They built cults of personality with themselves in the Godhead position — as is happening in North Korea right now.
I.E. Ernest Hemingway and Norman Mailer didn't survive as bestsellers on talent alone: they spent a great deal of time
building their cult of personality.
Not exact matches
One must
build a kind
of personality cult.
Having
built a dynastic regime with a strong
cult of personality, that is desperate for international recognition, a bilateral summit is an excellent way to prove that Kim Jong - un is on equal footing with an US President.
Dr Sakara, in his resignation letter, accused the leaders
of the CPP
of building a
personality cult around one individual (Samia, although he wouldn't mention her name), with the sole purpose
of beginning a process
of leadership by «dynastic succession».
A
cult of personality is being
built around him.
What is left is the semblance
of a
personality cult club
built around the ambition
of an individual.
Enfant terrible South African director Richard Stanley has
built an entire
cult of personality around how hard Hardware and its brother in theme and feel, Dust Devil, try — how, therefore, it's subsequently been impossible for him to get another project off the ground.