doesn't feel like it's exploring truth so much as providing a particular point of vieas stellar as Waco's entire cast is, there is an uncomfortable feeling of being fed a story that lionizes a cult leader in a way that doesn't feel like it's exploring truth so much as providing a particular point of vieas Waco's entire cast is, there is an uncomfortable feeling of being fed a story that lionizes a cult leader in a way that doesn't feel like it's exploring truth so much as providing a particular point of vieas providing a particular point of view.

The cast, which includes Jason Momoa as a sensitive cannibal, a nearly unrecognizable Jim Carrey as a sunburnt drifter, and Keanu Reeves as a Jim Jones - style cult leader in a Mad Max-esque desert dystopia, is similarly eccentrically utilized, for better (Reeves» smarmy menace) and for worse (Momoa's ill - advised Cuban accent, clearly stretching his range as an actor).

As the fictional story of Lancaster Dodd (Philip Seymour Hoffman, never finer), a 1950s cult leader who mentors disturbed World War II Navy vet Freddie Quell (Joaquin Phoenix in the performance of his career), The Master doesn't flinch at taking on the business of religion.

This is hardly the first time Anderson has slyly subverted the power dynamic of a marriage, as anyone who remembers Amy Adams» glittering eyes in «The Master,» silently asserting control over her cult - leader husband, can attest.

John Hawkes (of «Winter's Bone») is unforgettable as the warped cult leader.

Paul Thomas Anderson's latest historical drama is another of his studies of a lost boy and his charismatic parental substitutes, as alcoholic World War II veteran Joaquin Phoenix stumbles into the circle of cult leader Philip Seymour Hoffman and his wife Amy Adams.

A stunning debut that delivers both laughs and thrills in equal measure, Attack the Block features superb performances from its young cast — led by John Boyega as gang leader Moses — and although it went largely unnoticed in cinemas (banking just under # 2.5 m here in the UK), it will surely go on to become a cult classic.

The superior supporting cast includes Adam Driver as an inquisitive NSA agent who doesn't follow the rulebook, Kirsten Dunst as Lieberher's estranged mother, and Sam Shepard as a religious cult leader who feels he has a claim on the boy.

Paramount Network's Waco stars Taylor Kitsch as the enigmatic cult leader David Koresh.

Ben's father - in - law - played with grit and righteous anger by Frank Langella — sees his grandchildren's upbringing as child abuse with Ben resembling something less a father, more a Manson - lite cult leader, and he has a fair point.