In religious history, some Messianic figures actually believe their Messianism.
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Tiny Uruguay, with just 3.4 million people, has no messianic
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Again, this makes Messianic Judaism very appealing to many evangelicals.
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Messianic Zionism, of Amir's variety, has gained the upper hand.
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THE most esteemed Silicon Valley CEOs often have a messianic aura.
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XXXTentacion, messianic and immature, recorded "?" while on house arrest awaiting trial.
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"I had a very messianic childhood," Mr. Cohen would later say.
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"I would characterize him as a bit messianic," Montgolfier told me.
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"The messianic discourse of Pence is a gift to extremists", he wrote.
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His joyous enthusiasm for what he does has an almost messianic quality.
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Its overarching objectives are lofty and idealistic, bordering on a messianic zeal.
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A messianic zeal for the startup&aposs business is another common trait.
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Messianic Judaism accepts Jesus as the messiah and embraces the New Testament.
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In the 21st century, a new messianic religion has so far managed it.
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In 1969 an Australian Messianic Christian tried to burn down Al-Aqsa Mosque.
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Above all, Zuckerberg and his acolytes are guided by an almost messianic spirit.
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Russia's desire for great power status is tied to its perceived messianic mission.
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She has no patience for messianic rhetoric and hyperbolic slogans and grandiose speeches.
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Messianic Judaism has a long, complicated history in the United States and beyond.
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"Jews for Jesus" estimates that up to 125,000 people worldwide are Messianic Jews.
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The mullahs are not the "messianic apocalyptic cult" once evoked by Benjamin Netanyahu.
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He tries to nudge readers away from getting too fixated on messianic solutions.
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Around her, the Shiloh Messianic congregation, eighty or ninety strong, sang and prayed.
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I love this messianic concept that's explored by some of the European philosophers.
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But it has evolved into something of a messianic cult, centred around Mr Zakzaky.
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Raúl is temperamentally Fidel's opposite, a tidy, practical man, lacking his brother's messianic streak.
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However, Thunberg never asked to be the messianic-like face for the climate movement.
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It makes working at Facebook sound a lot like a messianic sect circle-jerk.
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The cult's messianic figure—due for a return, they believed—was called John Frum.
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Corbyn and the messianic fervor of his supporters standing in the way of a
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Messianic Judaism is the same faith but it is expressed within the Jewish heritage.
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Few movements are better funded and coordinated or more messianic than the environmental left.
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Super "white" man, however, is just a man made whiter and messianic over time.
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Because of its controversial status within Judaism, Messianic Judaism remains a politically charged entity.
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The last one I ended up at was a Pentecostal messianic Jewish cult school.
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French political culture, run through with a deep messianic strain, also abets this normalization.
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In 1969 an Australian Messianic Christian tried to burn down the Al-Aqsa Mosque.
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Why assume that Spencer has some kind of Messianic oratorical potency (especially when he doesn't)?
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Between each series of motions, she assumes a Messianic T-pose to recalibrate the equipment.
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The word "oligarchy" is important to Sanders, and it gives his statements a messianic tone.
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Messianic Judaism believes that Jesus is the messiah and that the New Testament is authentic.
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To /b/ (and much of the rest of the Internet), Cruise's messianic confidence was bizarre.
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Whether Messianic Judaism "counts" as Judaism is an open and in many ways insoluble question.
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Pence's choice of a Messianic Jewish rabbi was, within that context, a highly incendiary one.
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For the record, Messianic "Judaism" is a branch of Christianity & offensive to the Jewish community.
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Brilliant, obsessive, defiant, narcissistic, messianic and ambitious, Leary is for Boyle a low-hanging fanatic.
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What will remain after 47 years of Fidel's almost messianic leadership and absurd economic management?
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Fry, a Messianic Jew, was unmoved by their arguments, and the activists became audibly frustrated.
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Under the Trump administration, these eclectic, messianic and mostly untested projects have been gaining unprecedented momentum.
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By the way, if we're talking prophecy here, virgin births are a pretty big Messianic signifier.
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Throughout a topsy-turvy campaign, Trump managed to offer a consistent messianic message amid the noise.
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Peoples Temple emerged from the long and continuous tradition of messianic communalism in the United States.
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Greg: I mean, in the religion metaphor that would make him more like a Messianic figure.
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In 1969 an Australian Messianic Christian tried to burn down the Al-Aqsa Mosque, causing damage.
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Campaigning with Steve Bannon in Fairhope, Alabama, a week ago, Roy Moore struck a messianic note.
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The government then told some Messianic Jews that they were no longer citizens and must leave.
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In its more than three years in power, this government has been irrational, bordering on messianic.
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Critics view his agenda as a crazy hodgepodge of ideas bordering on the anarchic and Messianic.
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The answer is messianic politicians, especially presidents, to whom we give additional power to rescue us.
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"Bibi, on verge of messianic abyss, determined to go forward," he added, using Mr. Netanyahu's nickname.
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The elder Moon's Unification Church — which worshipped Moon as a messianic figure — became popular in America.
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Mexico has always had too few checks on the president, never mind a president with messianic tendencies.
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Declaring that the movement he has begun is "more than Bernie," Mr. Sanders sounded at times messianic.
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" Hitler presented himself in messianic terms promising "to lead Germany to a new era of national greatness.
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Messianic Judaism holds the belief that Jesus is the messiah and that the New Testament is authentic.
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Guaidó himself — once portrayed in almost messianic terms — is becoming less popular and drawing ever-smaller crowds.
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He becomes their messianic leader, and works to lead a revolution on the planet to overthrow the Harkonnens.
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If Netanyahu is now an Israeli moderate, what does that say about the extent of Israeli Messianic nationalism?
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Rare teas and misquoted 18th-century philosophersScobie paired a messianic vision with an outspoken passion for classical philosophy.
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The Messianic religious Zionism that holds all the West Bank to be Israel's by biblical decree is ascendant.
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The messianic religious leader has to be coming up with ever new visions and messages from the divine.
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Daenerys's messianic qualities and single-minded throne lust have always made her a dicey candidate for realm-ruling.
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The Russian Revolution mobilized a popular passion across the world based on Marxism-Leninism, fueled by messianic zeal.
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We won't wait anymore for some messianic figure from the left or right to fix it for us.
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As Chafe observes, the St. John Passion stresses Jesus' messianic nature and accentuates oppositions between good and evil.
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As the Washington Post notes, the major Jewish denominations and Israel view followers of Messianic Judaism as Christian.
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He can sound like a fiscally conservative pragmatist in one speech and a messianic rabble-rouser in the next.
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In Israel, they have been welcomed by a growing group of religious-nationalist Jews who share their messianic fervor.
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The win helped turn Sekulow, a self-described "messianic Jew," into a mover and shaker on the religious right.
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Look at forums, subreddits, and social media and you'll find a mix of messianic hype and joyfully vocal disdain.
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Doing something that other people consider insanity/impossible requires equal parts narcissism and a messianic view of technological transformation.
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However, Trump's followers ignore the implications, the reality of class domination — and instead focus on a magnetic, messianic personality.
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Punk took his very real straight-edge lifestyle and turned it up to a quasi-messianic, moralizing-asshole crescendo.
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Zimbabweans have been yearning for a messianic moment, and this is an opportunity for a shift from Mugabe politics.
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" Saeb Erekat, the chief negotiator for the Palestinians, said that Mr. Pence's "messianic discourse" was "a gift to extremists.
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For all his intermittent disclaimers about how past performance doesn't guarantee future results, he keeps slipping into messianic anticipation.
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Guardiola was greeted in England with a sort of messianic fervor; City had pursued him relentlessly for four years.
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The International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants for the LRA's messianic leader, Joseph Kony, and other senior commanders.
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But the outfit's Christian Cummings, whose excitable manner gives him a slightly messianic vibe, rushed to correct a misconception.
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Rather than buying into a company run by a messianic overlord with an insatiable demand for cash, investors balked.
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Beth Israel draws from the Charismatic movement, which has roots in Pentecostalism, and also incorporates elements of Messianic Judaism.
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Foreigners who have spent time with the Chinese leader suggest he has an almost messianic desire to save his party.
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A despot with a messianic streak who aims to rule for ever is not a recipe for long-term stability.
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He explains the competing tensions within Persian Shiism of temporal and spiritual legitimacy, intertwined with messianic revivalism, mysticism and dissent.
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Upon his arrival he is treated as a messianic figure by the moonpeople, his coming supposedly foretold in their religion.
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The very same people who are so messianic about carbon pricing today were unanimous in their scorn for the process.
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EW&F assumed a front-line status among such formidable company with their tight orchestration, infectious rhythms and messianic reach.
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We humanized King for our son, as a way to avoid turning him into a kind of messianic historical figure.
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It can open the way to a kind of messianic nihilism, or belief that violence can inaugurate a better world.
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In the seventeen-fifties, he accumulated thousands of followers among the Sabbateans, the messianic Jewish sect to which he belonged.
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The modern movement of Messianic Judaism is relatively new and started to take shape with the help of mass media.
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"David was messianic about overpopulation," Virginia Carter, a former executive of Mr. Lear's production companies, said in a telephone interview.
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"The somewhat Messianic vision of being on Temple Mount — I don't think the young Israelis understand the consequences," she said.
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Chalking up the debacle of Iraq to "the messianic tradition in American foreign policy," as he does, simply won't wash.
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But the vision of Messianic redemption suffered a blow with Israel's unilateral withdrawal from Gaza in 2005, Mr. Goodman argues.
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"His worst quality to me was that he had a little bit of a messianic complex," Scaramucci said of Bannon.
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Journalists and policy makers veered between bitter demonization of the country and Messianic fantasies about remaking it in America's image.
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The most successful and enduring Christian communalist sects were led by individuals who claimed messianic stature and a God-given mission.
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It is clear that one man with a messianic streak will dominate the fund as well as the running of SoftBank.
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Given a zealous or messianic personality, this rule — which says events can be determined at the extremes — can overcome the others.
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Sanders has positioned himself as a leader for the future of the left, and his followers agree, with near-messianic worship.
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In the narration that accompanies the video, Weems probes the rhetoric — messianic, paranoid, vitriolic, deranged — directed at the first black president.
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Jacobs is part of a controversial tradition, Messianic Judaism, which critics deride as a form of evangelical Christianity masquerading as Judaism.
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His personal incorruptibility and humble lifestyle feed into his messianic aura — his supporters chant that it's an "honor" to support him.
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Read: Charles Manson: Messianic leader of a death cult The following night, Manson's followers murdered Leno LaBianca and his wife, Rosemary.
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True, those ties tend to migrate off the centerline, his shirt collars curl at the ends, and his hairstyles skew messianic.
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The piercing cries of "Jerusalem!" seem to express both a longing for escape and the messianic tendencies in Benjamin's unorthodox thought.
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Each of these far-right candidates has acquired an all but messianic following, though each is beginning to worry their nations' electorates.
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This was the Cuban government's way to promote its own messianic politics and present a positive image of itself to the world.
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Another quarter-century of uninspired leaders imploded into the Great Depression; FDR ascended to the almost messianic pantheon of Washington and Lincoln.
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Since the existence of Blue Origin was made public in 2003, Bezos has cast the effort in deeply personal, even messianic terms.
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In recent years, several distinct themes have emerged from the Kremlin: sovereignty, conservatism, orthodoxy, and a messianic drive for great power status.
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Jacobs is a Messianic Jew, which is to say someone who claims to be Jewish but also believes that Jesus is divine.
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The website of Shema Yisrael is very clear on this point: In one sense, Messianic Judaism and Christianity are the same thing.
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And López Obrador, who maintains messianic status among supporters, will face high expectations for campaign promises to quickly be put into action.
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Yet his stage presence wasn't messianic, just that of a guy who's finally done this for long enough that it's second nature.
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In this telling, Mr. Bush's religious piety took on messianic fervor leading him to turn democracy promotion into a mission from God.
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"For the record, Messianic 'Judaism' is a branch of Christianity & offensive to the Jewish community," Rabbi Miller wrote in a separate tweet.
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The plot concerns a messianic Stranger who arrives and brings what the libretto euphemistically terms "love" to a tyrannical Ruler's oppressive land.
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There is a genuine linkage of religious fervor (which it seems just to call messianic) between Mr. López Obrador and his followers.
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It returned toward the end, with the obliteration of King's Landing, to the idea that missions of liberation can become messianic massacres.
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In so doing, Gamache has become to Canada what Hercule Poirot is to Belgium, and garnered Ms. Penny legions of messianic fans.
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He has an almost messianic side: A brash claim in a 2005 interview that "I will save classical music" ruffled some feathers.
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At this point Brinkley's public rhetoric started taking on a messianic tinge, promising not only reproductive health but "True Happiness" to his clients.
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The vision of a new Middle East was a "messianic" one, Mr. Goodman said in an interview, and Mr. Peres was its prophet.
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But it appeared that Jacobs had been involved in theological disputes with other leaders of the Union of Messianic Jewish Congregations, NBC reported.
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But what he is is he's got this messianic complex about himself where he thinks he has the answer and others do not.
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" Yet somehow during his presidency he became this messianic figure who was going to lead a "glorious dance into a shining new era.
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Members aren't pressurized into abandoning their jobs and familial relationships or to believe in a "Messianic 'apocalyptic' sect shrouded in secrecy," it said.
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To stay updated on when The Sandwich will make its messianic return, Popeyes wants you to download its app and activate push notifications.
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The overlay of glass, steel and messianic zeal doesn't necessarily heighten the sexual tension; pheasant under glass, after all, is still just pheasant.
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" She said in a statement, "So-called Messianic Jews are not a part of the Jewish community, and espouse views considered deeply offensive.
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The notion of governments being suspicious of a messianic personality -- and the effects of modern mass media -- add intriguing wrinkles to the series.
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If the result is essentially a reliquary display (an idea that might have appealed to Varble, who had a messianic streak), it works.
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With messianic fervour, he conjures up marginalised voices and the horrors of mass incarceration, against a backbeat of sporting thrills and that apocalyptic crescendo.
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Of course, when the Philadelphia Zoo announced the birth of the same type of gorilla, Harambe enthusiasts took the news to be positively messianic.
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The in-breaking of the radically new, in art, in life, and in the religious imagination ("the messianic") is only graspable through the old.
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News outlets are now labeling him "Hysterical Freeman" ... bringing in psychiatrists who say he has a "Messianic complex" from playing God and the President.
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She freed those slaves, took over Meereen, made all sorts of messianic promises ... and then ruled so badly that everything fell apart beneath her.
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" And Nobel Prize winning economist Paul Krugman wrote in The New York Times last month that the theory's supporters were "messianic in their claims.
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Most Jews, of whatever religious views, reject the idea that Judaism and Christianity are compatible and believe that Messianic Jews are in fact Christians.
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Ms. Bickert is messianic about openness — she points out that Facebook was the first large platform to publish its entire community standard rule book.
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I am a Lithuanian-South-African-British-American Jew who, strangely, does not like walls, fences, hard borders, Messianic nationalism or race-baiting bigotry.
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Ramon's messianic nickname, and his soothing effect on his parents, may well turn out to have some connection to this 11:11 story line.
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The more messianic Wilson acted, the more his aura shrank, especially as word trickled back from Washington that he faced rising opposition in Congress.
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Back then, anti-gay prejudice was far more acceptable than it is today, but Moore's messianic denunciation of a lesbian mother was still shocking.
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This was a boost to uncompromising nationalistic visions on both sides, giving birth to a messianic settler movement and violent strains of Palestinian terrorism.
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Brazilian citizens should avoid electing "messianic" leaders who portray themselves as saviors promising to fix the country's problems without a realistic plan, Setubal said.
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It is not inevitable, however, that those people will be led by an expansionist, imperialist regime with a messianic zeal to dominate the region.
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He has survived them all, commanding a messianic charisma over the 245,000 followers who he says the church has in South Korea and abroad.
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Bono's writing has its comic qualities — messianic grandiosity, overambitious clunkers about refugees and rock 'n' roll — but that is essentially the guy's job description.
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Russian media has called Freeman an "American propaganda mouthpiece" with a "Messianic complex" that he picked up playing God in that Jim Carrey movie.
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Mr López Obrador is a conundrum, who can sound like a fiscally conservative pragmatist in one speech and a messianic rabble-rouser in the next.
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The children, some of whom were fathered by LRA's messianic leader, Joseph Kony, often drew themselves and their siblings with sad faces after the war.
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But miraculous feats do not necessarily make messianic figures, and having a meaningful impact does not necessarily create a sustainable movement, let alone a revolution.
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American politics, as Alexis de Tocqueville once observed, has often had a religious character to it, with the nation itself exalted in a messianic way.
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It combined a desire for American global dominance, imposed by force, with an almost messianic belief that this dominance would naturally sow freedom and democracy.
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I think it's more likely than not, partly because of the gap between the messianic rhetoric of crypto and the much more mundane real possibilities.
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The major Jewish traditions and the state of Israel itself treat Messianic Judaism as a form of evangelical Christianity rather than a historical Jewish tradition.
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However, many Jews from mainstream traditions see in Jews for Jesus, and in Messianic Judaism more broadly, a dangerous theology that borders on anti-Semitism.
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Yigal Amir, Rabin's killer, uprooted the Oslo seeds of peace by assuring that Israeli Messianic-nationalist religious ideologues got the upper hand over secular pragmatists.
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Theatrical thinking is both more cynical and more messianic: How do we create a martyrdom performance that will show the world how oppressed we are?
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And there was certainly something messianic about Alan García circa 1985; he was a firebrand, a vocal anti-imperialist, a popular hero of the left.
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But while Carson's bootstraps conservatism and messianic gibberish galvanized evangelical voters for a while, Republicans weren't really looking for good and honest this election cycle.
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These aims jibe nicely with those of messianic Christianity and of the contemporary social justice movement: they all meet in a desire for social transformation.
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The American messianic impulse is based on a fundamentally irrefutable truth first observed by the Puritans: The injustices of capitalist culture cannot be reformed from within.
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While railing against foreign depredations, he called for Chinese to embrace Western freedoms and rights (Sun's messianic drive may have derived from his version of Christianity).
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Before becoming a wise-cracking grandfather on network television, Laurence Fishburne was Morpheus, whose faith in Neo's messianic destiny parallels John the Baptist's faith in Jesus.
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Certainly, the messianic notion of bringing balance to the Force is a tall order, and the pressure of being the Chosen One already destroyed one Skywalker.
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Later, another character tells Ali that we've all got a sort of messianic self, that we can all be our own saviors and our own damnation.
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Beyond that, an aura of almost messianic promise gathered around Mr. Parker (who plays Nat Turner) and his movie, which assumed an uncommon burden of importance.
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America's messianic missions in Iraq and Afghanistan hadn't gone well, and Obama was too young to have been inculcated with the logic of the Cold War.
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Among devoted conservative Christians like Pence, so-called Messianic Jews are valued as evangelists for Jesus whose special interest lies in converting Jewish people to Christianity.
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It's essential to appreciate, however, that there was no pre-existing expectation of an atoning messianic human sacrifice in the complex Judaism of the first century.
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But she's largely defined by her messianic streak, a quality that in its most extreme form can — much like Targaryens, we're repeatedly reminded — go either way.
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"Boozy," another Les Frères show, featured Robert Moses as a messianic figure, and cast Jane Jacobs, the anti-development advocate, as the villain of the piece.
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That said, I do think we'll come to understand what Kevin has been experiencing since the beginning of the show — the hallucinations, the potentially messianic qualities.
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The anti-cult obsession had deadly consequences for the Branch Davidians, a messianic society led by Vernon Howell, a prophet who had taken the name David Koresh.
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Particularly in its final years, Peoples Temple exploited human tendencies for religious zealotry and set them to work toward a violent extremism that previous messianic societies lacked.
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It's obvious to all but true believers that the president is unhinged; there's an increasingly messianic, Jim Jones quality to the revival-like rallies she presides over.
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They want to trigger a showdown in a city named Tibet between the west and themselves which they believe will trigger the arrival of their messianic figure.
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IT TAKES guts to challenge both Andrés Manuel López Obrador, a messianic, silver-tongued populist, and the residual political machine of Mexico's governing Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI).
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Inserted into the middle of a city whose dominant industry is high finance, "Big Bling" may be seen as a messianic admonition to those who worship money.
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Shema Yisrael is a synagogue devoted to Messianic Judaism, which is to say, towards a faith that mixes Jewish cultural practices with a variation of Christian theology.
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Lyman was developing his messianic personality and attracting lost souls whose drug abuse or other life experiences had left them seeking a sense of structure and community.
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But befitting a spiritual man whose art was nourished by Judaism, Catholicism and Buddhism, Cohen attracts a form of devotion here that can border on the messianic.
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In 2018 messianic populists who railed against corruption and crime won presidential elections in Brazil (the conservative Jair Bolsonaro) and Mexico (the leftist Andrés Manuel López Obrador).
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The BBC reported that the Rossiya 24 news channel had assembled psychiatrists who attributed his comments to a Messianic complex resulting from playing God in several films.
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He's less an ordinary candidate than a symbol to be punctured, and Sanders should make the argument that it's Biden, not him, who embodies unreasonable, messianic expectations.
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"In Pursuit of Silence" isn't what you would call a well-rounded or intellectually rigorous documentary — it's too messianic for that — but it is an interesting one.
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It felt like a group therapy session or mass purging conducted by a leader, who, as a result of the dynamic, couldn't help coming across as messianic.
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I believe there is an honesty of character and a generous openness that John inhabits quite naturally and that allows him to be seen as a messianic figure.
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It's rare to get second chances like that in life, and it was really rewarding to get that "second act," so to speak, to demystify a messianic lover.
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The church has had a priest named Jude (Rob Lowe) vetting the many messianic claims that the apocalypse has generated, and it wants a savior no matter what.
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Still, he'd named his band after the practice of public worship, and over the past few years, he's written and spoken repeatedly about music's "Messianic" politics and potential.
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Ms. Beard had learned she had Jewish ancestry and became interested in messianic Judaism, which recognizes Christ as a spiritual savior within a context of traditional Jewish practice.
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But the calumnies of the left do not, ever, justify supporting the delegitimization of democratic Israel from Israel's right-wing government and the messianic idolaters it bows before.
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The idea of a special messianic "mission" for Jews achieved an apotheosis at the conclave of rabbis in Pittsburgh who established what became known as Classical Reform Judaism.
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The messianic Musk had wanted to oversee the first vertically integrated clean energy company; instead, he created a fiasco that is threatening Tesla, the cornerstone of his empire.
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He shouldn't have to accept his predecessor's executive decision to concede that status to a messianic state that has shown no signs it has changed its ways. Gen.
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Obama's policy was influenced by his own realist thinking and to some large degree was also a reaction to what he saw as Bush's messianic rhetoric and overreach.
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Some messianic next-generation internet protocol is not likely to emerge out of Department of Defense research, the way the first-generation internet did nearly 50 years ago.
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Like Thomas Lake Harris and Cyrus Teed, two of his forebears in American messianic thought, he sees a new race evolving to supplant the old "corruptible," decadent, miserable humanity.
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Instead, they traveled to cities that can't even supply tap water without killing people in some sort of messianic belief that they are going to Solve It With Tech.
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What he is, he's got this messianic complex about himself where he thinks he has the answer and others do not ... He's now, at least, admitting he's a racist.
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Elizabeth Holmes, the founder of Theranos, the failed blood-testing group, convinced shrewd investors and powerful men like Henry Kissinger with her messianic vision of supplying affordable health care.
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Revolution in November of the previous year had swept away the King of Bavaria, installing a ramshackle regime headed by a messianic journalist of the radical left, Kurt Eisner.
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They are Andrés Manuel López Obrador, a messianic left-winger who is Mexico's new president, and Carlos Slim, a gruff telecommunications magnate and one of the world's richest men.
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" And a Russian TV channel accused Freeman of falling prey to "a Messianic complex resulting from playing God or the president in several films, not to mention 'drug abuse.
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The book, which detailed Mr. Lafferty's brutal crime, messianic delusions and decades of appeals, was criticized as anti-religion by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
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There are, to be sure, people who call themselves "Messianic Jews" but that designation is regarded with suspicion by mainstream Jewish groups, who see this position as covert proselytizers.
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Sekulow grew up in a Jewish family on Long Island, and, after a religious awakening during his college years, in Atlanta, he joined the Messianic group Jews for Jesus.
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Neymar finds it difficult to avoid yellow cards while playing for Brazil, while Messi has to face up to the expectation that he should be messianic for his country.
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Less predictable was the presence of Michael Vowell, the bearded, yarmulke-wearing senior rabbi of a messianic synagogue in Houston, along with his wife, Lauren, and their three children.
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UberCab — which shortened its name to Uber — was using technology to push a radical new urban vision, and it quickly became a poster child for Silicon Valley's messianic vision.
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The messianic push to settle the West Bank (and so the biblical Land of Israel) would shift religious Zionism from a marginal phenomenon to the heart of Israel's politics.
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If truth be known, I carried some rather potent messianic fantasies with me from childhood which I felt I had to control, otherwise they might get me into trouble.
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Amid the nightmares that suffuse the narrative, VanderMeer has dreamed up some fantastical creatures: a messianic blue fox, a dangerously violent duck and an ancient fish with a secret.
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He is depicted here with no indication of a particular political vision; he is not a messianic voice of third-world resistance, but a fallible, restlessly creative and melancholy man.
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It is the outward expression of a messianic ideology that, along with all the surveillance and repression, has kept the Kim regime in power for more years than seemed possible.
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" Midway through, the song moves through an improvised limbo and coalesces into a different tune: a march with lyrics about a messianic "blackstar" who also declares "I'm not a popstar.
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Mr Kaczynski, despite holding no government post, has embarked on a messianic mission to reinvent the Polish state to correct what he considers the injustices of the post-1989 settlement.
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In turn, she said, that could empower "more messianic trends within the Houthi movement that see events in the region as the beginning of the end for the Saudi monarchy".
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A Republican Party district leader in an overwhelmingly Democratic neighborhood, Mr. Barr's father criticized his liberal colleagues as sloppy thinkers with "messianic" complexes, earning occasional headlines calling him a maverick.
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Jacobs self-identifies as a rabbi, but the movement to which he belongs — Messianic Judaism, which sees Jesus Christ as the promised Old Testament Messiah — is controversial in Jewish circles.
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The documentation offers a small window into one of late capitalism's best kept secrets: How these messianic entrepreneurs talk behind closed doors when they fall so far from their ideals.
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In an era when coaches are supposed to be obsessional, visionary philosophers, imbued by fans and news media with almost messianic, transformative powers, Allegri runs a little against the grain.
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And they are furious at the growing influence of a quasi-evangelistic group of religious-nationalist Jews who espouse anti-feminist, anti-gay views and a far-right, messianic ideology.
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From that perspective, whatever the verdict on Koresh's messianic claims, the renewed fascination with Waco exemplified by these twin projects is evidence that there's plenty of method in their madness.
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"We're in a world war against a messianic mass-movement of evil people, most of them inspired by totalitarian ideology: radical Islam," he wrote in a book published earlier this year.
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The lyrics concern a messianic android named Cindi Mayweather and her quest to save society from suffering, inequality, and such ills, although it's easy to lose track of what symbolizes what.
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In temperament, Mr Jope could not be more different from his predecessor, Paul Polman, a self-confessed "Calvinist Dutch" whose messianic belief in long-term sustainability gave him a haughty air.
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Or that the entire structure of this tweet was weirdly messianic, transferring his personal enemy—in this case, an abstraction—onto the "people" (which in Trump's case strictly refers to citizens)?
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John Hagee, offered prayers at the embassy's opening that portrayed it as part of Christianity's grand messianic design -- a theological stance, needless to say, that is totally at odds with Judaism.
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On Monday, Vice President Mike Pence led a campaign event in Grand Rapids, Michigan where prayers were said by Rabbi Loren Jacobs, who is affiliated with the Messianic synagogue Shema Yisrael.
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There's more opposites attracting at Dragonstone, as Daenerys veers wildly between her messianic and evil-queen personas opposite Tyrion, who can't keep from pointing out her mutual attraction to Jon Snow.
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It was Mr. Peres who sealed an agreement on behalf of the government with Messianic protesters at Sebastia in the 1970s, allowing a group of them to stay in the area.
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The first was Tony Benn, whose fantasy politics and messianic egoism appealed to romantics, and who was only narrowly defeated in his bid to become the party's deputy leader in 1981.
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As episode's the title implies, "Crazy Whitefella Thinking" is in part about the arrogance of an outsider who embraces his messianic delusions at the expense of other people's feelings and property.
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Mr. Giglio, who identifies as a Messianic Jew — a Jew who believes Jesus Christ is the messiah — had been preaching and writing worship songs at a contemporary evangelical church in Tennessee.
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Together, characters like the politically savvy Sansa Stark (Sophie Turner), the assassin Arya (Maisie Williams) and the messianic dragon queen Daenerys Targaryen (Emilia Clarke) represent a broad range of feminine power.
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The eve before the opening, Ai seemed to hold nearly messianic sway over the audience gathered at a Q &A that, weeks earlier, had sold out in a spectacular two minutes.
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Even from those earliest days, known Qaeda terrorists were hiding within the Islamist ranks, and I'm not saying it would have been easy sifting out the moderates from the messianic killers.
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Still, he repeats the impressive trick of creating a character so peculiar, vivid and appealing (think of Owen Meany minus the messianic complex) that Edgar becomes this ambitious novel's enduring reward.
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The Shin Bet pointed to links between the yeshiva, or religious school, attended by the suspect in the stoning case and the kind of anti-Zionist, messianic ideology behind the Revolt.
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Young, who over the years increasingly presented himself as a messianic figure of the underground, guarded all the tapes of their collaborations, and refused to let them out of his sight.
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Historians have argued that "the French Revolution turbocharged...French nationalism by infusing it with a messianic ideological impulse," driving it to export its revolution in order to overthrow the European monarchic order.
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" The original Moon founded the Unification Church in Korea in the 26s, years after he'd escaped from a labor camp in North Korea, where he'd been imprisoned for preaching a "messianic message.
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He also offered membership in an umbrella group with a vaguely revolutionary, messianic name—the Movement—that would yoke their various parties together under a unified Bannonite theory of global anti-globalism.
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Even if the business lines were widely derided, their grandiosity helped Mr. Neumann cast WeWork as a tech start-up, so many of which are known to have nearly messianic mission statements.
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Its messianic former editor, Alan Rusbridger, has been unceremoniously booted from his proposed emeritus role — a sort of guardian of The Guardian — as the head of the trust that bankrolls the paper.
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Asserting that his nomination comes at a moment of national crisis, of "poverty and violence at home, war and destruction abroad," Mr. Trump offered no solutions beyond his messianic portrayal of himself.
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Real Jewish leaders were outraged by Pence's legitimization of Jacobs, who calls himself a Messianic (or Christian) Jew and who believes that real Jews, who don't accept Christ, are doomed to hell.
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Mexican voters frustrated with the current government's corruption are turning to AMLO and his messianic assurances that he will clean things up overnight through the sheer force of his personality and example.
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But I came to feel that M's mission was precisely the messianic task of redeeming some dude who wants to tell you how he chain-saws ancient tree trunks into patriotic eagles.
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De Carvajal, a trader, was arrested around 2000 as a proselytizing Jew and, while in prison, began writing a sometimes messianic memoir, the "Memorias," on pages roughly 5003 inches by 2500 inches.
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Sophie Jaff, who is working on the messianic dystopian thriller, the third in a trilogy scheduled for publication next year by HarperCollins, said she shared her fears and complaints with other writers.
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LONDON — About 30 or so years ago, painting's grand State Funeral at Westminster Abbey in London was attended by a messianic multitude of artists of a fairly conceptual or New Media stamp.
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Mr. Obama thought Mr. Bush's democracy push was too messianic, but he did encourage protesters during the Arab Spring and he did suspend some arms sales to Egypt after a military takeover.
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Ted Cruz's imperiled, vaguely messianic campaign for president was bound to cause some to Remember the Alamo this week, even before Cruz started making rather ominous references to patriotic martyrdom on his own.
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Worshippers of R'hllor believe that the struggle between the Lord of Light and the Great Other will continue until a messianic figure, commonly called Azor Ahai, is reborn and claims his sword, Lightbringer.
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He's referred to the threat from Palestinian militants as a "cancer" that has "to be severed," and bashed Secretary of State John Kerry for his "obsessive" and "messianic" commitment to the peace process.
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By and large, however, American messianic experiments in apostolic socialism appealed to converts' highest ideals: they stood for equal access to jobs and education, gender parity, racial justice, and more dignified human labor.
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With this mix Harvey, a bloke who looks a little like Jesus, and quite possibly has a touch of the messianic about him, took his rightful place as the best fucking DJ around.
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Nonetheless, so-called 'Messianic Judaism' is not a Jewish movement, and the phrase 'Jews for Jesus' is a contradiction in terms, insofar as Judaism does not recognize Jesus of Nazareth as the Messiah.
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And so when you're a messianic figure like that you do things that I said: You focus on your own brand, you care only about your personality, it's your way or the highway.
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None of it comes to life without his pseudo-messianic cachet, or the countless risks he took trying to reach the summit of a culture that repeatedly tried to knock him back down.
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Always the books are lit by a strange messianic energy, shored up by dubious data and structured around a moment of crisis and revelation as some veil — some long-held notion — falls away.
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In a time tainted by curatorial hubris ranging from the revolutionary to the messianic, in which art so often becomes instrumentalized, Tohmé's proposal was refreshingly modest and placed the artists' work center stage.
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Messianic sects like the Shakers, the Universal Friends, the Brotherhood of the New Life, the Koreshan Unity, and the Peace Mission were a consistent feature of the progressive Left of religious culture in America.
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It has done so by avoiding, for the most part, the dangers of conflating human salvation with the destiny of a single individual, and by reconciling American messianic thought with its old adversary: capitalism.
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Uruguayans have a healthy mistrust of charismatic, messianic leaders, which preserves them from the bane of presidents dubiously extending their term limits, as we have seen in Venezuela, Ecuador and Bolivia in recent years.
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Other plotlines just don't make sense, like Anakin being a messianic virgin birth destined to save the galaxy or Credence's secret heritage being tied up with that of the Dumbledore family, timeline be damned.
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Yohana Desta: I think that TPAB reference operates on two levels — Kendrick the artist, preaching about what he's created, but also Kendrick the flawed messianic figure, asking God what it takes to be forgiven.
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Based on his actions in the premiere, it seems that Sandor Clegane might be The Prince That Was Promised, a messianic "savior of Westeros" that exists in the religion of The Lord of Light.
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If you are disturbed by amplification — I'm not, so much, but others speak with messianic zeal on the point — you'll be annoyed that everyone wears a mike, seemingly unnecessary in such a small space.
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For instance, they initially categorized Messianic Judaism as a Jewish sect, failing to notice that its adherents, who follow many Jewish traditions, believe that Jesus Christ was the Messiah, a defining trait of Christians.
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To explain all of this in terms of a misplaced messianic impulse — the self-described indispensable nation having a bad run of luck — may play well in Washington, where serious introspection is rarely welcome.
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One song on his 1996 album, "Endtroducing," is carried by a piano riff he found on a 1970 album by an unknown messianic rabbi/pianist, paced by percussion from a high-school-band record.
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Washington (CNN)Jewish leaders from both political parties said Tuesday that it was "offensive" and "disappointing" to have a Messianic Jewish minister open a campaign event attended by Vice President Mike Pence on Monday.
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Like Trump, Trump Lawyers tend to have something of an attention-grabbing rebellious streak: Sekulow, who grew up Jewish in Brooklyn, now identifies as a messianic Jew; he believes that Jesus is the messiah.
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Like Jack Nicholson's Randle Patrick McMurphy in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" and Angelina Jolie's Lisa in "Girl, Interrupted," they can appear supersane until their daredevil behavior reveals them as recklessly, self-destructively messianic.
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Judging by the titles of talks, the attendees at the conference tended towards the messianic: "The Mind and How to Build One"; "AI against Aging"; "Replacing Our Bodies"; "Modifying the Boundary between Life and Death".
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While the young Mourinho's messianic influence doubtlessly justified the decision on a practical level, there was a lingering sense that a wrong had been done which had, by command of the universe, to be righted.
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Previously it was a happy place where children played soccer, fell in love, and believed in their vaguely messianic leader to the point where they allowed him to feed their loved ones to the dead.
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He split in the early 2000s with one of the major groups in the movement, the Union of Messianic Jewish congregations, over whether Jewish people who do not believe in Jesus still go to Heaven.
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Under George W. Bush, Republican rhetoric took a different turn — more overtly pious and messianic — but in the wake of Bushism's self-discrediting collapse, Nixonian themes have strongly reemerged under the leadership of Donald Trump.
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For Morris, that ministry set the tone for messianic sects that followed, from Ann Lee's community of Shakers and Father Divine's racially integrated communes in 1930s Harlem to the deadly Peoples Temple of Jim Jones.
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But when you have no political experience and when you have built your entire platform on a messianic appeal -- a savior myth built around the politician as strongman -- then it could very easily end in disaster.
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America's messianic societies were not perfect: In their quest to tame the vices of hypertrophied American individualism, some of America's messiahs engaged in forms of repression and control that most would consider authoritarian, if not abusive.
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"This is not time to be on the fence... Netanyahu's regime, with its radical messianic zealots and its corrupt leadership must be toppled," Barak said, in a reference to the prime minister's far-right religious allies.
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Jesus was Jewish, of course, and exorcisms in the Gospels (such when he drives demons into a herd of pigs) are consonant with the practices of other messianic groups of the era, such as the Essenes.
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Mao Zedong said that "political power grows out of the barrel of a gun" and saw the West, with its messianic reliance on democracy and the rule of law, as the Chinese Communist Party's existential enemy.
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After the military victory of 1967, which gave Jews full command of Jerusalem for the first time in two millenniums and was seen by many here as miraculous, the Israeli right became increasingly religious and Messianic.
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He wrote it long before becoming the polarizing figure he is today, a "cypherpunk" folk hero with an outsize reputation for being messianic, impetuous and all too cavalier with the personal data that come his way.
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And I met a great many believers in what is known as "the technological Singularity," a messianic prophesy of our coming merger with machines, most famously advanced by Ray Kurzweil, a director of engineering at Google.
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Ned Stark's noble honesty was shown to be too naive; the callous rule of the Lannisters meant their subjects showed them no loyalty; the messianic appeal of Daenerys led the character to morph into a fanatical dictator.
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In American Messiahs, journalist Adam Morris pulls from years of research into the messianic figures that have captivated Americans throughout history — including Cyrus Teed, Father Divine, and Jim Jones — and demonstrates their function within our nation's culture.
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Tsuki, the messianic leader of the Systemspace movement, claimed to have the ability to transfer registrants' souls to a superior, cyberpunk dimension called "LFE" if they signed up to the Tuski Project website before July 24858, 216.
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They need to revisit their curricula and promote — with the same messianic zeal that they promoted shareholders value — social cohesion by reducing income equality and including the interests of all who have a stake in the company.
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In response to the wave of messianic religious Zionism with its claim to the entire biblical Land of Israel, he arrived at the utter certainty that, on the contrary, land had to be given up for peace.
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Neo's status as a Messianic figure, with all his innate spiritual wisdom, became associated with Keanu himself — and just as with Bill and Ted, it was impossible to know whether the role or the actor came first.
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Lieberman is pushing for a "national unity" government after Tuesday's poll that would include his own party, Netanyahu's Likud and its strongest challenger, the centrist Blue and White party, but exclude what he calls "messianic" religious factions.
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Back in the year of my birth in this city—1970—back when Roky Erickson was still caterwauling Tommy Hall's messianic acid-drenched rock and roll testaments with the Elevators, Austin was home to about 250,000 people.
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The question as he seeks the presidency for a third time is whether he will fix some of what is wrong with Mexico, or replace its (admittedly imperfect) institutions with a more personal and messianic style of government.
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The Messianic Jewish movement as we know it today originated in the early 1970s, when Moishe Rosen, an ethnically Jewish man who later converted to Christianity and became a Baptist minister, founded the nonprofit organization Jews for Jesus.
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To them he is a near Messianic figure, the righter of capitalist wrongs; the proud socialist who will nationalize the railroads, make universities free again and inject billions into the National Health Service (while somehow balancing the budget).
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Prince Mohammed raised eyebrows during an interview in May when he framed his country's rivalry with Iran in sectarian terms, saying there could be no dialogue with Iran because it is trying to spread a messianic Shiite doctrine.
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His ego — the one that allowed him to have a fashion show in Madison Square Garden and claim he should be designing for Hermès — and his messianic sense of self fills the product with meaning for his consumers.
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Alright, fine, Messi looked more man than mortal in this game—it wasn't his greatest match against the Portuguese side Sporting CP in the Champions League—but that didn't stop one pitch invader from giving Messi the messianic treatment.
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And then, one day, as he was riding his bike in the California sunshine, enjoying the carefree life, no longer burdened by prophecies and messianic ambitions, he heard me on the radio, being interviewed about my book on Jesus.
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Inside the Quicken Loans Arena, a thicket of American flags behind him, he portrayed himself, over and over, as an almost messianic figure prepared to rescue the country from the ills of urban crime, illegal immigration and global terrorism.
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Contrary to myth, the caretaker generals of the Trump administration have not fully cleaned house, and to the extent that they've driven some messianic right-wingers from the administration, the imprint those departed staffers have left behind is unmistakable.
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It's no surprise, then, that politicians like Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil and Andrés Manuel López Obrador in Mexico — populists from both extremes of the ideological spectrum — have powered their leads in the polls with vague, messianic anti-corruption messages.
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Predictably, the Texas trip bolstered his messianic standing among liberals, and invited claims, from detractors, that he is little more than a flagrant opportunist, inserting himself, as The New York Post put it, into a fight he doesn't understand.
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How it has fed the rightward lurch that has buried in messianic nationalism the dream of a two-state peace and ensconced a leader, Netanyahu, who made it his foul business to bury Yitzhak Rabin's push for that peace.
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Neoconservatism, which had been around for decades, mixed humanitarian impulses with an almost messianic faith in the transformative virtue of American military force, as well as a deep fear of an outside world seen as threatening and morally compromised.
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If filmmakers Bonni Cohen and Jon Shenk were looking to turn the film into a messianic portrait of the former vice president—who's still showing the slide show to audiences all around the world—he doesn't quite take to it.
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In slave society, black preachers played an important role in the community: They acted as seers interpreting the significance of events; as pastors calling for unity and solidarity; and as messianic figures provoking the first stirrings of resentment against oppressors.
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Michael Bloomberg is now not only an esteemed thought-leader, but a kind of messianic figure regularly pitched by a determined cadre of centrists as a figure uniquely capable of addressing rising polarization and partisanship on the American political scene.
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One theory is that a younger generation of army officers, drawn from the lower middle classes and bloodied in the fight against home-grown militants who turned on the army, have a more Messianic impulse than older, whisky-swilling generals.
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It is plain from the many biographies and stories that surround her that Victoria Woodhull must have ruthless, believing herself to be an almost messianic figure—a woman full of power and love, who fought for the rights of all people.
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He has written about his disagreements with the group, on his website and in a separate essay, and about how Messianic Jews must "boldly declare the truth" to Jews and gentiles that they will go to hell without accepting Jesus.
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A controversial movement — one variously decried by mainstream Judaism and some Christian groups alike — Messianic Judaism reflects a wider theological alliance between (mostly white) evangelicals and a very particular understanding of Israel and its role in the world and God's plan.
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Neoconservatism, which had been around for decades, mixed humanitarian impulses with an almost messianic faith in the transformati[onal] virtue of American military force, as well as a deep fear of an outside world seen as threatening and morally compromised.
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Abrams, who also directed "The Force Awakens," the first chapter in this trilogy, suppresses that potential, reaffirming the historic "Star Wars" commitment to dynastic bloodlines and messianic mumbo-jumbo, even as he ends on a note of huggy, smiley pseudo-populism.
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In practice, as Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Walter McDougall explains in "Promised Land, Crusader State," the United States has oscillated between serving as a beacon to inspire peoples struggling for emancipation and donning the messianic mantle of a redeemer nation.
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The video features costumed performers in a surreal fable of a messianic martyr, absorbing the characters of Marie Debris and Stephen Varble into the artist's new world of performance, a world of which only a few hours of footage remain.
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"There was an air to both of them, a little bit of the born-again religious thing, and they viewed the S-1 almost on the messianic scale, that they were on a mission to save the world," the media source said.
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To his detractors, many in law-enforcement and among civil libertarians, he was a grand inquisitor who used illegal wiretaps, entrapment scams, unsupported allegations and leaks to the press in a ruthless, messianic pursuit of villainy that destroyed reputations and innocent lives.
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That being said, politics is undoubtedly baked into many Ufology circles, and many right-wing conspiracists who are into both UFOs and QAnon deem President Donald Trump to be some sort of messianic figure ready to save America from various secret evil cabals.
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Anti-American, messianic political movements can only succeed when the individual believes that his or her actions are determined, not by personal freedom endowed by the Creator, but by the destiny of the community, controlled by a ruling elite of commissars or mullahs.
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But while climate change has played to Mr. Obama's highest ideals — critics would call them messianic impulses — it has also exposed his weaknesses, namely an inability to forge consensus, even within his own party, on a problem that demands a bipartisan response.
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Three million years later, when he meets the last scion of Frankenstein's line, Lister discovers that his dream has been passed down through generations of Cat evolution as a Messianic promise of a promised land: Cloister shall return to lead us to Fuchal.
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Then in the early 2000s we seemed to have changed places: Under George W. Bush America was a revolutionary power, preaching the messianic faith of liberalism and democracy, while Moscow was a friend of strongmen, stability and the Saddam-era status quo.
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After Dennis Wilson, the hard-partying drummer for the Beach Boys, picked up a couple of Mr. Manson's young female followers while hitchhiking, Mr. Manson did his best to bring Mr. Wilson, with his sports cars and gold records, under his messianic spell.
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Messianic Jews are encouraged to retain Jewish traditions and holidays — Rosen's New York Times obituary in 2010 notes that he celebrated the major Jewish holidays of Passover and Yom Kippur throughout his life, and married couples underneath the traditional Jewish chuppah, or canopy.
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Dead Astronauts by Jeff VanderMeer | Buy on Amazon The characters around the trio, the dead astronauts, are even stranger, but also more folkloric: Botch; a messianic blue fox; a broken-winged duck; the antagonist Charlie X, a bad man with a worse father.
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Since shortly after the 1967 War, when the Israeli army took control of the West Bank, Ein Yabrud has been occupied by Jewish settlers, many of them messianic religious extremists, who founded the settlement of Ofra on land belonging to our village in 1975.
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Though the Smiths co-founders were once politically, creatively, and ideologically aligned, Morrissey and Marr now stand at opposite ends, with the former's ongoing lapse—from defending Harvey Weinstein to praising Brexit, among a laundry list of cultural infractions—tainting his long-standing messianic appeal.
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Some Jews believe that the movement the rabbi represents, Messianic Judaism, is not only antithetical to Judaism but also hostile to their religion because its goal is to persuade Jews to accept Jesus as the Messiah, and by doing so convert Jewish people to Christianity.
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For about 19803 seconds at the beginning of "Can't Deny Me," the first original new Pearl Jam song in five years, the band is downright itchy — Eddie Vedder trades the messianic for the agitated, the guitars are a little arrogantly lazy, the drumming is filthy.
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"The extremist positions of this U.S. administration and the biblical messianic message of Pence not only disqualified the U.S. as a peace broker but created conditions of volatility and instability in the region and beyond," Ashrawi said in the West Bank city of Ramallah.
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" Flynn, in a book with Michael Ledeen, a foreign policy wonk at the right-wing Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, wrote: "We're in a world war against a messianic mass movement of evil people, most of them inspired by a totalitarian ideology: Radical Islam.
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I actually wouldn't mind her dying for everyone else's sins — or dying at all (I'm good on Christ allegories, but to each his or her own taste in messianic tales), because that would certainly count as a total curveball in most typical YA dystopian-future fare.
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Sometimes unintentionally but too often by political design, he took the presidency's already overlarge role in American life and magnified it further — raising, through his own transformational-bordering-on-messianic political style and reluctant-but-substantial embrace of the imperial presidency, both perfervid fears and unsupportable expectations.
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David Makovsky, who served on Secretary of State John Kerry's peace negotiating team, also remembers Liberman as a "pragmatic" foreign minister and an ally Kerry's in quest for peace -- a stark contrast to Ya'alon, who reportedly said Kerry's diplomatic efforts were done out of "obsession" and a "messianic" sense.
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Earlier in the season, the messianic figure abandoned his longtime partner Nora Durst (Carrie Coon) in an Australian hotel room after a literally fiery argument, and now, a very complex scheme involving alternate dimensions and forced asphyxiation has forced him to see the error of his craven ways.
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At a time of heightened nationalist bravado and Messianic fever (coinciding with the collapse of empires and national-states), Cosmist ideas had a profound influence on the Russian psyche, and would later on become — together with the arms race —the unironic ideological basis of the Soviet space program.
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After scoring a gorgeous goal and providing two of the cleanest assists in recent USMNT memory—and not to mention fairly consistent play across his short career with club and country—pundits have been lauding Pulisic with messianic praise, claiming that he's the second coming of Landon Donovan.
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That Pence — an outspoken evangelical Christian who has frequently spoken publicly on the way he sees the political fate of Israel as inextricably tied to an evangelical understanding of the end times — should welcome a Messianic Jewish rabbi, rather than one of a more mainstream tradition, makes sense.
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In the wake of the shooting at the Tree of Life synagogue over the weekend that left 11 people dead, Vice President Mike Pence appeared with a rabbi at a campaign rally in Michigan — but the rabbi was a "Messianic rabbi" who's part of the Jews for Jesus movement.
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To Smolin, it seems like the movement has at last caught up with modern, secular discourse about child welfare: rather than make a messianic call for white U.S. evangelicals to save "Third World children," the church has been wading into the thorny, technocratic issues that dominate international child policy debates.
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Just to erase any doubts about the inspiration, said star is the most public face of a quasi-cult-like religion known as the Institute for the Higher Mind, presided over by a slick, messianic leader ("Alias'" Michael Vartan) who takes an inordinate interest in controlling his associations and career.
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Only a few years ago, some pundits and naysayers were beating the deafening drums of war by insisting that diplomacy will not work with Iran because its "messianic" Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, is hell-bent on making Iran a nuclear power and will never negotiate with the United States.
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And so Larry flew to New Orleans and watched the team he had cheered for since childhood through crushingly bad seasons in the 70s and 0003s receive the Vince Lombardi Trophy, which is named for the messianic coach that led the Pack to victory in the first two Super Bowls.
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For many white evangelicals, however, many of whom see the political fate of Israel as inextricably linked to Jesus's second coming, Messianic Jews represent a powerful instrument: a chance to forge a pro-Israel political alliance and frame the political future of Israel as an issue rooted in white evangelical identity.
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The omnipotent Dr. Manhattan — the sole superpowered being in this world — won the war in Vietnam, which is now the 51st state; the Cold War ended after the messianic villain Adrian Veidt detonated a psychic giant squid in Manhattan, killing millions but uniting the world against a fictitious alien threat.
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I was reminded of all this watching "Incitement," the fine new Israeli movie directed by Yaron Zilberman that takes a fresh look at the assassination, and particularly at the world of Messianic zealotry that produced and sustained and motivated Amir, a 25-year-old law student at Bar-Ilan University.
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"If you are the dealer/ I'm out of the game/If you are the healer/I'm broken and lame/If thine is the glory/Then mine must be the shame/You want it darker...I'm ready, my Lord..." As with Dylan, Cohen seemed to own a direct line to the prophetic and messianic.
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On the trail, he spoke in messianic, apocalyptic tones about a country on the edge of an abyss; behind the scenes, his team not only spread the false news about Carson but also mailed out "voting violation" notices that attempted to shame Iowans into heading to the caucuses (and voting for Cruz).
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While To Pimp a Butterfly was in large part a messianic yarn about artists' personal obligation in lifting up the neighborhoods that birth them, untitled feels like a collection of the macro observations that pulled Kendrick into the crisis of self-doubt that Butterfly cuts like "u" bear out in pained self-flagellation.
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Carla McKissic Smith stayed until one Sunday in March 2017, when a guest speaker, a messianic rabbi from New Jersey, spoke of the 2016 election from the pulpit, saying that it "threatened to seal the acceleration of America's apostasy," but that Mr. Trump's victory was the fulfillment of God's covenant with Israel.
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John Frum, a messianic figure, is sometimes portrayed as a black American sailor or sergeant ("John from America") whose symbol is a red cross like that on military medical tents and whose return will trigger an apocalypse, deliver vast piles of cargo, and make whites and Melanesians change places in the power hierarchy.
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The main fault of "Exodus" is that it gets stuck in several ruts, but its exposition of hip-hop style has many stylistic marvels, while Mr. Roberts, in its messianic central role, often creates a visionary drama with his skilled control of slow motion and his gentle-giant interactions with other characters.
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Since Jews were no longer waiting for the messiah, they themselves would become "a messianic people designated by God to guide the world to its eventual redemption," as Steven R. Weisman writes in his thorough new history of this era, THE CHOSEN WARS: How Judaism Became an American Religion (Simon & Schuster, $30).
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A messianic youth-culture figure whose online notoriety was driven in part by allegations of horrific abuse against a girlfriend, XXXTentacion muscled his way from the SoundCloud underground to the mainstream with a raw mixture of rap, rock and punk music, along with a near-constant stream of fan interaction on social media.
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Indeed, President Trump and his spokespeople, including Sarah Huckabee Sanders, have decided that it is best to defend Trump's previous attacks on the media, while Vice President Pence made the odd decision to appear at a campaign rally in Michigan on Monday with a Messianic Rabbi, who believes Jesus was the Messiah.
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"Politically, Correa faces growing frustration at this slew of new taxes, despite general acceptance of the emergency measures … Correa's messianic style of leadership may make him feel he is irreplaceable, especially post-earthquake, or he could yet decide to let someone else take the flak for the economic difficulties Ecuador is facing," Watson said.
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And unlike the Beyoncé who twirled in a ginormous champagne glass in the video "Naughty Girl," or Monae, who cloaked her most daring artistic statements about black womanhood behind the disguise of a messianic android she called Cindi Mayweather, these increasingly bold and innovative languages place the experiences of black women at their center.
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For those of us who have watched Mr. Zuma and his comrades drive the once great party of national liberation into the ground, something messianic does indeed seem to have arrived — in the guise of a feisty assertion of democracy that has begun to punish these people for their ineptitude, corruption and unspeakable arrogance.
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The utopian drive of these futuristic hallucinations is punctuated with a radical pessimism about our current condition, both social and political, so that the imagination of a distant future becomes a loud Messianic cry for salvation, in full awareness that none will come — the personages are only glancing into a speculative moment of possibility.
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In a historical stroke with resonance today, American Jewish leaders gathered in Pittsburgh in 1885 to produce what is known as the Pittsburgh Platform, a new theology for an American Judaism, less focused on a Messianic return to the land of Israel and more on fixing a broken world, the concept of Tikkun Olam.
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This is refreshing, and Morris traces in considerable detail the economic effects of the war, beginning with Europe's abandonment of the gold standard and, even worse, the attempts to return to it at all costs (France gets particular blame for its "semi-messianic drive … to force a gold-based deflation on the rest of Europe").
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Moreover, the United States' recognition of Jerusalem as part of Israel could embolden messianic Jewish extremists — some of whom are supported by Israeli government officials — who want to build a Jewish temple in the Noble Sanctuary mosque complex in the Old City of East Jerusalem, one of the most sensitive religious sites in the world.
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Unfortunately, that's a very hard argument to have – modern MMTers are messianic in their claims to have proved even conventional Keynesianism wrong, tend to be unclear about what exactly their differences with conventional views are, and also have a strong habit of dismissing out of hand any attempt to make sense of what they're saying.
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" Invoking an image of "800 million people all wearing the same clothes, in the same uniform" in Mao's China, Clovis argued that Obama "projects a messianic vision of himself and of his mission," which, according to Clovis, he viewed similarly to Mao's notion that "the people are a blank sheet upon which the richest words will be written.
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Though the election of 1948 is best remembered for the Chicago Tribune newspaper's embarrassing, incorrect "Dewey Defeats Truman" headline, its forgotten story is of Henry Wallace, a liberal dreamer who, though unlike Donald Trump in nearly every respect, shares Trump's fate of being too blinded by his self-messianic vision to realize he too had become a Kremlin pawn.
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Other A24 hits over the past few years include "Spring Breakers," about college girls who get mixed up with a messianic drug and arms dealer; the creepy-cool "Ex Machina," which introduced the future Oscar-winner Alicia Vikander to most viewers; "The Lobster," a dystopian cult favorite; and the Oscar-winning "Room" (Brie Larson for best actress).
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Blue and White is the latest in a series of parties — Kadima ("Forward"), Yair Lapid's Yesh Atid ("There is a future") and Isaac Herzog's Zionist Union — that have tried over the past decade to create a centrist alternative to Netanyahu, Likud and the prime minister's increasingly rabid crew of rightists, ranging from the religious Messianic to the racist nationalist.
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In that swollen moment as the bells rang and everyone watched to see what the Mother of Dragons, Breaker of Chains would do, I thought she would fly straight for Cersei, her understandable flaming rage at the woman who has legitimately wronged her in multiple ways leading to the sort of tragic unintended consequences that can result from messianic leaders following impulsive instincts.
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As recently as two years ago he still fit — almost too perfectly — the archetype of the young startup CEO on a messianic mission to blow up a once-sleepy corner of the tech industry with a laundry list of fresh ideas about how companies use their day-to-day information, new business strategies and a big dose of cloud computing know-how.
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Though Pence — who describes himself as "a Christian, a conservative, and a Republican, in that order" — did not organize the rally, he did share the stage with a man who leads a congregation that follows Messianic Judaism, a religious group that believes in the teachings of the New Testament, in particular, recognizes Jesus as the promised Messiah, which is the defining difference between Jews and Christians.
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I realize the idea here is a "back-to-the-basics" plot, where we see whether Daenerys can win over a kingdom on pure messianic charisma, but her lessons in statecraft were finally beginning to become interesting: In contrast to the scheming for power that typified every other storyline, the Meereen scenes showed us how actual day-to-day governance wore on somebody who already had it.
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Purveyors of pop culture conspiracy have suggested Fleetwood Mac was cursed from the beginning: three of the band's previous guitarists, the ghosts from the Mac's past, became unhinged while on tour, with founder Peter Green most famously taking tabs with a sketchy group of fans in Munich, experiencing an intensely messianic acid trip, and proceeding to dress up as Jesus before leaving the band for a religious cult.
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Woodrow Wilson, among others, was not so successful in creating a postwar peace because he forced conditions to preconceived realities that bore little resemblance to emerging ironies at Versailles — and was without a sellable idea of an American role after World War I. Gaddis concludes with an invaluable warning that true morality embraces neither messianic interventionism nor the quest for utopianism — indeed that is how millions become deluded, endangered or doomed.
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Nor how the Zionism he described in Basel as a "moral, humanitarian movement" would be prodded over time toward messianic nationalism by the violent, still unresolved confrontation with the Arabs of Palestine; nor how the Jewish exercise of power, rather than Jewish subjection to its cruel whim, would test the very ethics that bound Jews to their formless, faceless God during the millenniums of tribulation in the diaspora.
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But these qualities also render less conspicuous the defining trait of the show, which more than any other has contributed to Mueller's near-messianic hold over segments of the so-called Resistance—a movement that was caught by surprise when Mueller finally submitted his report in late March, apparently concluding, from what we know of the report as of this writing, that Trump and his aides had not conspired with Russia to steal the election.
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