Sentences with phrase «of cultish»

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What is clear is the strange environment that is revealed — a kind of cultish event with a very otherworldly soundtrack.

Never underestimate the power of a cultish fanbase to grow into a megaton of evangelism given a couple of years» downtime.

But you can take it further and see that all the characteristics of a cultish, religious ideology line up one by one with corporate ed reform planks to match.

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 properties.

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.

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.

The most amazing performance of many, just because of who he is, may be Tom Cruise's as the charismatic guru of a cultish self - help «seminar» that teaches would - be macho men how to «Seduce and Destroy.»

It's funny and somewhat depressing, which also pretty much sums up the «The Room,» one of those cultish attractions that is so terrible it makes you wonder if the laugh finally is on us.

HBO had a surprise hit on their hands with the first season of their ongoing miniseries, True Detective, which stars Woody Harrelson and Matthew «Always Google My Name Before You Spell It» McConaughey as two Louisiana detectives on the trail of a cultish serial killer.

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

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.

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She saved most of it to start her own fashion retail site, Nasty Gal, a fashion website that attracted a cultish following among millennial girls tired of Abercrombie, Aeropostale and American Eagle.

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.

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.

While their are different brands of conservatism emanating from the school, from social to economic, one observer of the Calgary School reflected on its almost cultish following of libertarian economists Ludwig Von Mises and Milton Friedman.

When you read the Book of Mormon you get a true idea of how cultish this religion is.

If it causes them to commit acts of hatred and prejudice, then it is nothing more than a cultish perversion.

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

No more a cult at this point than Christianity, no matter what they may have been when founded — when founded, Christianity would have met the definition of a cult just fine too (I'll turn brother against brother, leave your wife — really, very cultish stuff from the early church).

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.

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.

cut the cultish crap and start watching the footy... maybe start with barca «s 7 nil drubbing of valencia and ask why we are so far behind them....

Along with «let's just support the players» it's part of a weird cultish mindset that has arsenal fans a bit like scientologists with wenger the L Ron Hubbard of football management... Everyone is a supporter of the club... Beyond that it's about the performance and results....

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.

The market honestly is not for the cultish class of rebel bodybuilders who want to get extremely massive and shake the earth at his every step.

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 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.

With time and understanding, maybe his Realm will prove a solid successor to «The X-Files,» his earlier hit, but that's assuming that more than Carter's cultish core fans stick around long enough to make sense of this elaborate war game inside a super-secret government virtual - reality setup called Harsh Realm.

While they're well - known as cultish fan events, some performers say they also serve an additional role as a place where lots of kinds of bodies can find a place to dance.

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.»

Wright continues his career - long winning streak, but the quirk of Scott Pilgrim vs. the World and the Cornetto trilogy brought only cultish success.

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.

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.

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.

The amber / yellow tinted look of the film gives an impressive aesthetic uniformity to the film that matches the cultish subject matter, and certainly marked her as someone to watch.

Playing Lancaster Dodd, the cultish leader of The Cause, Hoffman illustrates the charisma necessary to recruit a legion of followers while also depicting Dodd as a man, «a hopelessly inquisitive man.»

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 a romance, a tale of redemption and loneliness and cultish fascination, and probably a parable and a nightmare as well.

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.

A few weeks ago, certain corners of the internet were set alight with strange, cultish buzz, all because of a picture of James Franco.

Stanton first marries the elements of liquor and the sea, as the cultish group reportedly gets its start on a boat (where much of the film takes place).

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.

It was made of denim and looked vaguely cultish, but it was comfortable and, with leggings beneath, warm.

Manjoo's column, «Don't Support Your Local Bookseller» asserts that killing off indie bookstores might not be such a bad thing because they are, «some of the least efficient, least user - friendly, and most mistakenly mythologized local establishments you can find,» calling them «cultish, moldering institutions.»