Example sentences for: cult

How can you use “cult” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Critical response to Woody Allen's cult of celebrity sendup is all over the map.

  • Either it's "clumsy, lumpy" (Joe Morgenstern, the Wall Street Journal ), or the sparring of co-stars Kate Winslet and Harvey Keitel (as a cult member and her deprogrammer) makes for a film that "creates more man-woman electricity than any other movie this year" (Mike Clark, USA Today ). The film's core, a showdown between Keitel and Winslet, is "a knockabout fusion of sexual warfare, New Age therapy, cross-generational Socratic dialogue, and feminist role reversal" (Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly ). Mentioned in nearly every review: 1) Winslet bares all; 2) Keitel ends up in a red dress and lipstick.

  • Kincaid believes we should hold on to the sweet, nonerotic dimensions of the Romantic child cult.

  • Balancing competing demands within a "cult of curability" may encourage physicians to evaluate success on the basis of curing, rather than on the basis of providing the best care for patients [ 17 ] . In such a system, it is easy to imagine how a resident's reluctance to propose alternative care approaches could result from intimidation by the accepted system rather than her own self-acknowledged lack of experience.

  • Time excerpts its own 1979 article about cult leaders Marshall Applewhite and Bonnie Lu Nettles (then "Bo" and "Peep").


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