(n.) A Hebrew exclamation of praise to the Lord, or an invocation of blessings.
Example Sentences:
(1) Michael Cohen : 'Even a passable performance was going to earn Romney hosannas' michael cohen Photograph: Guardian Wednesday's debate between Mitt Romney and Barack Obama can be summed up by one moment.
(2) Reporters are desperate for the race to tighten and with expectations for Romney as low as can be imagined, even a passable performance was going to earn him hosannas.
(3) Shepherds and wise men gather round to adore the strikingly handsome newborn JULIAN ASSANGE while angels sing hosannas," and got ever more appreciative from there.
(4) You sense that, on some level, he's been frantically back-pedalling ever since, though the stream of critical hosannas and $386m worldwide box office for what was the 11th Star Trek feature film deflected a large chunk of the scorn.
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.