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: a professed or accepted leader of some hope or cause
security, which the political messiahs promise—
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They thought the new principal was the messiah the school had been hoping for.
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His 1984 Dune adapts Frank Herbert’s book about a messiah from another world whose family is decimated and who is thought lost and dead but is reborn as the leader of a guerilla insurgency on a desert planet after ingesting spice that activates mind-expanding, reality-flouting superpowers.
—Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 16 Jan. 2025
In Jerusalem, for example, who even bothers to look up when a prophet in the throes boards the light rail at the Mount Herzl military cemetery, or when a messiah in white robes astride a white donkey trots down Jaffa Road past the municipal center blowing his horn?
—Tova Reich, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2024
All to transform a once fringe-politician who got by through controversial statements and military sympathy into a manipulative messiah for those in the far-right.
—Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 1 Jan. 2025
Stealing the show is German actor Nina Hoss as the CEO of the company, leering over Zoom work meetings like a god phoning in from Mount Olympus, coolly detached and formidably out of touch as a corporate messiah.
—Nicholas Bell, SPIN, 25 Dec. 2024
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Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 16 Jan. 2025
In Jerusalem, for example, who even bothers to look up when a prophet in the throes boards the light rail at the Mount Herzl military cemetery, or when a messiah in white robes astride a white donkey trots down Jaffa Road past the municipal center blowing his horn?
—Tova Reich, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2024
All to transform a once fringe-politician who got by through controversial statements and military sympathy into a manipulative messiah for those in the far-right.
—Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 1 Jan. 2025
Stealing the show is German actor Nina Hoss as the CEO of the company, leering over Zoom work meetings like a god phoning in from Mount Olympus, coolly detached and formidably out of touch as a corporate messiah.
—Nicholas Bell, SPIN, 25 Dec. 2024
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“Messiah.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/messiah. Accessed 23 Jan. 2025.
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