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Its collection includes such items as his Moloch floor lamp — an ordinary swing-arm desk lamp blown up to gargantuan proportions.
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Fred A. Bernstein, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2024
Many regard the unbridled marketplace as a child-devouring Moloch, evoked in their imaginations by The Hunger Games, Divergent, or Squid Game.
—Neil Howe, Fortune, 18 July 2023
Having a helluva lot of fun are Lucifer (superlatively portrayed by the swaggering Superlative Jones), his two horned and hoofed minions Moloch (Greene) and Satan (Timothy Paul Evans), and Seven Deadly Sins, all of them represented in one tempestuous package by Melissa Hamilton.
—David L. Coddoncontributor, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Dec. 2022
Elvis might have been anointed the King, the monarch of proto-pop, but Jerry Lee was Moloch, the pagan deity of the Middle East whose worship involved the sacrifice of children.
—Richard Corliss, Time, 28 Oct. 2022
But his religious fanaticism together with the invocations of Moloch suggest some kind of divine intervention is at work.
—John Anderson, WSJ, 8 June 2021
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Fred A. Bernstein, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2024
Many regard the unbridled marketplace as a child-devouring Moloch, evoked in their imaginations by The Hunger Games, Divergent, or Squid Game.
—Neil Howe, Fortune, 18 July 2023
Having a helluva lot of fun are Lucifer (superlatively portrayed by the swaggering Superlative Jones), his two horned and hoofed minions Moloch (Greene) and Satan (Timothy Paul Evans), and Seven Deadly Sins, all of them represented in one tempestuous package by Melissa Hamilton.
—David L. Coddoncontributor, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Dec. 2022
Elvis might have been anointed the King, the monarch of proto-pop, but Jerry Lee was Moloch, the pagan deity of the Middle East whose worship involved the sacrifice of children.
—Richard Corliss, Time, 28 Oct. 2022
But his religious fanaticism together with the invocations of Moloch suggest some kind of divine intervention is at work.
—John Anderson, WSJ, 8 June 2021
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“Moloch.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Moloch. Accessed 19 Dec. 2024.
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