Example sentences for: messianic

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

  • The Washington Times ' Brooke Allen likes the book, but complains that Eberstadt's tone becomes "overly messianic": It sometimes reads like a "pitch against the National Endowment for the Arts."

  • This messianic corporatism originated in Rockefeller's childhood in western New York state.

  • In the '60s, he succumbed to schizophrenia, believing himself a "messianic figure of great but secret importance" and writing cryptic messages, such as "Mao Tse-tung's Bar Mitzvah was 13 years, 13 months, and 13 days after Brezhnev's circumcision."

  • Anti-Castro Cuban expatriates have inserted him into a messianic narrative in which Elian, plucked from the sea, stands as Moses discovered among the bulrushes: Just as Moses led the Jews out of slavery in Egypt, so to will Elian free Cubans from Castro's rule.

  • When she had recovered somewhat, her messianic zeal got the better of her and she reminded him that, at his age, he should be more concerned with thoughts of the afterlife than with the prurient temptations of this one.


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