Sentences with phrase «cult of personality»

It's far wiser to depend on advanced analytics than a high - priced cult of personality.

Don't conflate atheism with those leaders who built cults of personality with themselves in the godhead position.

I definitely wouldn't put my real name out here, because some posters on this board come across as just crazy enough to make real life threats because I don't worship at the same cult of personality as they do.

They built cults of personality with themselves in the Godhead position — as is happening in North Korea right now.

He managed to make his own cult of personality and, kept nations under his thrall through fear and intimidation.

The countries you're thinking of as declared atheistic (North Korea comes to mind) have very little in common with the atheists you will find on this board, and instead tend to elevate their leader (s) to some kind of god - status, ruling by cult of personality.

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.

In the run up to the vote, critics on social media attacked the move and drew parallels to North Korea or suggested a Mao Zedong - type cult of personality was forming.

The Fed was an opaque cult of personality under Bernanke's predecessor, Alan Greenspan; it is now the most transparent central bank in the world.

(CNNMoney) Horrid economy gives a boost to evangelists and religious cult of personalities.

@Chad «There have been many cult of personalities that did not persecute religions, the largest persecutors of religions in the history of the world have been atheists.

There have been hundreds of religious leaders who have generated every bit as much «faithfulness» from their followers as Jesus had only to lead them to their death, and the political cults of personality like that in North Korea have extremely damaging as well.

@RaytheRC, I attended a still - replicating - itself wannabe megachurch with a big cult of personality (though the pastor / s had these deceptive humility masks they wore constantly).

Republicans will no doubt see it as a means to perpetuate an Obama cult of personality, but if it helps him push his legislative agenda, it could change the way future presidents think about mobilizing and leveraging public opinion.

Cults of personality tend to be imposed from above rather than emerging from below.

This movie will be remembered as the moment the JGL cult of personality jumped a lake full of sharks.

More Spielberg's self - mocking Catch Me If You Can than Julie Taymor's impressionistic Frida, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind examines the creation of a personal cult of personality on a public stage and its attendant guilt / exultation.

Miramax and A24, however, have immensely different cults of personality.

When I did think of music, I was put more in mind of the circumstances under which Captain Beefheart drilled and abused his Magic Band during the year - long creation of Trout Mask Replica, an atmosphere redolent of a Manson-esque cult of personality manipulation and forced disintegration of the ego.

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.

He makes tongue - in - cheek references to Stalin as The Helmsman and The Great Leader who has been imbued with supernatural powers — and whose Cult of Personality is far - reaching and incapable of error.

Jaycee Adams said, Not even Victoria Strauss has enough cult of personality to overcome the lack of common experience and hard data available to the public at large.

Of course being a whacko like that basically accomplishes the exact opposite reaction and actively contributes to the weird cult of personality around people like him, Suda, and some of the more outspoken bums in the Indie community *.

The tragic events surrounding Gorky's life match the turmoil in his paintings, and they laid the groundwork for a rising cult of personalities.

Beyoncé has brought the work of niche talents — a poet, a conceptual artist — into pop culture, by her sheer cult of personality.

I have written in recent months about my concerns over cults of personality or hero worship around judges: the relationship of this phenomenon to clerkship culture, its particular application to celebrity treatment of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and other matters.

While they both sought to eliminate traditional religions from their kingdoms, they did so in order to divert the common man's fervour to their own cults of personality.

Ri Sol Ju, the wife of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, has been upgraded from «comrade» to «revered first lady» in a potential bid to create a cult of personality around her.

The limit of two five - year presidential terms was written into China's constitution after Mao's death in 1976 by Deng Xiaoping, who recognized the dangers of one - man rule and the cult of personality and instead espoused collective leadership.

Still, this much is clear: the socially responsible companies of today, unlike their forebears, aren't driven by a cult of personality (read: Ben Cohen, Yvon Chouinard, Paul Hawken, Anita Roddick).

Admittedly, the highly entertaining, extremely endearing, wildly ambitious, and always surprising Musk has something of a cult of personality.

So Khrushchev blamed the Terror on Stalin and his «cult of personality», and historians in the West followed his lead.

So you have things like «the cult of personality» where Trump's ego comes into play, classic hallmark of despot like behaviour.

The reason he was the driving force behind the films creation and promotion was not because of the artistic merit he imparted to the work (not to say the movie and book weren't excellent), but because of the cult of personality surrounding his own personal brand.

Andy Cunningham: People like Steve Jobs are what I call a cult of personality and there are several of them out there.

Both Walker and Musk have their own «cult of personality».

Some possibilities are that Trump voters are more protectionist than the average Republican voter, or that they instinctively back his positions based on a cult of personality, or that Trump is an inherently divisive figure even within the Republican Party and that this extends to his positions on policies.

Gradually it became apparent to everyone on the outside that he had cleverly developed a Cult of Personality.