Second, Anderson despised and attacked the creed of king and country, the cult of war memorials, national anthems, patriotism. |
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The nineteenth century cult of domesticity located its origin in this revolutionary development. |
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Every President colludes with the American people to create his own cult of personality. |
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The fellow with the Village People mustache, who wears a white dress shirt and tie, is being marketed as a cult of personality. |
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I detest the cult of body fascism, the more so since I live in its global capital. |
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This is because the reconstruction of the temple would give control of the temple cult to the priests and Levites returning from exile. |
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This death cult should be regarded with abhorrence by all decent and right-minded people. |
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There are wedding songs, ritual songs, cult songs, lullabies, healing songs, and work songs. |
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Six years on it has become a cult movie, arguably the most original and underrated British film of the past two decades. |
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By 1976, the film had developed a cult following in America, becoming a favourite at drive-ins and in college towns. |
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However, as this was primarily based on a cult of personality, it was inevitably short lived. |
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The novel was longlisted for the Booker Prize when it was released, and remains a cult classic. |
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There's one track I'm sure will be a cult favorite, in which he advises the listener on the proper way to smoke a blunt. |
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What she found amazing in their culture was the cult of the mother goddess as the pillar of the family. |
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In stark contrast to so many other dictators, he never encouraged a cult of personality. |
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In an all girls school a young reasonably good looking man had cult status. |
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The company's determinedly low-tech adverts featuring real staff dancing to cheesy music have almost achieved cult status. |
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That, and the absence of crowds, has turned Monterosa into a cult destination for alpine ski bums. |
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Moreover, because each cult statue was attributed to a particular artist, it was also linked to a particular historic moment. |
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Sum Sae-Ng, 47, the leader, told officers that the cult worshipped ghosts and land spirits. |
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Already, a small cult of machinima has started up, using game engines as studios to create movie-like scenes. |
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It did remarkably well at the box office, and garnered a strong cult following among college-age Americans. |
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The in-jokes which helped to make the series such a cult hit among film buffs are also in abundance. |
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He has invigorated an apathetic fan base and developed a cult following among a student body that rarely showed its face in previous years. |
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The book developed an underground following, and Iceberg Slim became something of a cult figure. |
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As an aside, does a film adaptation of a cult or popular novel fall into the same area as is under discussion here? |
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Although cult images are recognized as the fons et origo of superstition and error, the legislation is unequivocal about saving them. |
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The cult of multiculturalism holds that all minorities are victims of the majority, and therefore minorities must always be blameless. |
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There had been a cult of gastronomy at the court of the Sasanian Empire and the caliphs of Baghdad gratefully adopted it. |
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Suspects ranged from a jealous ex-boyfriend to a satanic cult that had performed a ritual sacrifice. |
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As the film's cult appeal has grown, the stage show has also continued evolving. |
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The cult of St George was nurtured at the court of Edward III and the saint became a divine protector of English soldiers in battle. |
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In the field of Japanese studies, the cult of the shojo has received a great deal of attention. |
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It became internationally famous for its connection with The Smiths, the cult 1980s Mancunian band who posed in front of it for an album cover. |
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The package represents the folk scene in all its diversity, from cult figures to uneasy fusion-flavoured outfits. |
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Shooting took about a month and the film became a cult classic among many people. |
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The cult of the Virgin in the Middle Ages, he argues, led to the courtly love poets, the troubadours, idealising women in their writing. |
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I have not seen the film, but I understand that it has become a cult favorite among those who respond to millennial nostalgia. |
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Scholars are of the opinion that the devadasi cult came to Kerala by about around 6th or 7th cent. |
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Not Campbell, who employs all the quirks and mannerisms that have made him one of the most beloved cult actors of all time. |
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The company's ads have gained a cult following among advertisers and laymen alike. |
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Since the Governor's death, his friends and loyal servants have constructed around him a creepy cult of personality. |
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The film follows a bunch of strange characters in an isolated community and has proved a massive cult hit. |
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If we are a cult member, it may be a symbol of our sacred relations to the divine principle operating in the universe. |
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A former teacher founded the cult in 1969 and claimed to have shielded earth from extraterrestrial invasion on numerous occasions. |
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I expect that in a few more days we'll find out they've both joined a cult or something. |
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A mixture of passion, nostalgia, and masculine bawdy infuses the cult of youthful athleticism. |
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Leaders of the dreaded thuggee cult were trapped and held captive in tunnels by Major General Sir W.H. Sleeman. |
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What I saw was an evil, greedy cult attempting to strong-arm people into silence. |
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I feel pity for a people who let some self-appointed cult leaders do their thinking for them. |
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Furthermore, the ancient cult is explicitly designed to maintain racial purity through selective breeding. |
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The most famous of the Pop artists, the cult figure Andy Warhol, recreated quasi-photographic paintings of people or everyday objects. |
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A cult figure to the masses, controversies dogged him after that fantastic debut. |
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The film developed a sizable cult following, however, particularly in the comedy and hip-hop communities. |
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The cult of artistic and existential evasion in Dada and surrealism made suicide a leitmotif of literary life in inter-war France. |
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He's the gender-bending ex-truck stop hustler whose autobiographical novel made him a cult celebrity while he was still in his teens. |
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Hundreds of fans pressed around the Paris grave of The Doors cult singer Jim Morrison yesterday. |
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Pater's descriptions opened the eyes of the English decadents to the painter's enigmatic beauty, and he became a cult figure. |
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Society is dominated by consumerism and a cult of the body instead of the spirit. |
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The DVDs foster the cult of the cruelly cancelled show way too much for my taste. |
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Their costumes were based on cult Channel 4 programme Trigger Happy TV, in which the frontman does strange stunts dressed as a dog. |
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In fact, isn't the irony of this that the cult of life is elevating its gloriole in a society whose cultural output makes a fetish of death? |
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Virtually all cult systems develop some view of what happens to the human spirit or psyche after death. |
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Considered the centre of the Cyclades in Antiquity, Delos became the principal cult centre of Ionian Greeks from the 8th century bc. |
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The cult image of Artemis was brought out from the inner sanctum and, gilded and white, shone brilliantly in the morning sun. |
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Yet in many ways he remains an outlier and an oddity on the cultural scene, a cult figure with plenty of worshippers and plenty of desecrators. |
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His ceaseless sprinting on the wing against the Dutch went some way to copper-fastening his cult status around Lansdowne. |
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At least one underground temple catacomb has been associated with the cult of a Mother Goddess. |
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He brooked no rivals, anointed no successors and developed a cult of personality that was indivisible from his people's hopes. |
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The central symbol of much of the ancient pagan cult in biblical Canaan was the Ashera tree, symbol of the Goddess Ashera incarnate. |
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The cult of St Zita, a household servant saint, is a late medieval importation from Lucca. |
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The pre-Christian religion of the Fijians was both animistic and polytheistic, and included a cult of chiefly ancestors. |
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Once a cult activity among sports fanatics, fantasy games are going mainstream. |
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Monks promoted the cult of their own saints and could write disparagingly of others. |
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The personality cult of the Prime Minister grows bolder with each passing month. |
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This has been achieved without the kind of personality cult that surrounds her husband and his family. |
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Mercifully, the tyrannical personality cult has been vanquished and one man's maniacal hold on the populace is over. |
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But in spite of its collectivist ideology the system rested on a charismatic leader and a personality cult around him. |
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Having forced the main opposition activists out of the country, he has developed a personality cult unrivalled in Central Asia. |
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In addition, he encouraged his own personality cult among his people, acquiring the status of a semi-god over the decades. |
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Like all despots, he has built up a massive personality cult around himself. |
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From being a cult author, revered by the crime cognoscenti, he was suddenly in the bestseller lists. |
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Like so many ills of today's society, the cult of bigness has American origin. |
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Frequently these informants were simply adolescents seeking to frighten peers or parents, by fabricating evidence of cult ritual. |
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The phrase, almost a cliche in the cult of American hip-hop music, whips the crowd listening to Malaysian rap duo Too Phat into a frenzy. |
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It is not a fashion statement it is a cult statement in the same way that wearing a political rosette is, or that wearing a gang patch is. |
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The film was an instant cult classic, and rumours of a sequel have floated around the Internet for years. |
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She fled their home in anger and joined Diana's cult in the woods as a huntress. |
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It has something of a cult following and is particularly popular among students. |
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Despite its reputation as a cult classic, Blue Velvet has nevertheless been out of circulation for years. |
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Like SpaceNK's Nicky Kinnaird and the parfumier Jo Malone, she is basing her brand's appeal on choice, price and cult cosmetics. |
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The central part of the temple, called the cella, sheltered the famous chryselephantine cult statue of Athena, made by Pheidias. |
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It also seems likely that many cult followers have found a surrogate family and a surrogate mother or father or both in the cult leader. |
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The no-frills, minimalist homeware brand has long enjoyed cult status both at home and abroad. |
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The cult fiction collection presents four cheeseball attempts at low-budget horror that purposely elicit more laughs than chills. |
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The cult of the sudarium began in the twelfth century in St Peter's, and in the Western Church. |
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Indeed, Henry became so afraid of the cult that he ordered that the tomb be covered over. |
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Seabound exit from the cult compound was blocked by half a mile of chain-link fence, topped with razor wire. |
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That update of a stylish 60s cult show lacked the, well, style and cultishness of the original. |
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I had seen one too many cult films about Ouija boards to get one of those but the cards seemed safe. |
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However, once in a while, one of those no-hopers turns it around and becomes an unlikely cult hero. |
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He said attitudinal change among the people is a strong weapon to defeat the cult of violence. |
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His cult is one of the most ancient of Romans, probably derived from Etruscan or Oscan influences. |
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I seem to recall a criticism from an earlier age about the cult of celebrity. |
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It was also drunken frenzy which suggested to Nietzsche the ecstatic abandonment and orgiastic revelry of the ancient cult of Dionysus. |
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In politics, opposition parties were eliminated, and a personality cult was built around the figure of Mussolini, Il Duce. |
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The early-twentieth-century cult of the wilderness further boosted the popularity of night air among the health-conscious. |
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The belief in a mythical messianic figure named John Frum was the basis for an indigenous cargo cult promising Melanesian deliverance. |
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If Fox plays their cards right, they could have a cult show on the level of Seinfeld on their hands. |
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He even started a Sufi cult under his name that became also a place for mystics from different faiths too. |
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The room was hung with pictures of pastoral scenes and paintings inspired by the cult of Isis, who is symbolized by a cow. |
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He was not a common madman who thought he was God and established a cult dedicated to the veneration of himself. |
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In all of the cults, the killing of pigs was a major part of the cult activities. |
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Like The End Of Violence, it sometimes feels clumsy and ponderous, and seems unlikely to attract more than a cult audience. |
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However, the cult of the business personality was, in part, designed to serve as a distraction. |
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Racial and sexual politics as well as the cult of celebrity get the treatment. |
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But the stark, dystopian science-fiction tale has become a cult oddity if not a classic. |
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Surrealism has its appeal in the world of art, but science has no need to nurse a cult of parabiology. |
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He's currently negotiating with New York producers to mount his stage production of the cult movie Outrageous. |
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The film never made it to the big screen, but it became a cult hit on cable television and video. |
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The tripod is the symbol of Pythian Apollo whose cult lay at the root of the tenets of Pythagorean philosophical beliefs. |
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DeCredico's medium-size bronze sculptures, with their dark brown patina, make one think of cult objects or votive offerings. |
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Deodati's infamous video nasty is a cult film that deserves and will never get wider exposure. |
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His life changed forever when he watched a video of the cult film The Blues Brothers, starring John Belushi and Dan Ackroyd. |
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Bright and spacious, the walls are filled with coffee paraphernalia and cult comic books, shiny model Vespas and even shinier real ones. |
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He based a fictional bomber squadron on the island for his absurdist 1961 book, which became a cult classic. |
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Or perhaps they center too much on the cult of personality from the opposing side. |
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One can disdain the cult of personality, but one cannot dismiss the look of radiant delight on her friends' faces as they cluster around her. |
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Fans of this cult classic will be thrilled to see it in its original widescreen version, wall-to-wall with worms! |
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Stages of entry into the cult may be marked by transformations of the body or its adornment. |
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The industry is feeding the cult of personality to these architect winemakers. |
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Terms like goddess, Kali and destroyer mingle freely in reinforcing this cult of vengeful violence. |
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The cult of the saints began with the earliest martyrs, who had certainly proved their wholeheartedness. |
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The two former nobodies helped turn the fly-on-the-wall reality show into cult viewing. |
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The cult of the absurd gives way to his later rejection of nihilism, not by any clear intellectual choice, but by the process of natural growth. |
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This Montreal-based band has a cult following in Canada and is just beginning to make inroads into the British jazz scene. |
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The word soon spread, and woolly tights became something of a must-have cult item with all us children on the mountain. |
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Accordingly some aspects of domestic rectitude predated the cult of domesticity. |
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The cult of spirits, shamanism, and ancestor worship compose the three major parts of traditional Hmong religion. |
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Gleeful nastiness has pervaded and polluted both his plays and movies, and, sad to say, made him a cult figure. |
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In the late '60s, Sparro had been a folky four-octave songbird with a cult following, not that any of his albums ever charted. |
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It is more than telling that a well-nigh feverish and frenetic cult of the personality is at the core of this powerful display. |
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He got his break in 1944 with When Strangers Marry, a film noir and eventually a cult classic. |
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The mystical cult centre of the Yezidi is the Sephira Yesod or Yezod, the sphere of the moon, which is especially concerned with transformation. |
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If your party ideology is the cult of individualism, then it's no surprise they all see themselves as the alpha boss. |
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Nowadays, if scanning the movie listings gives us any indication, most of the foreign films being remade are cult Japanese horror flicks. |
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Such defiantly provocative work, and the uproarious punk music which accompanied it, won him cult status. |
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A sizable cult swiftly formed around the Montreal-bred boy wonder when it was released. |
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But he can't make himself larger than life, and neither can his cult followers, no matter how hard they try. |
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In 7th century India members of the Thug cult would ritually strangle passers-by as sacrifices to the Hindu deity, Kali. |
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There is a really ugly underbelly to the cult of the celebrity yummy mummy. |
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He liked the comparison, and believes firmly in the cult of the personality as a valuable element in business development. |
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He had sort of a cult following him, admiring and lauding his every action. |
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In today's physical fitness conscious world, yoga is popular enough to assume a near cult status. |
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But their cult is now in disarray, and the best writing of the moment has repudiated useless dogmas in favor of the fundamentals of storytelling. |
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Ripe, rich, and full of berries, this is the kind of wine that ensures Zinfandel its cult following. |
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The Bloor syncs up The Wizard of Oz to Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon in what has become a cult favourite for zonked hippies. |
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The religious life of the empire was dominated by Zoroastrianism, established as the state cult in the 3rd century. |
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For example, Hallowell found the bear cult was linked strictly to hunting success among the northern Boreal foraging societies. |
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Everything had a cult dedicated to it, from ancient mummies to nameless elder horrors. |
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Still others have cautioned against the spate of monuments that they see as celebrating the cult of the personality. |
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Since when had Jaws, the film that inaugurated the summer blockbuster, been regarded as cult fodder? |
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Even his later eminence couldn't turn him retroactively into a cult figure. |
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The next day after the demonstration class, we discussed his modern interpretation of the mythical past and of a cult figure. |
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His killers were women devotees of the old, displaced cult of Dionysus, who tore him apart. |
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Cobain became the figurehead, the cult figure, the hero to some. |
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Either a quintessential cult record or another cocky slice of childish bombast, the CD is still a more personal confession than many of its posey peers. |
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But it was in 1165 that Frederick Barbarossa had the Frankish emperor Charlemagne canonized and a liturgical cult spread across Europe thereafter. |
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The cult of saints and their relics explains the popularity of pilgrimage. |
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The cult of the ancestors is practiced among many of the ethnic groups. |
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With the cult of the personality now stronger than at any time in sport, sports companies have tried to associate themselves with successes that are viewed worldwide. |
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Does it bother you that there's a cult of personality built up around him? |
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During and after the war, a highly developed personality cult evolved. |
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He is a cult figure today whose books are expensive collectors' items. |
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In the US she's now a cult figure with a discography to match. |
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Find out what's new on DVD, including a ' 60s cult TV classic. |
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The cult following these films now carry is spectacular and deserved. |
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Jack's a hard-boiled private eye who narrates the entire film in voice-over, and who finds himself investigating an ancient Egyptian cult that worships chainsaws. |
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The band began to gig around London and gain a loyal cult following. |
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These temples would have housed the cult statue of the deity, for example the head of Minerva found at Bath, and were not used for congregational worship. |
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The death cult strikes again, unstoppable in its deranged religious mania. |
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You say cable news squanders its resources by descending to tabloid sensationalism, personality cult shows and aping talk radio with high-testosterone shout shows. |
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Conversely, it's also why Marlon Brando, who had a phenomenal cultural impact in his prime, was destined never to make it into permanent cult status. |
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The ritual practice of raising spirits in order to foretell the future was important to early cultures, but as time wore on, this death cult faced an enemy far greater than all the legions of Rome. |
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The discourse on xenoglossia reveals the extent to which Spiritualism's intellectual meritocracy, is rested on a corresponding cult of ignorance and radical idiocracy. |
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The forest as a state of mind is perhaps the religion of every dendrophile, a cult of people who feel changed and converted by spending time in a forest. |
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Well, he was on drugs, remarks Hitchens, who claims the cult is dying off. |
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Malone first met Anderson by chance over a decade ago following the release of the cult hit Donnie Darko. |
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In the last year, her fusion exercise class has attracted a cult following and become de rigueur among the celebrity set. |
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The cult of Pappy van Winkle By Elton Felton There are lines around the block and long waiting lists. |
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The cult of corporatism allows us to reimagine the corporation as our ultimate access point to the infinitude of possibility. |
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The film was critically panned upon its release, but has since gained a cult following. |
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This cult of drug-pushing doctors, with their co-dependent relationships with addicted celebrities, must be stopped. |
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There's a decent-sized cult coalition that seems to think this young whippersnapper will eventually do something other than grow his own mutual funds. |
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Crafting retro, custom-made skateboards, which quickly became cult favorites, the pair built DL Skateboards from the ground up. |
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Here, the acclaimed director of desperado and Sin City offers up his top cult films. |
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Members of the cult offer body sacrifices and worship the bones of their dead ancestors to ward off earthly evil. |
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The leading military minds of Europe, Tuchman believes, were entranced by the cult of the offensive. |
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The cult boardgame that was the entertainment of choice for anoraks and geeks in the days before the internet chat-room, Dungeons And Dragons has made it to the big screen. |
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Particularly disturbing, however, is that the reasoning behind this cult of euthanasia is thoroughly sound. |
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Through ceremonies like these anticlericals were creating a cult of the great man who died for his political principles, and whose memory can inspire the living. |
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The soft-core version included Raj revivalism, the cult of Merchant Ivory and interminable documentaries, coffee-table books, fashion accessories. |
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The cult of the mother-goddess predates the Aryan invasion of India. |
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The old cult of rugby, racing and beer no longer holds sway. |
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Rather than present a biting satirical assailment on religion, I shall present a puerile, lowbrow rant on religion's younger brother, cult worship. |
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Popular belief and practice could therefore persist in, for example, the cult of Bridget and the customs associated with festivals such as Lughnasa and Samhain. |
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She too has joined a cult of sorts, only this one is headquartered, rather uneasily, right there in Mapleton. |
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Emphasis on the sanctity of the human body can also be seen in the cult of the martyrs and saints, in which bodily remains are imbued with divine power. |
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It is clear that this statue was not the sanctuary's main cult image. |
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Paprika has a huge cult following and Nolan has quietly admitted a similarity. |
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Among the most vibrant evidence for the cult of the saints are the ex-voto gifts left in thanksgiving by pilgrims whose prayers had been answered. |
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For many years, the country was one of Europe's poorest, without a single major ally, dominated by Hoxha's cult of personality. |
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But the film has achieved a kind of cult status, spawning two direct-to-DVD sequels and an upcoming Spider-Man-like reboot. |
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Stories of these adventurers, like Livingstone and Speke and Burton, had a cult status in Victorian society. |
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The existence of the teraphim, or cult objects is an indication of family worship that is indirectly shown by the discovery of hundreds of figurines. |
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Do you go with former Jonestown cult leader and Butler alum Jim Jones or Johnny Carson's ex-saxophone player Tommy Newsom? |
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Even if people think that the Iraq war has made Britain a bigger target, they are still confronted with a fascistic cult of murder and self-murder which allows no compromise. |
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Hundreds of fans pressed around the Paris grave of The Doors cult singer Jim Morrison yesterday, 30 years after drug and drink excess claimed his life. |
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In its original weekday time slot, the show became an enormous cult hit. |
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I have had to re-examine this simplistic philosophy now I've relocated to southern California, where the cult of the body beautiful is pursued with religious fervour. |
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I remember in the bad old days when Rock Operas were about the War Of The Worlds, or a messianic cult based on a sensorily deprived pinball player. |
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Economists are exposed by climatologists as utopian fantasists, the leaders of a millenarian cult as mad as, and far more dangerous than, any religious fundamentalism. |
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And, whereas the townspeople start rioting and attacking the chain-smoking cult the Guilty Remnant, Nora is at peace. |
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The cult series' writer, producer and voice will take people back to the days of pounds, shillings and pence, tin baths and condensed milk butties. |
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The widespread popularity of the cult is evident from the records of Mithraea which have been identified all over the empire, and which are still coming to light. |
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For example, the cult of ancestors and tutelary spirits, which extend the community in time and space, contrasts with antisocial individualistic cults. |
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The disproportion between his new self-perception and his actual social status as an ordinary businessman and later as a derided cult leader was unbearable. |
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This cult classic vin Diesel clip from a British talk show is great for a number of reasons. |
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Seeing all the episodes on DVD, I am not surprised by my fair weather watching, but equally unsurprised that it inspired a cult fanbase to lament its demise. |
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They may be the product of a strong personality, but they do not depend in any way on the cult of personality for their power. |
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Good grief, I'll have MI5 watching me as a potential cult leader. |
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I think he was abducted by a cult that worship the demi-god Baal and forced to spin records at their parties and compose chants and songs which praised this demonic entity. |
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It was also filmed and the spin-off videos developed a cult following. |
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Oh, how indie it's become to turn cult films into musical spoofs. |
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The creators of cult the TV hit make their bid for big screen super-stardom with a comic spoof of George Romero's zombie movies, with surprisingly hilarious results. |
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He is also accused of using the pulpit to further a cult of personality surrounding himself. |
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As is the norm, NBC has yet to renew or cancel the cult show Community at the end of the season. |
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The absence of a well-organized cult does not mean the absence of ritualized abuse. |
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The cult of hard-headed routine and practicality, as expressed here, was often just another form of romanticism, and by no means always the most effective. |
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Padre Pio was a controversial cult figure and alleged stigmatic. |
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The whole cult of celebrity is so boring but the snobbery is just as bad. |
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I don't have any trace of the fanboy otaku fetishization of things Japanese that seems to elevate some of the lamest Japanese culture-crud to cult status. |
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Though it was a chart-topping album before it became a Broadway hit in 1971 and a film starring Ted Neeley and Anderson in 1973, the cult following remains strong. |
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His attempts to create even a modest personality cult failed. |
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We are being persuaded to select one personality cult over another. |
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His cult spoof horror show is the inspiration for a fund-raising day featuring a host of celebrities from the TV soaps, stage and screen and sport. |
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Both Judith Gautier and Gumilev inherited the Parnassian cult of the artificial, as well as its contempt for the slavish imitation of nature in art. |
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Spiritualism added the necessary pep to the cult of the nation. |
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But by opposing the myth of the objective reporter, don't you risk falling into the trap of your onscreen persona and the personality cult that grows up around it? |
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A huge personality cult surrounded her after her early death. |
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Today the Andal cult is not only popular in the whole of India but is gaining fast in the United States where separate fanes for Goda Devi have been erected in Hindu temples. |
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The whole farrago is so sublimely bad that it might become a cult classic. |
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After all, it's a catalog title, and a cult favorite at best. |
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Fans of this closet cult favorite will of course want to buy the disc. |
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Along with many exotic artifacts, Feng has imported the codes and language of courtly love, with its cult of indirection, of secrecy, and of long, slow, wooing. |
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The two big threats to an auditor's professional skepticism are familiarity with management and the cult of personality. |
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Trujillo's regime was marked by a massive cult of personality, comparable only to the cult of Stalin in Russia and Kim in North Korea. |
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With Mao as the absolute leader, the Cultural Revolution felt more like a religious or cult movement than a political or cultural one. |
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For instance, the cult of Sun was introduced in Rome after Aurelian's successful campaigns in Syria. |
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Because the cult of the six-pack reigns oppressively supreme. |
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The hilltop located outside Verulamium eventually became a cult centre devoted to Alban. |
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The story of the arrival of Dionysus to establish his cult in Thrace was also the subject of an Aeschylean trilogy. |
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It was here that the white-robed pontiff and the pink-robed great chief of Benin's vodun cult reached out to each other in friendship. |
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A coinage commemorating Edmund was minted from around the time East Anglia was absorbed by the kingdom of Wessex and a popular cult emerged. |
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The building cost 60,000 sesterces, with 30,000 more going toward silver cult statues of Caelestis. |
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Disabused former members investigated Lueken's cult critically for signs of fraud or demonic manipulation. |
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Eagle-eyed South African readers and rock fans may recognise the Evanescence guitarist from his time with cult post-grunge act Seether. |
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A COFFEE shop has been accused of glamorising drugs after selling cupcakes inspired by deadly crystal meth from cult TV show Breaking Bad. |
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Over and against cult stories were cult-buster ones, tales of parents kidnapping kids and turning them over for deprogramming. |
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The cult of Mithra had been spread by soldiers and had thrived particularly in the frontier provinces of the empire. |
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I would sooner consider that a cult since my taxes are coercibly taken from me, while my contributions to the ICC are voluntary. |
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Launched in 1990, Origins Peace of Mind On The Spot Relief is now a cult classic due to its destressing properties. |
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With wild turns from Gene Wilder and Zero Mostel, Mel Brooks takes Springtime For Hitler from highly dubious to lowbrow cult genius. |
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Among her conclusions is that such terms as cult and abuse are widely overused and perhaps should be retired as pejoratives. |
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We especially liked Pepperwood Springs Vineyards for its lofty view of the entire valley, and a Pinot Noir that has a cult following. |
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But he still gets sackfuls of mail from adoring Prisoner fans and requests to appear at conventions for the cult series. |
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After his death he became one of the most important medieval saints of Northern England, with a cult centred on his tomb at Durham Cathedral. |
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Durham soon became a site of pilgrimage, encouraged by the growing cult of Saint Cuthbert. |
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Cretans may have practised, such as fetishism, hoplolatry, dendrolatry, zoolatry, the cult of celestial bodies, ancestor cult. |
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Gregory was not popular in Rome, and it was not until Bede's Ecclesiastical History began to circulate that Gregory's cult also took root there. |
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Well, guess what the cult of speed gives us, whatever our partisanship? |
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Life partner sounds like someone you met in the cult who has pacted in blood to board the mother ship the same time you do. |
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Following this he teamed up with close friends Andre Magri and Chris Ridgeway from the Howling Sleepers and formed cult band Doofer. |
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I'm referring, of course, to Mike Gatting's performance on the cult Japanese gambling show Banzai. |
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In this way Mithras came to Rome and his popularity within the Roman army spread his cult as far afield as Roman Britain. |
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In the Roman Empire, emperors were deified, and the formalized imperial cult became increasingly prominent. |
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The cult comedy's characters Will, Simon and Neil fly to Australia to visit layabout Jay on his gap year. |
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It all adds up to the documentary the year thus far and, drum roll please, a cult classic. |
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One player definitely leaving Tayside is keeper, cult hero and all-round headcase Grzegorz Szamotulski. |
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As emperor, Domitian assumed totalitarian characteristics, thought he could be a new Augustus, and tried to make a personal cult of himself. |
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Warburtons' response to Hovis' time-travelling epic is a vaguely sinister head trip reminiscent of late 90s cult favourite Being John Malkovitch. |
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Purchased by the city of Knidos in the mid-4th century BCE, the sculpture served as a cult statue in the Temple of Aphrodite Euploia. |
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While newcomers to the QL cult won't mind, Leapers know their show and will surely object to the alterations. |
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It also contains his polemic with the avant-garde cult of metaphors as well as with postromantic poeticalness and easy melodiousness. |
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British defensive strategy revolved around offensive action, what became known as the cult of the offensive. |
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The text explores the success of YBA and the obsession of young British artists with commerce, mass media, and the cult of personality. |
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Witchfinder General Reviled on release for sadistic violence, Vincent Price's historical horror is now a cult classic. |
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There are cult goodies galore, but our faves are the spank-tastic Yes Mistress brand and the cute Eyeko range. |
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However, he was venerated outside England, mainly through the efforts of Boniface and Alcuin, both of whom promoted the cult on the Continent. |
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Music fans are creating a new craze by taking holiday snaps of their tiny hi-fis, then posting the shots on a cult website. |
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