(n.) The Anointed; an appellation given to Jesus, the Savior. It is synonymous with the Hebrew Messiah.
Example Sentences:
(1) Roberts can't really explain why Wu Lyf's lyrics are full of neo-biblical imagery – all blood and fire and crowns – nor why one of their main insignia is a cross, but he does admit that he got suspended from secondary school for putting a picture of Ho Chi Minh's face on Christ's body.
(2) Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina were arrested on the eve of Russia's presidential vote last weekend, days after an impromptu performance of an anti-Putin song in Moscow's Cathedral of Christ the Saviour.
(3) Meanwhile he is preparing a new double piano concerto by Kevin Volans with the Labèque sisters for a concert at the Edinburgh festival next week, and he tells me with a glint in his eye about ideas for the next two seasons: concert performances of Don Giovanni this October, more Brahms symphonies, and more Berlioz – an ambitious plan to realise the gigantic drama of Roméo and Juliette on a chamber-orchestral scale, following up his rapturously received performances of L'Enfance du Christ in February.
(4) His dynamic vision for making Christ visible in mission and ministry, as well as serving the poor, would have been a great asset to us all."
(5) The curator Clare Browne has a certain sympathy for Bock – “he was a serious collector, and he saved many pieces which would otherwise certainly have been destroyed” – but even she is startled that he ran his scissors straight through the figure of Christ, sparing only the face, which ended up in the V&A’s half.
(6) Yet some members of the church who profess desire to adhere most strictly to the teachings of Christ are the most vehement objectors to behavior that most resembles what his might have been.
(7) Since the allegations became public, fans have taken to holding up homemade signs at Florida State games: "We Support Famous Jameis", "Jameis is Innocent," and "In Jameis Christ We Pray".
(8) I think the fact that the movement has now become so public and widely supported gives it a resilience that means we can do this and it will make it very hard for border force and the government to make a move on these people.” There were also training demonstrations given at churches in Sydney, Hobart, Perth, Canberra and Adelaide, while Christ Church cathedral in Darwin will hold a demonstration later this afternoon.
(9) The truth of the redemption of all things in Christ, which is the message of the life-giving cross, must be reclaimed (Colossians 1:20; John 3:16).
(10) Even now when he arrives at the door, I think, 'Christ, where are the valuables?'"
(11) The trio were arrested after a brief performance in Moscow's Cathedral of Christ the Saviour of a song calling for the Virgin Mary to "chase Putin out".
(12) In 1500, though, he unveiled two paintings in the Contarelli chapel in the church of San Luigi dei Francesi in Rome – the French church – showing Christ calling St Matthew and his martyrdom.
(13) I believe there are infinite paths to accepting Jesus Christ as your personal saviour.
(14) Our food banks' primary goal is not party political, but grounded in the church's response to the love of Christ – to meet needs in the short term by alleviating hunger, and by recognising all who come in need of food as people made in God's image.
(15) I turned to Hillcoat, happier than I'd ever seen him in the economy seat beside me: "Jesus Christ, John, how much did we drink?
(16) They are no more perfect a family than any family, but their Christian witness is not marred in our eyes because following Christ is not a declaration of our perfection, but of HIS perfection.
(17) And Jesus Christ, we don’t know about him – it seems as if he may have just been a Jewish radical, so if I had to pick one… heheheheh!” He cackles like a crazy.
(18) Profile in the Guardian, January 2007 On winning the Nobel : "Oh Christ!
(19) She had a robust attitude when I grilled her on Lonely Planet's advice against walking up Corcovado to the Christ the Redeemer statue.
(20) In Herbert Ross's Goodbye Mr Chips (1969), based on the Terence Rattigan stage play, he won hearts as well as minds with a tender performance as the shy schoolmaster who falls in love with Petula Clark, and in 1972 he gave an extraordinary turn in a cult movie rarely revived now, Peter Medak's The Ruling Class, in which he played a young man who succeeds to an earldom after the ageing incumbent dies in an auto-erotic strangling incident, and reveals that he believes himself to be Jesus Christ.
Messiah
Definition:
(n.) The expected king and deliverer of the Hebrews; the Savior; Christ.
Example Sentences:
(1) A series of misadventures and misunderstandings lead him to Calgary, where the whole Messiah mix-up reaches its painful, and tuneful, climax.
(2) Brand isn’t the messiah (or just a naughty boy, for that matter) and his message pisses off plenty of people.
(3) Moon saw himself as a messiah and created a church that became a worldwide movement and claims to have around 3 million members, including 100,000 in the United States.
(4) A drifter, he meandered from city to city, in and out of prison, before arriving in Paradise, where he founded the first branch of the Allah Temple Of Islam in 1930 and set himself up as a black Messiah.
(5) Her Sophie Brzeska in Ken Russell's Savage Messiah was violently earthy, sexual: all the things a Meissen porcelain figure shouldn't be able to be."
(6) The 52-year-old has frequently claimed to be the messiah, raising questions about the his state of mind.
(7) At the 1996 Brit Awards he was accompanied on stage by a children's choir, prompting a stage invasion by Jarvis Cocker of Pulp, who claimed his attitude was "Messiah-like".
(8) And, like all peasant messiahs, Mao promised a society in which all men would be equal.
(9) There is no Julian Assange -like messiah complex for cod-psychologists to dissect, and money doesn't appear to matter much to him.
(10) At best, these corporate-dominated panels are mostly useless: preening sessions in which chief executives exercise messiah complexes.
(11) But is Mas really a messiah leading Catalonia to the promised land of independence?
(12) Following the Japanese surrender after the second world war, Moon lived in Seoul and attended a Christian church where the pastor preached that Korea was the new Israel and would produce a messiah, a message Moon soon exploited.
(13) It must have been there at one point, as the messiah wasn't actually called Chris.
(14) He is shot dead by police 1944 Nyasaland African Congress set up 1958 Dr Hastings Kamuzu Banda, 'the black messiah', returns from studying in the US and UK to lead the Nyasaland African Congress (NAC) 1959 NAC banned and Banda arrested 1960-1 Banda freed from prison and holds talks with UK on constitutional reform.
(15) And, if one is not at the zenith of adulation of the Pacific islanders who believe the Prince to be the penis-gourd-sporting Melanesian Messiah, then, at the very least, the example of Britain's longest-serving monarchal consort is deserving of our – and, more specifically, the Duchess of Cambridge's – interest.
(16) The protesters, including a choir singing the Hallelujah chorus from Handel's Messiah, rejoiced at his departure.
(17) After 2,000 years, the Messiah is getting a makeover.
(18) I don’t think there’s a light for the Palestinians at the end of the tunnel, except if the tunnel leads to Stockholm or Berlin.” He said that the Palestinians now needed a saviour or messiah, one who could save them from being deprived of even the basic necessity of existence.
(19) Then Gerrard has a shot from 25 yards but he isn't ripe for the messiah pose just yet.
(20) The village's pioneering, uncranky practicality (begin with energy-saving lightbulbs and keep going) has become an inspiration, its leaders the messiahs of carbon footprint reduction.