How to Use personality cult in a Sentence

personality cult

noun

• Efforts to foster what some observers describe as a personality cult around Xi can be traced to his early days in power.
  — Time, 16 June 2023
• The narrative of India as the new economic miracle is foundational to both the personality cult of Modi and the legitimacy of his government at home and abroad.
  — Debasish Roy Chowdhury, TIME, 24 Apr. 2024
• In a political party that has evolved into a personality cult, her apostasy resides in her refusal to worship its leader and in her defense of the Constitution.
  — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 10 Dec. 2023
• One party has turned into a personality cult around a criminal candidate.
  — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 13 Aug. 2024
• Nasser ordered one of the most extensive political crackdowns in Egypt’s history and nurtured a personality cult that would remain until his death 16 years later.
  — Shadi Hamid, Washington Post, 16 July 2024
• The personality cult that encircles Tommy feels more sinister than in the original production.
  — Julia Jacobs, New York Times, 12 July 2023
• Netanyahu’s Likud Party, which has dominated Israeli politics since 1977, turned into a personality cult around its leader.
  — Aluf Benn, Foreign Affairs, 3 Jan. 2023
• The lack of serious crypto policy proposals from GOP presidential candidates is not surprising—after all, much of the party has come to resemble a personality cult devoted to little more than lib-baiting.
  — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune Crypto, 26 July 2023
• None ever turned his political party into a personality cult.
  — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 13 Jan. 2024
• Surviving multiple early attempts on their lives can boost a political leader’s personality cult and claims of invincibility.
  — Ruth Ben-Ghiat, The Conversation, 25 July 2024
• Modi's critics claim he's changed India in toxic ways from cracking down on media dissent to fostering a political personality cult, from actively causing divisions in India's disparate communities to outright social media censorship.
  — Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY, 21 June 2023

Last Updated: 12 Feb 2025