What's the difference between messiah and monster?

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.

Monster


Definition:

  • (n.) Something of unnatural size, shape, or quality; a prodigy; an enormity; a marvel.
  • (n.) Specifically , an animal or plant departing greatly from the usual type, as by having too many limbs.
  • (n.) Any thing or person of unnatural or excessive ugliness, deformity, wickedness, or cruelty.
  • (a.) Monstrous in size.
  • (v. t.) To make monstrous.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Rather than an off-plan Oxshott monster-mansion, he moved his family to an elegant Eaton Terrace townhouse in south-west London.
  • (2) I read somewhere that one of the actresses you admire is Charlize Theron and she's another great beauty who started out modelling but whose breakthrough role came when she uglied up [to play serial killer Aileen Wuornos in Monster ].
  • (3) It’s the first time the digital monsters have made it on to smartphones – so what do you make of this new venture?
  • (4) We report here that two other members of this peptide family, rat growth hormone-releasing factor and helodermin H38, a component of Gila monster venom, also increase the rate of dopa synthesis, while glucagon-like peptides I and II and a number of other peptides tested produce no effect.
  • (5) One of the other studies, not written by Preece, used the word "monster" in its title, unusual language for a scientific report.
  • (6) Perhaps monstering earns underdog sympathy, with contempt for the press as rife as contempt for conventional politics.
  • (7) While Mind Candy tries to crack it, Smith said it remains committed to the web-based virtual world that started off the Moshi Monsters phenomenon – "the beating heart of the property" – despite changing habits of children.
  • (8) He warned that the US federal reserve would need to pull the lever on "monster" quantitative easing [QE]".
  • (9) I certainly wouldn't have been able to tell you the difference between palaeontologists searching for ancient bones, and the search for the Loch Ness Monster.
  • (10) The £150m black hole over iPlayer and playback-watching is a monster problem at the very time it’s being solved as George and Tony trade.
  • (11) Like Dr Frankenstein increasing the dose until the monster comes to life.
  • (12) The multiple manifestations of systemic lupus erythematosus recall the ancient Greek monster the Hydra.
  • (13) Cotto is probably at the head of the queue but there are other intriguing options, including the monster of the division, the unbeaten Gennady Golovkin, and Chris Eubank Jr, who looked good stopping the former Saunders victim, Gary “Spike” O’Sullivan in London on 12 December – or even a rematch with Lee.
  • (14) The game also makes a lot of mileage out of building up razor-sharp tension, reducing the soundtrack to footfalls and creaking doors and then having horrific monsters amble into view as though this is the natural state of things.
  • (15) Five increasingly anionic variants (Pa1-Pa5) of Ca2+-dependent phospholipase A2 were purified to homogeneity from the venom of the lizard Heloderma suspectum (Gila monster).
  • (16) The attribution of sympathy became the creative battle in the making of Monster.
  • (17) The latter is somewhat under the radar for the wider games industry, but Despicable Me: Minion Rush (to give its full title) is something of a mobile monster: 100m downloads in three months on iOS and Android earlier this year.
  • (18) Following his role in Gods and Monsters, McKellen went on to shoot what would prove his most popular role, as Gandalf in the Oscar-winning Lord of the Rings trilogy .
  • (19) The club’s new president, Bruno de Carvalho, has denounced as a “menace” and “monster” the funds to whom majority stakes in almost the club’s entire squad were sold before he was elected in March 2013 and he vowed to end the practice.
  • (20) Indeed, continually depicting Muslims as the supreme evil - even when compared to the west's worst monsters - is par for Harris' course, as when he inveighed : Unless liberals realize that there are tens of millions of people in the Muslim world who are far scarier than Dick Cheney, they will be unable to protect civilization from its genuine enemies."