(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.
Eschatology
Definition:
(n.) The doctrine of the last or final things, as death, judgment, and the events therewith connected.
Example Sentences:
(1) To commit suicide is to stop out of one's own history and eschatology, an act devoid of freedom.
(2) Very soon, speculation suggests that there will be further democratisation, with a promised next phase in this digitally eschatological view of history: the Apple tablet computer or iSlate.
(3) If life is vocational it has an inborn eschatology.