Sentences with phrase «of a cult of»

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

«You create return customers by creating the most amazing experience — not just a good first impression, but a phenomenal last impression,» says Shep Hyken, a customer - service expert and author of The Cult of the Customer (Wiley, 2009).

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.

The greatest friends of the Cult of Science are the worst enemies of science's actual practice.

If science was unprepared for the influx of careerists, it was even less prepared for the blossoming of the Cult of Science.

Either Jesus was a real man in history who we know absolutely nothing about, due the the Bible's completely innaccurate and conflicting accounts, or he didn't exist at all and was a lesser god that was created based on many of the tenets of the Cult of Osiris.

If you believe in the resurrected Christ, you are of a cult of sacrifice that believes in a God that requires sacrifice.

With the arrival of the cult of the emperor other public cults of divinized (historical) men were curtailed, and even more established deities could suffer from its intolerance.

-- Mao Tse Tung, Autotheist who successfully mythologized himself into the Godhead position of his cult of personality (fixed that for you)

One thinks of the cult of celebrity.

Nye is a fool, like so many of the cult of evolution.

The midrash rejoins here texts in the Old Testament and in the Jewish tradition, which are attentive to the risks of a cult of the nation and the temptation to a mythology on the Ûbermensch.

Pretty sure you still need to show that these wackos weren't at the top of a cult of personality, which they were.

Ha Ha Ha, A member of the cult of Jehovahs Witness who also perverted the bible with their NWT and evil corrupt founder Charles Taze Russell who remember was a pedophile, sold magic wheat and healing clothes and thought the pyramids told of the «invisible» return of Christ in 1914 putting down and saying a Mormon is wrong, your just as nuts.

In it Hitler is quoted as having said on October 14 1941: «It seems to be inexpressibly stupid to allow a revival of the cult of Odin / Wotan.

North Koreans are victims of a cult of personality as opposed to a cult of divinity.

If the reader would like an introduction to the possible influences of the Cult of Artemis in Ephesus and how it may related to biblical interpretation, this would be a good place to start.

The democracy which is an offshoot of the enthusiasm of humanity, and of which I will speak later under the head of the cult of poverty, doubtless bore also a share.

Since there is no alternate version of reality for us to examine, in which the Catholic Church did NOT «save» Europe from barbarism, or whatever, we can't really compare, and can't really say WHAT would have happened without the existence of the Cult of Joshua bar Joseph of Nazareth in Rome.

By way of the cult of the sun god, for example, Egyptians long antedated Hebrews in ascribing to one deity sovereignty over the whole world.

A deep, hard - to - pinpoint angst saps and drains the morale of America's children: The quiet carnage of the cult of success.

Here I can only say that without some such awareness of novelty, coupled with a profound loyalty to the deepest intention of our inheritance, we shall be either last - ditch defenders of impossible positions and ideas or victims of the cult of the merely contemporary.

Medieval witchcraft is believed to constitute the continuation of the cult of the Mother Goddess and the horned god (cf. the writings of Dame Margaret Murray).

Are you a member of the cult of Trader Joe's Everything But the Bagel seasoning blend?

Take a chunk out of the cult of coach by pointing out how many of LSU's biggest plays of 2007 happened because of perfectly timed individual contributions, usually in well - portioned turns.

PS getting tired of the cult of Wenger claiming we are «bad» and not «worthy» fans for daring to question the club we love.

To him, Dunlap was a pariah, an iconoclast of the cult of bravery, a sub-verter of the English way of life.

I am circulating a petition to have you officially declared High Priestess of the Cult of Malicious Alarmists.

The site currently features articles about the debate's degree of innovation (including a quote from A Familiar Online Politics Writer as well as some rather blunt opinions from the author of Cult Of The Amateur), a look at some tech - related questions that have been submitted, details about how the candidates will be trying to use the medium to their advantage, and of course, this little gem from Red State Update:

By this point, the party had become more of a cult of personality, attractive mainly to those who had a personal connection to the Fossellas, or were beholden to them.

Light and darkness have each chosen a champion to claim the legendary stones: The sorceress of the cult of she - dragon has chosen Drakkor, a warrior and mercenary who travels with bandits and a corrupt stone of darkness.

How can a hack like Roland Emmerich — a spare Sommers - ian fool and ardent follower of the cult of CG - destruction — ellicit such a fervent response from people who should know better?

Clearly the film rose out of the cult of teensploitation that seeks to rob pre-pubescent girls of their babysitting money, a trend traceable to the stunning popularity of Titanic among that demographic.

Released in 2003, his magnum opus of incomprehensibility is so bad that it's formed of cult of love / hate watchers.

For someone with a morbid curiosity of the cult of Scientology, Going Clear isn't exactly revelatory.

Silent Hill 3 is the sequel to the first Silent Hill (it has very little relation to Silent Hill 2) and continues the story of the cult of Silent Hill.

The cast of characters, including shiners, cowbots and members of the cult of the destroyer all have excellent one - liners and jokes.

It's time to take a look behind the scenes of the Cult of Chucky set from Winnipeg, Canada!

The fallout, obviously, of the cult of Twilight, Red Riding Hood is so poorly filmed that everything in it — everything — is funny, from a grieving mother pausing (and grimacing, in boss «Invader Zim» style) in the doorway of a pub to an obviously pagan celebratory dance sequence that doesn't quite jibe with the film's late - Christian histrionics.

Anyway, the heroes get involved in the strange rituals of the cult of Stirba.

The Kite Runner is irresponsible — a bull in the china shop of childhood; of the cult of manhood; and of the complexities of the world in which one finds oneself ensnared.

Whether audiences will know what to make of it is an open question — if the actual film is a collision of several clashing tones, its trailer introduces a different one entirely — though acolytes of the Cult of Meryl could rally some support at the box office.

No, The Twilight Samurai seems an apologia for the romanticization of violence and, moreover, for the elevation of the cult of masculinity out of the mud of bestial muck — where it at least in some measure belongs — and into realms of ritualistic divinity.

If you or your administrators are concerned about the lack of specificity involved in grading with a single - point rubric, Jennifer Gonzales of Cult of Pedagogy has created an adaptation that incorporates specific scores or point values while still keeping the focus on personalized feedback and descriptions of successful work.

They do keep it all in the family of the cult of Common Core.»

If you are a member of the Cult of Volkswagen, this is the ultimate hatch.

Their philosophy of maintaining a balance with nature is the ground stone of their religion, a kind of cult of the wolf.

Indeed, it's believed that the rite originated with the ancient Thracian peoples of Greece as part of their cult of sun worship.

It is a wonderful social satire, a send - up of the cult of the dead author, and - in the best tradition of Frame - a fascinating exploration of the complexity and the beauty of language.

The cast of characters, including shiners, cowbots and members of the cult of the destroyer all have excellent one - liners and jokes.