(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.
Messianic
Definition:
(a.) Of or relating to the Messiah; as, the Messianic office or character.
Example Sentences:
(1) When I was nine or 10 I leapt directly from Doctor Dolittle to Dr No, leaving behind all those stupid talking animals and free-falling into a far naughtier realm of suavely promiscuous government assassins, hot shell-diving beauties and villains with metal hands and messianic plans for humanity.
(2) For Trump, America will be great again when it is responsible to no one, when it can bend neighbors to its will through magic feats of negotiation, when its military abandons all remaining ethical standards, when it defers its problems to a messianic strongman.
(3) "Our role is not inheriting that messianic role," he said.
(4) It is a messianism he combines with the tousled good looks of an ageing matinée idol and an undeniable charisma that at TED in Oxford four years ago had some members of the audience spellbound.
(5) That toxic blend of messianic warmongering abroad and McCarthyite witch-hunting at home – which gave us Iraq, Afghanistan, Guantánamo and the London bombings – is coursing through our public life again.
(6) Photograph: Sarah Lee for the Guardian Jones, a tall, bounding figure with a hairstyle and beard verging on the messianic, says the idea emerged from his comedy, where he encouraged those coming to his gigs to get to know one another, and they in turn pressed him for ways to stay in touch and even build small groups.
(7) They are opportunists, a hidden hand.” He warned France against “following the United States in ideological messianism” and of “hatred against hatred, war against war”, urging “a political vision, political strategies”.
(8) Pacquiao’s quasi-messianic desire to combat the poverty that spat him out from General Santos City years ago – a compulsion that's led him all the way to a congressional seat in the Philippines – had left his competitive drive subject to intense scrutiny.
(9) When I spoke to Farage he described Tony Blair’s messianic foreign policy as a post-imperial hang-up.
(10) Is he supposed to be floating, messianically, over the waves?
(11) Morsi's assessment of the region's problems came in stark contrast to the address delivered by the Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad , who focused on religious themes, particular his messianic form of Shia Islam, and did not mention the Iranian nuclear programme, which is the focus of rising tension in the region – and in the wider international community.
(12) Some spoke of the disaster in the language of messianism, the idea that God sanctioned Poland’s suffering for a holy purpose.
(13) Markram's belief in the ability of computing technology to solve the big questions of neuroscience is messianic.
(14) The party of separation is a lean, ferociously disciplined and committed force with a leader who is treated with almost messianic reverence.
(15) And he drifted into messianic territory when he predicted it might mark “the beginning of peace in the Middle East and maybe all over the world”.
(16) Buhari, a tough-talking ex-general with a reputation for incorruptibility, was viewed by many Nigerians as an almost messianic figure who would rescue the country from its kleptocratic ruling elite and crush Boko Haram , the homegrown jihadi group responsible for thousands of deaths in recent years.
(17) Yet every now and then (his almost messianic half-time performance at the 2007 Super Bowl; that month of gigs at the O2 in London), Prince would remind us of his unwaning musical power and why it was necessary and right to prostrate yourself once a month in front of a silent, mocking fax machine.
(18) In January Israel's defence minister, Moshe Ya'alon, described Kerry as "obsessive and messianic".
(19) Also significant is Prokhorov's emphasis on universal European values and his criticism of Russia's new messianism, the idea the country has "its own 'special' fate, separate and distinct from everyone else".
(20) Hamas, however, is not a messianic jihadist movement but a local organisation with a pragmatic political leadership and limited aims.