How to Use cult of personality in a Sentence

cult of personality

noun phrase

• There’s a cult of personality around Liz that doesn’t quite make sense to me yet.
  — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 4 Feb. 2024
• 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
• 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
• No one lords over a cult of personality right now, actively or passively, quite like Joni Mitchell.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 14 June 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Through his cult of personality, Modi is fulfilling a century-old project, recasting India as a Hindu nation, in which minorities, particularly Muslims, live at the sufferance of the majority.
  — Samanth Subramanian Vikas Adam Tanya Pérez Zachary Mouton, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2024
• 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

Last Updated: 11 Nov 2024