(n.) A denier or opponent of Christ. Specif.: A great antagonist, person or power, expected to precede Christ's second coming.
Example Sentences:
(1) For decades, "Tricky Dicky" was the supreme hate figure for the American left, the incarnation of the antichrist for Democrats.
(2) This was a period of immense academic daring (and, thought some, of over-reaching) as Hill scythed through received tradition in his study of AntiChrist In 17th-century England (1971) and his controversial study of Milton And The English Revolution (1977), which, like many of his later works, was written at the plain but lovely house in Périgord which Bridget badgered him into buying in 1969.
(3) He sent Björk to the gallows in Dancer in the Dark , arranged a gang-rape for Nicole Kidman's heroine in Dogville , and had Gainsbourg's character take a pair of scissors to her genitals in 2009's Antichrist .
(4) And so a sombre, psychological film such as Lars von Trier's Antichrist prompts a Daily Mail hate campaign ("its maker almost certainly needs psychiatric help") with just two on-screen killings, while Return Of The King scores a 12A certificate with each one of its 836 fatalities intact.
(5) Ingmar Bergman described him as “the greatest”, and Danish director Lars Von Trier dedicated his film Antichrist to him, saying in a recent interview: “It’s the closest I’ve got to a religion – to me he is God.” But Tarkovsky had endless problems with the Soviet authorities over funding, distribution and censorship.
(6) A popular conservative pundit recorded a series of commentaries for state-owned Channel 1, portraying LGBT people as the antichrist.
(7) Facebook Twitter Pinterest In short He's been called the Antichrist of ballet, which seems a bit heavy.
(8) The latest edition in the Left Behind series, a modern-day rendition of the Book of Revelation in which the antichrist is the head of the United Nations, was in reprint before it had even launched.
(9) Or really an unhappy medium,” Koppelman said, “where, by voicing support for Hillary Clinton, you’re at once alienating college Republicans – who still view her basically as the antichrist – and you’re alienating Bernie supporters who view her as this remnant of a time when Washington was extremely corrupt.” Koppelman, who grew up in New York City, has spent his time at Harvard engaging in leftwing activism.
(10) This then is the first true story of the Antichrist.
(11) And Left Behind is thrilling enough – millions of people just disappear and there are big explosions, new factions rising to replace those who have gone off to heaven, rumblings of war and the rising of a charismatic antichrist.
(12) In an article for Guardian Review before the publication of his new book, The Kraus Project, he writes: "In my own little corner of the world, which is to say American fiction, Jeff Bezos of Amazon may not be the antichrist, but he surely looks like one of the four horsemen.
(13) But for the former, this priestly grace comes at the direct expense of their worldly interests.” Trump Isn’t the Antichrist, but He Is Anti-Christ Publication: Christian Post Author: Eric Sapp is an evangelical Christian political consultant.
(14) But I was quite appalled by the extent to which that was taken and elaborated - to the point where I seemed to be like an antichrist.
(15) Prior to this year's Cannes film festival, critics were wondering just how the Danish director Lars von Trier could possibly top his previous appearance, back in 2009, when he rolled into town with his outrageous gynophobic horror movie Antichrist, projected a bloody clitoridectomy 10-feet high on the screens of the Palais and found himself booed and whistled for his trouble.
(16) There are plenty of references to climate change and but none to the coming of the antichrist.
(17) Gainsbourg, a two-time César-winner who has appeared in Von Trier’s films Antichrist, Melancholia and Nymphomaniac, will play an unspecified role in the belated follow-up.
(18) In its valiant attempt to link the Biblical rapture, a global currency meltdown, the rise of the Antichrist (through the UN, naturally) and war in the Middle East, using an abandoned quarry in Ontario (“whoever this Antichrist guy is, he’s going to have a huge war on his hands”), the film is propelled by the same mad belief as Ed Wood’s doomsdays-on-the-cheap.
Devil
Definition:
(n.) The Evil One; Satan, represented as the tempter and spiritual of mankind.
(n.) An evil spirit; a demon.
(n.) A very wicked person; hence, any great evil.
(n.) An expletive of surprise, vexation, or emphasis, or, ironically, of negation.
(n.) A dish, as a bone with the meat, broiled and excessively peppered; a grill with Cayenne pepper.
(n.) A machine for tearing or cutting rags, cotton, etc.
(v. t.) To make like a devil; to invest with the character of a devil.
(v. t.) To grill with Cayenne pepper; to season highly in cooking, as with pepper.
Example Sentences:
(1) From Africa, the archbishop of Kenya warned "the devil has entered the church", while a few days before the ceremony Robinson received a postcard from England, depicting the high altar of Durham cathedral and bearing the message: "You fornicating, lecherous pig."
(2) Those with no idea of what he looks like might struggle to identify this modest figure as one of the world's most exalted film-makers, or the red devil loathed by rightwing pundits from Michael Gove down.
(3) So, in The Devil Wears Prada , the ferocious magazine chief played by Meryl Streep is beset by secret misery: unfaithful husband, tricky kids, wig issues.
(4) The experience of having had intercourse with the devil has in the past been regarded as evidence that the individual is a witch.
(5) Photograph: Alamy The Devils Postpile, near Mammoth Lakes on the east side of Yosemite, looks as if it might have been created by some satanic sculptor, but really it's just one of the world's best examples of columnar basalt, a similar geological feature to the Giants Causeway in Northern Ireland.
(6) "The devil is in the detail and if the conditions are too much it could be very challenging to run it as a commercial operation," said one source.
(7) I do want to rule the world.” Bowie was also getting unhealthily interested in the occult; in her memoir, his then wife Angie Bowie describes how he was convinced that the indoor pool in their house in Doheny Drive was possessed by the devil , which led to the pair of them attempting an exorcism.
(8) Camille O'Sullivan In 2007, the sinister, humorous gem Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea spread like wildfire just after its opening, and you had to kill to get a ticket.
(9) Taking out such a deal was, in their view, tantamount to getting into bed with the devil – and certainly out of the question for a prudent financial journalist.
(10) Mitt Romney praises Trump after 'deal with the devil' dinner Read more “It’s not about revenge, it’s about what’s good for the country, and I’m able to put this stuff behind us,” Trump said in a television interview on NBC’s Today show on Friday.
(11) An entire generation has come to embrace the deflationary devil they know.
(12) Instead, Schieffer repeatedly pushed even Hayden to go further in his defense of the NSA and in his attacks on Snowden than Hayden wanted to, asking such tough "questions" like this one, about Obama's proposal to have a "devils' advocate in the FISA court: "BOB SCHIEFFER: Well-- well let me just cite an example and let's say that the NSA runs across something that they think an attack on the country is imminent-- "GENERAL MICHAEL HAYDEN: Right.
(13) Some tours take tourists to mask shops; we should be taking them to the mask makers, so that they get paid for their work directly.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest A fearsome devil mask Photograph: Alamy The current government, which replaced Rajapaksa’s administration two years ago, has made a commitment to sustainable tourism.
(14) Meanwhile, a number of writers have publicly come out against the second deal – including Ursula Le Guin, who resigned from the Authors Guild amid accusations that it was making a "deal with the devil" and selling its members "down the river" .
(15) The official code of conduct for special advisers adopts legalistic terms to describe their key role as "devilling", or squirrelling away at all government policy and communications to ensure it toes the appropriate political line.
(16) Once Leveson has published, the debate will finally be at this level of detail because that is where the devil is.
(17) In addition, Tyson had told the Mail on Sunday : “There are only three things that need to be accomplished before the Devil comes home.
(18) Debbie Abrahams, shadow work and pensions secretary, said: “As ever with this government though, the devil is in the detail.
(19) The "Death Angels" believed they had a better chance of getting to heaven if they killed some of these "grafted snakes" and "blue-eyed devils".
(20) On a trip to the Near East, Dadd became deluded that the Egyptian god Osiris was directing him to eliminate the devil's influence.