Atop North Korea s starvation economy sits a personality cult that dwarfs those of Stalin or Mao.

Myths about his wartime heroism and divine status soon followed, and a cult of personality was established.

For 15 years, Turkmenistan was held hostage to the personality cult of former leader Saparmurat Niyazov, who styled himself Turkmenbashi ( father of the Turkmen ).

To be sure, Khrushchev s uncovering of Stalin s crimes and cult of personality in 1956 made a huge impression both in the Soviet Union and abroad.

The survivors of all the previous political movements, now enthralled by Mao s personality cult, were free of all constraint, able to kill and seek revenge with impunity.

The Nobel Cult

My great grandfather denounced Stalin s cult of personality, only to be worshipped for example, in the over the top documentary Our Nikita Sergeevich (1961) for his super vision of how to diminish imperialism and catch up with West.

Yet, within days, the word Stalinism was being expunged from a new Soviet dictionary, and three years later my grandfather, Nikita Khrushchev, denounced Stalin s cult of personality in his famous Secret Speech to the Communist Party s XXth Congress.

One example of personality types is Type A and Type B personality theory.

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While visiting North Korea in 1979, journalist Bradley Martin noted that nearly all music, art, and sculpture that he observed glorified Great Leader Kim Il sung, whose personality cult was then being extended to his son, Dear Leader Kim Jong il.

Personality psychology is a branch of psychology that studies personality and its variation among individuals.

One is personality.

Indeed, paranoia about US imperialism is part of the cult of independence.

Or the cult of living forever, If only we'd watch our weight.

She has a wonderful personality.

The right to free development of the personality.

The cult of the Prize began even before the first winners were announced.

It is a requirement of the ICD 10 that a diagnosis of any specific personality disorder also satisfies a set of general personality disorder criteria.

Each cat has its own personality.

The Organization shall have legal personality.

But barbecue's interesting, because it's one of these cult foods like chili, or bouillabaisse.

This theory of personality factors and the instrument used to measure them are known respectively as the 16 personality factor model and the 16PF Questionnaire.

Even if the suicide bomber does get 72 virgins in the afterlife, in this life, his personality his rather unfortunate personality is the product of his brain.

And so that's what they did. This cult of doing things right is starting to spread.

The Dionysian personality takes the picture and goes ...

Thus every news becomes information about the personality of the sender.

During 1964 the Lei Feng campaign shifted gradually from doing good deeds to a cult of Mao.

There are a lot of things you don't know about my personality.

The International Olive Council shall have international legal personality.

In short, Israel s current leadership has inflated security into a surreal new cult, trumping morality.

The author then requested the General Prosecutor, the deputy Prime Minister, and the Chairman of the Committee of Religious Affairs, to clarify the limits of the terms of cult (religious) dress, and was informed by the Committee that Islam does not prescribe a specific cult dress.

The confident side of the Chinese leadership s split personality is easy to understand.

I said, I don't know anything about personality. You know?

Aside from these personality factors, there is the regional context.

Ahmadinejad s election in 2005 was a throwback to the populism of Khomeini s Islamic Revolution and his cult of revolutionary martyrs.

But, in the often nuanced language of central bankers, Tarullo conveyed a clear message the cult of size has failed.

The cathedral of Turku was the center of the cult of Saint Henry, and naturally the cultural center of the bishopric.

Indeed, one can relate popular hostility toward nuclear energy to Germany s traditional romantic cult of nature, not to science.

Anyone can take Pleo and they can totally redo his personality.

This little cross takes spiritual gifts, heart, ability, personality and experiences.

The widespread popularity of deliberate misspelling is similar to the cult following of the All your base are belong to us phrase.

Traits have come to be seen as consistent patterns of personality rather than inherited characteristics.

The intent is to display the likeness, personality, and even the mood of the person.

Expectations of King James started high but then declined, so by the 1620s there was a nostalgic revival of the cult of Elizabeth.