Sentences with phrase «cultish in»

That's why so much of Big Climate's behavior is cultish in nature, including its conspiracy - theory paranoia, and its savage treatment of heretics and blasphemers — they're not shy about comparing skeptics to Holocaust deniers or 9/11 truthers, as seen in the Daily Beast's hyperventilation over the story of skeptic Wei - Hock Soon's corporate funding.

Guest - hosting the Tonight Show, not overly frequent comedy club work, and two shows that are fairly cultish in regard.

But I have to admit that the kettlebell community has become a little too cultish in the past few years.

They know in their hearts what foolishness the bible is and they suspect that there really is no god, but they know that all their friends and relatives will react very negatively if they ever voice their thoughts (Christians are very cultish in their reaction to those who do not believe just as they do).

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Now we're seeing the result: $ 20 bottles of Pappy going for several hundred dollars, a cultish following for anything labelled «small batch» or «single barrel» and folks like me booking vacations in Kentucky to experience what some are calling the «Sonoma of the South» (and maybe score a coveted bottle of this fall's new Antique Collection from Buffalo Trace while I'm at it).

And it's worked well for him: Bridgewater, while sometimes viewed as «cultish,» is one of the most coveted places to work in finance.

The x-factor in the game has been Shake Shack, whose August 20 trademark filing for «ChickenShackTM» sparked widespread conjecture about a poultry - based spinoff of the cultish burger chain.

Of course it makes sense why investors would jump to compare bitcoin to other assets — stocks can explode to record prices in a short time and attract a cultish following.

Then as my theology began to change I saw first hand the type of cultish mind control tactics employed in most fundamental church settings.

You live in Utah and you think the Catholic Church is cultish?

Nevertheless, the differences are stark enough that Trinitarian Pentecostals in Ethiopia consider Oneness Pentecostalism to be cultish while Oneness Pentecostals re-baptize all converts and tend to connect salvation to their baptism.

There are apparently plenty of people who want support in getting and staying sober, but are turned off by the cultish AA program.

In fact, when deprived of an explicit metaphysical - moral underpinning, the ideologies of either capitalism or socialism themselves take on cultish form, complete with secularized high priests, denominational orthodoxies, doctrinal disputes, and ritual excommunications all under the garb of social analysis.

To be sure, many of the current manifestations of this Eastern trend have been shallow and cultish, but they have had a powerful influence in calling into question the uniqueness of the Christian faith.

They view our songs and sermons about His blood in a way that is similar to how you or I might view a cultish sacrificial ritual deep in the woods on a dark night.

Grassroots Brewing stands in the shadow of its parent, the cultish Hill Farmstead, and the Perfect Crime, which Stillwater's Strumke started with Evil Twin, quickly fizzled out.

After USHG opened the first permanent Shake Shack as a kiosk in the park in 2004, Meyer's team spent years refining the craft: serving better - quality burgers, hot dogs, shakes, and fries; treating guests with a level of hospitality more often found in restaurants than fast - food joints; and making its cultish following of customers happy enough to endure those infamously long lines.

A one - time draw for a cultish following of retirees and gambling enthusiasts, OTB's demise left a void in the city for many, according to the New York Times.

I used to see Apple's devoted fans as cultish, but now I'm the one who's left in a cult: the shrinking cult of technophiles who want stuff that above all works well, solves problems, and delivers real value, and the hell with look and feel.

In the grand scheme of beauty product life, this stuff is basically an infant, but it's already earned icon status in my book (and based on a quick Internet search, is fast approaching «cultish following» amongst my fellow beauty writers, green or notIn the grand scheme of beauty product life, this stuff is basically an infant, but it's already earned icon status in my book (and based on a quick Internet search, is fast approaching «cultish following» amongst my fellow beauty writers, green or notin my book (and based on a quick Internet search, is fast approaching «cultish following» amongst my fellow beauty writers, green or not).

But it became a true sensation on DVD, where a cultish following developed around the wild hijinks of the two namesake New Jersey pals (John Cho and Kal Penn) as they attempted to sate a case of the munchies, and in the process crossed paths with both a cheetah and the erstwhile Doogie Howser, M.D. — Neil Patrick Harris, playing an obscenity - spouting, drugged - up, hyper - masculinized version of himself.

Additionally, in no particular order, there were vocal supporters of the Ralph Jones «incongruously great score to «Slumber Party Massacre ``; «Phantasm» «s heavily «Exorcist «- indebted score from Fred Myrow and Malcom Seagrave; Danny Elfman «s channelling of Bernard Herrmann for «Nightbreed ``; Wojciech Kilar «s bombastic, often recycled music for «Bram Stoker's Dracula ``; John Harrison's score for Romero's anthology film «Creepshow ``; Richard Band «s better - than - deserved compositions for the terrible «Troll ``; the great Lalo Schifrin «s score for the original «The Amityville Horror ``; a more recent example in Climax Golden Twins» music for Brad Anderson «s now cultish «Session 9 ``; Pino Donaggio's terrific work with de Palma's «Dressed to Kill ``; Gene Moore's classic church organ scares in «Carnival of Souls ``; and while we've featured Bava fils above, we could easily have found room for his father Mario Bava, probably with the funky original music by Libra for his final film «Shock.»

A re-visiting of the somewhat seminal work — which scored a visual effects Oscar nomination, rang up over $ 50 million in its initial theatrical run, and expanded upon the notions of what was an acceptable Hollywood studio animated release — reveals a spirited but flawed rendering of a deliciously wonky premise, a movie long on cultish personality but lacking in the sort of storytelling vim and vigor that sticks to the imagination outside of a captive viewing.

The horror movie about a black man named Chris (Daniel Kaluuya) going to visit his white girlfriend's in - laws takes a devastating turn when he realizes his girlfriend's family is not just hyper - racist — they're progenitors of a cultish group that lures black men to their neighborhood so that their white neighbors can take control of their minds.

Tonally similar to recent cultish favorites from Yorgos Lanthimos and Ben Wheatley («Dogtooth» feels like a particularly close and favoured first cousin), there's also a little Haneke in its chilly dissection of a perfect bourgeois life.

The presence of cultish horror producer / director Larry Fessenden in the cast should attract some indie genre - pic fans, but they're unlikely to be impressed.

In a more objective reality, Zoolander was a popular movie with a cultish half - life.

These protestors, depicted as cultish goons, would seem to present a one - sided view in favour of pro-choice, but all is saved in a moment where Dr. Thompson cries privately — we see the weight of her daily task striking (presumably) yet another blow to her spirit.

The three - eyed aliens of Toy Story are oddly cultish and charming like Ewoks, but the real champions here are the Minions of Despicable Me, soulless entities so successful they got a spin - off film and have another in the works, copious merchandising, memes, and ironic post-modern memes of memes.

In practical terms, «Thrones» exemplifies the perfect model for victory in the pay - to - view, subscription - model age - a program that combines prestige (garnering plenty of award nominations to go with its critical superlatives), mass appeal (carving out ratings records by HBO's standards) and the kind of cultish devotion often reserved for much narrower propertieIn practical terms, «Thrones» exemplifies the perfect model for victory in the pay - to - view, subscription - model age - a program that combines prestige (garnering plenty of award nominations to go with its critical superlatives), mass appeal (carving out ratings records by HBO's standards) and the kind of cultish devotion often reserved for much narrower propertiein the pay - to - view, subscription - model age - a program that combines prestige (garnering plenty of award nominations to go with its critical superlatives), mass appeal (carving out ratings records by HBO's standards) and the kind of cultish devotion often reserved for much narrower properties.

It mirrors what happens in the film» — in which Kaluuya's character, Chris, must escape from a cultish group of suburbanites who fetishize his race, reducing him to a dark - skinned vessel for their own projections of what «blackness» is.

It's become such cultish catnip that it has even inspired another remake, also called «Pusher,» also made in Britain, but in Hindi.

The script for the film, which boasts two writers with cultish followings, Neil Gaiman (Stardust, Mirrormask) and Roger Avary (The Rules of Attraction, Pulp Fiction), had been in the works for almost a decade, finally coming to fruition with one of the more visually stunning films you're ever likely to see.

She has been captured and impregnated by the Man in the Black and is being kept underground in his cultish layer.

Director Zack Snyder garnered a cultish fan base by essentially copycatting Frank Miller's vision for his mega-hit 300, and has repeated the technique by trying to emulate «Watchmen» artist Dave Gibbons» frames in Moore's opus.

Like Apple's coolest products, which have turned people who don't care about computers into cultish gadget geeks, the Karma is cutting - edge technology wrapped in a jaw - dropping package and offered at a competitive price.

Started in the»90s, it remains a cultish collection of hardcore Porsche fanatics, many of whom work within the car industry as designers, engineers, racers and film - makers.

For those that have been put off by such a cultish following, PS4 - exclusive Bloodborne serves as the perfect way in.

If their experimental project turns out to be anything like the super-stylish rhythm action titles in the Bit.Trip series, I'm sure many of Gaijin's cultish fanbase will appreciate it.

Playing Armored Core V, the latest in From Software's cultish series of rock «em, sock «em giant AC (mecha) simulators, was something of an emotional journey.

He champions marginal figures of his own: cultish artists like Judi Linn, Peter Saul, Peter Cain and David Armstrong, and artists who have not had one - person shows in Manhattan, like Toba Khedoori, Helen Marden and Ellen Gallagher.

Tapie found a like - mind in Sweeney, who was eager to prove the Guggenheim more vital than the «cultish temple» Rebay had established.

«As the climate - change theory crumbles, expect its supporters to be more vocal in its defence, more insistent that the science is ironclad... Like the cultish followers of any faddish religion when it nears the end of its fashionableness, they will proclaim their views even more vociferously and denounce more forcefully all those who disagree»

Years ago when Nobel Prize winner in Medicine Sir Peter Medawar took on the cultish nonsense surrounding another UN pus, Teilhard de Chardin, he came up with one of my all = time favorite lines.

However, it's often marginalized and pooh - poohed and relegated to being seen as some woo - woo hippie belief system or cultish fad, which is a shame, considering the potential positive impact that applying permaculture principles can have at home, in the city, on the farm, and in business.

iTunes for Windows enabled a vast majority of consumers to make use of the music player Apple used to reinvent itself from a cultish alternative computer manufacturer to a company trading in bling and youthful obsession.

While that may sound like cultish adoration, this little glorified spreadsheet really did change my life for the better in a way that Mint, Level, Simple Bank, and other services failed to do.

It's a cultish community, and as with any cult, there are downsides to being a part of a rabid group, as Peloton rider Drew Hallett learned back in March.