The Nobel Cult

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Within this new geopolitical framework, green ideology will survive like a cult or a recipe for economic suicide.

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

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.

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.

They had said We will not abandon this cult , but we will devote ourselves to it until Moses returns to us .

They had said We will not abandon this cult , but we will devote ourselves to it until Moses returns to us .

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

JA Well, my parents were in the movie business and then on the run from a cult, so the combination between the two ...

From a rational perspective, this idolizing of Diana is as absurd as any cult. Granted, she used her prominence to promote worthwhile causes.

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

Football magnifies the cult of the individual and the glorification of the hero, but it is also a celebration of the cooperative team spirit.

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

The Cult of Reason () was a religion based on deism devised during the French Revolution by Jacques Hébert, Pierre Gaspard Chaumette and their supporters.

As to these folk , the cult they are in is ( but ) a fragment of a ruin , and vain is the ( worship ) which they practise .

As to these folk , the cult they are in is ( but ) a fragment of a ruin , and vain is the ( worship ) which they practise .

This is true of our era where the oppression of women and the cult of thinness are linked to the objectification of all living bodies.

I encountered the cult of Diana in 2004, when I was in Hyde Park on the day the Queen opened the Princess Diana Memorial Fountain.

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.

One might say that its clumsy protagonist achieved cult status, maintained today thanks to the short cartoons' presence on YouTube and other video sharing platforms.

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.

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In his 1908 essay Der moderne Denkmalkultus (The modern cult of monuments) he describes historical value, artistic value, age value, commemorative value, use value, and newness value.

Indeed, he developed a cult for Marshall Ion Antonescu, Romania's dictator between 1940 1944 and Hitler's ally, who was responsible of ordering the massacre of about 200,000 Jews.

Numerous media reports as well as investigations by European governments suggest that Tvind's alleged controlling body, the Teachers Group, is a political cult involved in financial criminal activities.

For if they should come upon you , they would stone you or force you to return to their cult , and in that case ye would never attain prosperity .

For if they should come upon you , they would stone you or force you to return to their cult , and in that case ye would never attain prosperity .

But the power of the Kim cult, as well as the paranoia that pervades the North Korean regime, has a political history that goes back much further than 1945.

He points to extensive parental care during sickness, and to grief at death, sacrifices by parents to maximize child welfare, and a wide cult of childhood in religious practice.

The presence of Greeks on the Italian peninsula from the beginning of the historical period influenced Roman culture, introducing some religious practices that became as fundamental as the cult of Apollo.

Think, for example of Timothy McVeigh, who bombed the federal building in Oklahoma City in 1995, or the Aum Shinrykio cult that released poison gas in the Tokyo subway system the same year.

In the US, the ideological aftershock is closer to Germany s than to France s the US may not be overly prone to romanticism, but a cult of nature remains part of the American psyche.

But if I'm interested in potential, if I'm interested in your potential, or for happiness or productivity or energy or creativity, what we're doing is we're creating the cult of the average with science.

Tristram Shandy , a novel by Laurence Sterne, became a cult object in England and throughout Europe, with important cultural consequences among those who could afford to purchase books during the era of its publication.