(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.
Iconoclast
Definition:
(n.) A breaker or destroyer of images or idols; a determined enemy of idol worship.
(n.) One who exposes or destroys impositions or shams; one who attacks cherished beliefs; a radical.
Example Sentences:
(1) Banks, who made his money selling insurance and sees himself, like Nigel Farage, as an ex-public school iconoclast of the “liberal establishment”, is no longer just some rightwing outlier.
(2) In its infancy, the movement against censorship agitated on behalf of artists, iconoclasts, talented blasphemers; against repressive forces whose unpleasantness only confirmed which side was in the right.
(3) Described by Econsultancy as “erudite and iconoclastic”, he was recognised as tech entrepreneur of the year at the 2016 UK Business Awards.
(4) Though he strongly disapproved of much of what later took shape as "New Labour", which he saw, among other things, as historically cowardly, he was without question the single most influential intellectual forerunner of Labour's increasingly iconoclastic 1990s revisionism.
(5) On Friday in St Petersburg, Florida, the legendary pro-wrestler, whose real name is Terry Bollea, delivered a $115m legal hit on the iconoclastic web publisher, a victory that signals a significant change in the public’s tolerance for media invasions of privacy – and that could bankrupt the site.
(6) This autumn’s project should deliver sparks as Khan creates and performs a duet with flamenco iconoclast Galván, exploring their fascination with rhythm, gesture, pattern and myth.
(7) I am something of a parvenu, but we should welcome the iconoclastic and the unconventional.
(8) Acknowledging the contribution of sociology and social sciences to psychiatry, it is suggested that the heroic period of social psychiatry and the iconoclastic approach of sociology of mental health are over.
(9) On the surface, the grumpy pacifist iconoclast had little in common with the war hero author of Seven Pillars of Wisdom - apart from a weakness for inordinately long prefaces.
(10) In some ways no one represents this better than the iconoclastic Varoufakis, whose investiture should go down as a textbook case of what happens when radicals come into town.
(11) While Brand’s iconoclastic politics, urging people not to vote and to abandon conventional party politics, emerge naturally from his subversive comedy, the spirit of Izzard’s surreal improvisations are harder to find in his pursuit of a conventional political career.
(12) The recent case of The Jewel of Medina, a work by Sherry Jones which is neither bold nor iconoclastic, exemplifies the problem.
(13) In his 20s he was an iconoclastic aesthete, who learned Chinese with the great Swedish sinologist, Bernard Karlgren, in Stockholm, not out of political commitment to Mao's recent revolution, but out of love for a venerable culture of grace and simplicity which, he thought, represented the blissful antithesis of the consumerist west.
(14) This iconoclastic critique from the right did not change US policy but gained the keepers of Rand's flame respect and credibility, said Ghate, a Canadian of German and Indian parentage with a PhD in philosophy.
(15) Outraged Gehry's iconoclastic designs include the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao and Maggie's Centre, a cancer daycare centre, in Dundee.
(16) The impresario and iconoclast Malcolm McLaren , who has died aged 64 from the cancer mesothelioma, was one of the pivotal, yet most divisive influences on the styles and sounds of late 20th-century popular culture.
(17) His backers, it should be noted, include such bold iconoclasts as Tessa Jowell, Lord Falconer and Alastair Campbell.
(18) If Christopher was louche, hedonistic and iconoclastic, Hitchens would be fastidious, puritanical and Christian.
(19) But Brolin said that “he came on [set] as the kind of mercurial iconoclast he is.
(20) These iconoclasts would happily leave behind the burden of ancient stones and get on with the church’s real mission.