How to Use cult of personality in a Sentence
cult of personality
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At its core, the story of Vice is one of money, greed and the cult of personality.
—Lachlan Cartwright, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Feb. 2024
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They are united not by ideology so much as by a refusal to go along with the cult of personality that has overtaken the rest of their colleagues.
—Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 9 Feb. 2024
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No one lords over a cult of personality right now, actively or passively, quite like Joni Mitchell.
—Chris Willman, Variety, 14 June 2023
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The Kremlin is carrying out public events featuring the Russian leader that seem designed to build a cult of personality around him.
—Robyn Dixon, Washington Post, 19 Dec. 2023
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It’s crushed under a cult of personality so punitive that citizens can be imprisoned if inspectors find any dust on the household portrait of supreme leader Kim Jong Un.
—Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 1 Nov. 2023
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Haines’s illustrations didn’t speak to the cult of personality, or consumerism so much as capture a mood and document how chicness is distilled through posture, gesture, and the thoughtful way colors and shapes are combined.
—Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 20 Sep. 2023
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Despite—or perhaps because of—the massive toll of human suffering, the campaign played a crucial role in establishing Mao’s cult of personality.
—Maya Wang, Foreign Affairs, 24 Nov. 2021
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This is, relatedly, what has empowered Donald Trump, a strongman who has been able to transform a party without a vision into a cult of personality using some simple carrots (nice tweets) and sticks (mean tweets).
—Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 20 Oct. 2023
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Based on a screenplay by Antonín Máša, the film took a new approach to exploring the moral crisis felt by the generation that experienced the social changes following the condemnation of Stalin’s cult of personality.
—Leo Barraclough, Variety, 25 Apr. 2023
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The Kremlin’s tight media control, its wall-to-wall pro-war propaganda and its cult of personality around Putin has eliminated any electoral uncertainties.
—Robyn Dixon, Washington Post, 14 Nov. 2023
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Trump’s cult of personality has been replaced with a new political philosophy branded like his buildings and resorts.
—Mark Niquette, Bloomberg.com, 8 June 2022
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That will be when the edit staffers finally realize to their dismay that the Republican Party of their dreams—a party devoted to small government and tax-cutting rather than election denying and an authoritarian cult of personality—no longer exists.
—Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 4 Sep. 2023
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Mao also expanded the militia system to suppress and intimidate people who opposed his radical policies, while developing a cult of personality within and outside the party.
—Laura He, CNN, 20 Feb. 2024
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Now, André’s flirtations with jazz music are taking myself and others beyond his cult of personality and into a deeper appreciation for instrumentation.
—Ken Makin, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Apr. 2024
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