| 单词 | quasi-religious |
| 例句 | Of course, quasi-religious talk about mind control is more appealing than a discussion of heat content and conductivity. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z That their fraternity engaged in quasi-religious chanting and oath taking and hosanna hailing, all of it top secret, made it that much more appealing. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z For many, losing oneself in a landscape of riotous reds, profound purples and outrageous oranges can be a quasi-religious experience. Beautiful Fall Foliage Drives 2010-10-26T22:00:00Z Adolescent love starts out possessively, yet this can also reflect a quasi-religious mindset which views women as chattel. The problem with ‘unfriending’ 2016-03-06T05:00:00Z Mr. Owens likes the odd couture flourish, as well as the quasi-religious symbol. Fashion Review: Paris Men?s Shows Offer Order Amid Chaos 2010-06-25T21:37:00Z “It didn’t feel so much like a dance club so much as a quasi-religious ritual.” Up Close: Guardian of the Pines 2011-05-25T20:25:53Z And suddenly this quirky campfire orchestra who bash ukuleles and sing in unison like a clean-cut gang of choristers starts to assume a quasi-religious quality. New band of the day (Walk Off the Earth No 1,500) 2013-04-25T16:33:34Z In the CBS show “Person of Interest,” two cloud-based A.I.s are locked in a power struggle, manipulating stock exchanges, operating shell corporations, and giving orders to acolytes who regard them with quasi-religious reverence. Sympathetic Sci-Fi 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z You’ve been marched from quasi-religious belief in transcendentalist possibility through stages of increasing materialism and absurdity, ending with Mr. Serra’s adamant existentialism. Art Review: ‘Re-View: Onnasch Collection’ Is a Postwar Journey 2014-02-20T23:25:13Z M. Night Shyamalan indulges his messianic side with "Devil," a quasi-religious supernatural thriller he has released under his The Night Chronicles production banner. 'Devil': Confining chills to a stalled elevator 2010-09-20T21:30:00Z The answer starts, I think, with the quasi-religious nature of physical fitness culture in general, with its cycle of sin, guilt and expiation. What most Americans don’t know about yoga 2016-03-27T04:00:00Z In the spirit of research, we added tantra and other quasi-religious practices into the mix and took classes in those, too. My tantric “awakening” turned me off sex 2013-03-17T01:00:00Z That show’s grand theatrical summation became a solemnly joyful, quasi-religious hymn of praise that fused Broadway and gospel traditions. Billy Porter Opens the American Songbook Series 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z Probably because "Gnod" resembles a conflation of "God" and "synod", they have an air about them of a quasi-religious sect, a cabal, a secret society. New band of the day - Gnod (No 1,439) 2013-01-25T15:06:00Z But farcical as it is, “The White Sheik” has a serious interest in fandom’s quasi-religious pathology. ‘The White Sheik’: Fellini’s Charming Farce About Fandom 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z Throwing her pen down in a rare outburst, Molly relates a quasi-religious tale of a dropped glove and a man on a train who realizes he’s lost one of a pair. 'Fargo' Recap: Morton's Fork: They've Come Undone 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z Mostly, these are chronicles of extreme male suffering, torments so ghastly they turn otherwise ordinary men into quasi-religious martyrs. Review: Tough Guys Tough It Out in ‘Papillon’ (Again!) 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z Atwood's mix of poetry and sharply observed social detail is devastating, and purposeful, too: a stark warning of what waits in the wings when a quasi-religious government has power over women's bodies. Why doesn't fiction deliver birth scenes? 2012-08-05T18:00:01Z The exhibition title, “Pilgrimage,” casts the project in a quasi-religious light. ‘Annie Leibovitz: Pilgrimage’ Reflects on Past Greats 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z Most likely to: Induce feelings of quasi-religious transcendence. New band of the day ? No 886: Oneohtrix Point Never 2010-10-13T16:44:00Z Like the Boulting adaptation, Mr. Joffe’s removes the novel’s final deadly sting, substituting a fateful, quasi-religious miracle that protects Rose from emotional ruin. | 'Brighton Rock': ?Brighton Rock,? Film of Graham Greene Novel - Review 2011-08-25T23:02:20Z One banner’s hand-painted message seemed to comically invoke Mr. Shaw’s quasi-religious career itself: “Rightly Dividing the Word of Truth.” Jim Shaw, From Trash Bins and Swap Meets, a Prodigious Body of Work 2015-10-04T04:00:00Z It results from the quasi-religious devotion that the genre attracts, and that it needs in order to maintain its validity. "Ant-Man" Is a Superhero Movie for Skeptics 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z For Ms. Mackenzie, the observing and painting are acts of quasi-religious devotion. Review: Lucy Mackenzie, ‘Quiet,’ at Nancy Hoffman Gallery 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z And then, several minutes in, there is a flood of colour followed by a quasi-religious epiphany reflecting the title. New band of the day – East India Youth (No 1,455) 2013-02-19T17:01:00Z Considering the quasi-religious dimension of Mr. Laib’s enterprise, I find myself oscillating between belief and skepticism. Art Review: Wolfgang Laib’s ‘Pollen From Hazelnut,’ at MoMA 2013-01-31T22:54:04Z He even adopts the quasi-religious language of the social justice left in describing an intellectual awakening about the persistence of racism and sexism in American society. Did Max Boot Turn His Back on the Republican Party, or Did the Party Turn Its Back on Him? 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z These include other quasi-religious images — Mr. Condo grew up as a Roman Catholic — including a Mary Magdalene with bared breasts and sticking-out rodent ears. Art Review: A Mind Where Picasso Meets Looney Tunes 2011-01-27T22:41:49Z From their first days as young students, they’re immersed in strict, quasi-religious traditions. Ballet dancers have weird and quirky pre-show rituals that would put any sports star to shame 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z Any danceability is achieved by the rhythmic propulsion of the drums and bass, and any quasi-religious atmosphere is enhanced by the choral harmonies. New band of the day: Tokolosh (No 1,487) 2013-04-08T16:06:47Z So, after travelling on a ferry from the O2 to Trinity Buoy Wharf, punters can expect loud music, quasi-religious ritual cabaret, video technology and cocoa. This week's new theatre 2010-07-09T23:06:00Z If I were really a geek, which of course I'm not, I would tell you that there's this long-running quasi-religious element within the fantasy tradition about that. Miranda July faces "The Future" 2011-07-27T00:30:00Z Invocations of quasi-religious experience — Comic-Con as “sacred space,” plot points and character traits as “canon” — are commonplace at the panels. At Comic-Con, Bring Out Your Fantasy and Fuel the Culture 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z Appearing in a section called “The Homes We Fought For,” the image wonderfully captures a spirit of quasi-religious patriotism animating the dream of homeownership in mid-20th-century America. Art in Review: ‘Selling the Dwelling’: ‘The Books That Built America’s Houses, 1775-2000’ 2014-01-16T22:48:13Z That quasi-religious belief in every person’s potential for genius persists in the ethos of mainstream contemporary art. Inspiration Made Concrete in ‘Self-Taught Genius’ Exhibition 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z Hard not to see the influence of Renaissance Italy in these landscapes, portraits and quasi-religious scenes. The Sublime Farewell of Gerhard Richter, Master of Doubt 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z Apple has often seemed at risk of mutating from technology company to quasi-religious cult, and its full-scale entry to the TV content market went very close to full Media Moonie. Apple TV+: less a rival to Netflix, more a smug religious cult 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z Certainly, trendy diets and quasi-religious zeal have long gone hand in hand, a point familiar to anyone who has ever endured a newcomer to, say, Atkins spinning out soliloquies on cheese omelets. The Paleo Lifestyle: The Way, Way, Way Back 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z They have some goals, like pairing early and contemporary repertoire to essayistic effect, or giving the quasi-religious themes a political edge. The Classical Music Event of the Summer Is in Salzburg’s Shadow 2022-08-01T04:00:00Z Played by Mr. Waked as a starry-eyed New Age mystic who somewhat resembles the young Ben Kingsley in his quasi-religious mode, he is given to spouting inspirational mumbo-jumbo. Movie Review: ?Salmon Fishing in the Yemen,? With Ewan McGregor 2012-03-08T23:10:43Z All this has earned Jacobson and Glazer a quasi-religious loyalty from a generation of fans who feel the pair has brought their experience to TV for the first time. Broad City: meet the 21st century comedy queens that even Hillary loves 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z James Franco's creepy gangsta character in this film is always intoning the words: "Spring Breeeeaaak …" in a state of bleary ecstasy, as if invoking, or desecrating, a quasi-religious icon. Spring Breakers – review 2013-04-04T15:58:00Z Bill Viola goes for big, cosmic themes, which he funnels into technically impressive video works of compelling, quasi-religious sincerity. Bill Viola’s New Video Project Is a Rebirth of Sorts 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z It’s a quasi-religious fable about a man haunted by the past and facing a profound moral and existential crisis in the present, and it’s a dazzling display of virtuoso cinematic technique and showboat performances. “Birdman”: Michael Keaton heads an all-star cast in a crackling showbiz satire 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z Masonic and Odd Fellow lodges mushroomed in the United States in the 18th and 19th centuries, giving rise to a fascinating, quasi-religious material culture. The Art of Secret Societies, Filled With Codes and Glyphs 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z But where Fraz has been sinking since birth, Hark is rising — as in “glory to the newborn king” rising — through mental archery, a quasi-religious mindfulness regimen of his own creation. A Madcap New Novel Bursts With Fake Gurus, Yoga and a Bit of Bone-Marrow Smuggling 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z Audiences became more docile as the middle classes learned to revere culture and to regard theatergoing as a quasi-religious rite. Spectators Walk Out of a Show for Many Reasons 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z “I found this was a quasi-religious movement, and that’s the sort of thing that happens in those dynamics.” 'It was quasi-religious': the great self-esteem con 2017-06-03T04:00:00Z What has prompted him to settle down with Kate and embrace everydayness with quasi-religious devotion? We Still Live Within the Mediated, Alienated World of “The Moviegoer” 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z Will we respond with “belief,” with a quasi-religious attachment to values that, because of the realities they exclude, risk ultimately leaving us even more traumatized? How “Life of Pi” anticipated 9/11 2013-04-28T19:00:00Z Such quasi-religious sentiment is all too much for a large section of society that opposed Chavez and now his successor, President Nicolas Maduro. 'Hugo Chavez studies': Venezuela's latest academic trend 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z At the beginning we had the quasi-religious element, and this became more apparent in the middle. Pink Floyd: 'They don't dig creative complacency' – a classic feature 2013-03-06T15:27:41Z The mood of the film suggests a quasi-religious séance in which Mr. Sutton acts as a conjurer of elusive truths about the city and its heady musical culture. ‘Memphis,’ From Tim Sutton, Mixes Music and Mysticism 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z But why the medium no longer elicits such quasi-religious devotion from later generations of artists remains to be explained. Art In Review: ‘Reinventing Abstraction: New York Painting in the 1980s’ 2013-07-11T21:08:09Z Beyond its strategic value, Crime has a special resonance for Russians — “an emotional and almost sort of quasi-religious kind of thing,” said Sam Greene, a professor of Russian politics at King’s College London. The Crimean Peninsula is both a playground and a battleground, coveted by Ukraine and Russia 2023-07-31T04:00:00Z However, his adjustment stands to change more than he hopes — including a feature that is key to the platform’s quasi-religious appeal. Opinion | Elon Musk excommunicates the priestly caste of Twitter 2023-04-06T04:00:00Z This quasi-religious posturing will only intensify as trial dates approach. Column: Trump's indictment is a historic first. Here's why more are likely to follow 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z So for Szasz, this quasi-religious gesture had the feeling of a genesis, a new beginning, though how thoroughly he adapts to the American reverence for the writer is still to be seen. With ‘Angels in America,’ a Hungarian director puts down roots in U.S. 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z He scoffed at democracy as a Western import unsuited to China, and he launched a series of campaigns against dissent, most notably a brutal assault on the quasi-religious Falun Gong movement. China’s former president Jiang Zemin, who ruled after Tiananmen, dies at 96 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z It wasn’t lost on Paul Morantz as he charged after the cults and quasi-religious and self-help groups he believed had duped, imprisoned or brainwashed his many clients that he was putting himself in peril. Paul Morantz dies; L.A. attorney nearly killed when cult planted rattlesnake in his mailbox 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z On his social media site Truth Social, the former president quotes and spreads conspiracy theories from the quasi-religious QAnon. Trump-backed candidates are mainstreaming white nationalism and racist conspiracy theories 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z This goes well beyond the tormented, quasi-religious reasoning used by the court's conservative majority in Dobbs v. When FDR tried to pack the Supreme Court: A lesson for Dark Brandon? 2022-09-04T04:00:00Z Some were formal in their practice, some quasi-religious, and then there was this one irreverent guy who seemed not to take it so seriously. Perspective | Feeling anxious? Can’t sleep? Sometimes doing nothing is the best. 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z But in Europe a dozen years later, a “halfway” compromise between Russian militarism elevated to mystical, quasi-religious intensity and Franco-German “peace through union” appears almost unthinkable. Two Europes Confront Each Other Over the Glory, or Shame, of War 2022-05-07T04:00:00Z I also believe that this vision is quasi-religious. Putin's endgame: Will it be stalemate, nuclear war — or regime change in Moscow? 2022-03-22T04:00:00Z Squirrelly little themes in the winds blow in this quasi-religious wind. Review: A new piano concerto by Daníel Bjarnason gets a little help from Edgar Allan Poe 2022-02-22T05:00:00Z But it was also a way to get closer to the movie itself, to assume the kind of quasi-religious posture that cinema at its most rapturous can inspire. The best movies of 2021 — and where to find them 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z In 2015, when Jack Dorsey rejoined Twitter as its interim chief executive, he raved about the app with quasi-religious fervor, calling it “the closest thing we have to a global consciousness.” Dorsey’s Twitter Departure Hints at Tech Moguls’ Restlessness 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z Since the 1970s, Western political and corporate leaders have peddled a quasi-religious belief in the power of "free markets" and unbridled capitalism to solve all the world's problems. Neoliberalism vs. the planet's future: It's a decisive moment — and there are signs of hope 2021-10-23T04:00:00Z Some, including the Rev. Dr. Calvin O. Butts III, the pastor of Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem, have used sermons to preach the virtues of vaccination in quasi-religious terms. ‘A safe space’: Black pastors promote vaccinations from the pulpit 2021-10-09T04:00:00Z It also gave rise to, or at least reinforced, a quasi-religious belief in the power of the human mind to solve almost anything with technology, given adequate time and resources. The social and environmental perils of magical thinking 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z Or woke zealots are conducting a quasi-religious purge. Opinion | Ted Cruz, I’m Sorry 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z Hikers, unemployed 20- to 30-year-olds seeking purpose, and older, rich professionals turning away from their past came — and often stayed — for Beainy’s pastiche of quasi-religious utterances and aphorisms on life and how to live it. Climate change and corruption endanger an ancient valley in Lebanon 2021-02-21T05:00:00Z It may seem mundane now, but at the time, this was described in quasi-religious terms. Opinion | The First Step Is Admitting You Have a Problem 2021-02-05T05:00:00Z Impassioned and haunted, he had what his wife later called “a quasi-religious streak.” Neil Sheehan Dies at 84; Times Reporter Obtained the Pentagon Papers 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z Several of her books feature libraries, which she avidly visited as a child, and imbues with a quasi-religious power. How Julia Donaldson conquered the world, one rhyme at a time 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z None of this means that repeating “Listen to the science” as a quasi-religious mantra will undo the damage he’s done. Opinion | Repeating ‘listen to the science’ won’t undo the damage Trump has done 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z In fact, the United States is unusual among advanced democracies in its practice of treating its constitution as a quasi-religious text whose meaning has to be divined chiefly through detailed textual analysis. Opinion | The Supreme Court might have to choose between power and principle 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z There are secret doors, magic spells and the familiar sight of rich old jerks in monkish robes conducting quasi-religious rites in the pursuit of unimagined power and some decadent idea of purity. Review: 'Lovecraft Country' is a middle finger to a century of racist sci-fi 2020-08-07T04:00:00Z With their heady mix of quasi-religious iconography and science-as-salvation propaganda, these pictures offer a glorious romp through retro-futurism—and a hopeful vision of the endless possibilities for the human spirit in the depths of space. The Lost Worlds of Soviet Space Graphics [Slideshow] 2020-04-23T04:00:00Z But the quasi-religious escapism that pervades the genre seems like a cop-out when science fiction has so much real science to work with. Why Joaquin Phoenix's Oscar speech doesn't seem so crazy in our coronavirus times 2020-04-15T04:00:00Z A century ago, our politics sounded pretty similar and were at least as much imbued with quasi-religious zealotry. From Bryan to Bernie 2020-02-09T05:00:00Z At a time when so many religious institutions are seen as hypocritical and corrupt, making a wholehearted, quasi-religious investment in secular institutions is a tall order. Review | A call to restore America’s institutions, and to let them restore us 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z But as obvious as some of them are — cardigan as quasi-religious icon — the true ripples of his work reveal themselves more quietly, percolating beneath the collective consciousness. Across Mister Rogers’ actual neighborhoods, his faith echoes 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z But as obvious as some of them are - cardigan as quasi-religious icon - the true ripples of his work reveal themselves more quietly, percolating beneath the collective consciousness. Across Mister Rogers’ actual neighborhoods, his faith echoes 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z Imperial power in China was always backed by a quasi-religious dogma. Opinion | The Tenacity of Chinese Communism 2019-09-28T04:00:00Z Her quasi-religious talks and books began to attract Hollywood’s attention. Marianne Williamson: can love beat Trump? 2019-07-30T04:00:00Z By far and away the most prevalent term to be bandied around in the wake of Tiger’s stunning comeback is “redemption” – a word which connotes a quasi-religious passage from sin to salvation. Tiger Woods’ Masters win was no tale of redemption – it was revenge | Marina Hyde 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z Documentary about the rise of the politically active quasi-religious movement known as the Satanic Temple. What movies are opening this week? ‘Red Joan,’ ‘Drunk Parents’ and more 2019-04-14T04:00:00Z But they also saw fundamental flaws in the quasi-religious adoration of the spirit of democracy. Adams family values: two presidents with a message for Trump's America 2019-04-13T04:00:00Z It's a quasi-religious piece, but one that leaves room for spiritually sensitive atheists. Cancer, chemo and 'The Sacred Veil': Master Chorale sings a search for solace 2019-02-19T05:00:00Z As far as quasi-religious national obsessions go for large portions of a country’s population, the German aversion to speed limits on the autobahn is up there with gun control in America and whaling in Japan. Impose a Speed Limit on the Autobahn? Not So Fast, Many Germans Say 2019-02-03T05:00:00Z It was a return to the world of fairy tales and hallucinations, of the kind of quasi-religious nationalist politics that have fueled the Brexit project from the start. Perspective | The collective madness behind Britain’s latest Brexit plan 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z Ms. Oliver often described her vocation as the observation of life, and it is clear from her texts that she considered the vocation a quasi-religious one. Mary Oliver, Prize-Winning Poet of the Natural World, Dies at 83 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z Football has quasi-religious status in Brazil and becoming a professional player is every Brazilian boy's dream. The Brazilian footballer who never was 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z This is a linguistic means of signalizing the quasi-religious authority of the nation. Donald Trump spell-check: Why does Our Leader insist on capitalizing “Country”? 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z The core tenets of this quasi-religious belief system are: Think the giants of Silicon Valley have your best interests at heart? Think again | John Naughton 2018-10-21T04:00:00Z There was a weird, and very un-British, quasi-religious undercurrent to all this — a sense that things would work if you just believed in them hard enough. Perspective | The collective madness behind Britain’s latest Brexit plan 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z His unabashed invocation of quasi-religious values in politics and his key value of self-sacrifice are also likely to disconcert many readers today. Gandhi for the Post-Truth Age 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z Soon afterward, he took the quasi-religious honorific “Augustus.” Is the Aeneid a Celebration of Empire—or a Critique? 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z The decline of traditional religious denominations, the rise of televangelism and the spread of quasi-religious fake history narratives to reinterpret the U.S. Right’s attack on birthright citizenship: A new front in the battle for the Constitution 2018-07-29T04:00:00Z My other quasi-religious activities included posting social media updates about how the incredibly bad singing coming from the Baptist church across the street from my Harlem apartment was disrespectful to Jesus. Opinion | How I Made It Back to Church 2018-07-21T04:00:00Z The Chihuahua Street supplicants voiced a quasi-religious conviction that Amlo would succeed. 'I'm asking for help': Mexico's poor petition outside president-elect's HQ 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z Outside, street hawkers peddled T-shirts and trinkets emblazoned with the image and the gospel of a man who followers describe in quasi-religious terms and detractors dismiss as Mexico’s populist “tropical messiah”. Mexico election: voters head to polls as leftist Amlo expected to cruise to victory 2018-07-01T04:00:00Z The United States is a marvelous place, he says, suggesting American exceptionalism, which can be a quasi-religious conviction that God favors our nation above all others. Opinion | America can’t take its salvation for granted 2018-06-04T04:00:00Z Cults and Extreme Belief A quasi-religious organization called the Children of God is examined in this new installment. Tuesday's TV highlights: 'Humans' on AMC and more 2018-06-04T04:00:00Z Glenn Beck is famous for his conspiratorial chalkboards, nutty morning-zoo antics and teary, quasi-religious passion. Perspective | Sean Hannity isn’t a leader. He’s just a fan of powerful Republicans. 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z Mark Bradford, a professor of soils and ecosystem ecology at Yale, questions what he sees as a quasi-religious belief in the benefits of soil carbon. Can Dirt Save the Earth? 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z I didn’t see how some dry, formal, quasi-religious ceremony could possibly begin to represent my mum, and thought that her memory was best kept alive by less tangible but more real means. Brett Anderson: ‘I had started my musical journey wanting to be the quiet one at the back’ 2018-02-25T05:00:00Z His base still turns out for his rallies with quasi-religious fervour, worshipping the president and – no less importantly – venting hatred at his enemies: it is the force of anti-anti-Trumpism. Trump's America: his impact so far and what to watch for in 2018 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z To the Chinese government, the fact that a quasi-religious organisation stubbornly outside party control could inspire huge numbers of people to action was reason for concern. The traditional Chinese dance troupe China doesn’t want you to see 2017-12-12T05:00:00Z In Montreal, where the Canadiens inspire quasi-religious devotion, Morenz remains a senior saint, immortalized by a statue outside the team’s Bell Centre home. Still Chasing the Stratford Streak, 80 Years After He Left the Ice 2017-06-17T04:00:00Z Brown describes Xi, who spent decades rising through the party’s ranks before reaching its pinnacle in 2012, as a man with a quasi-religious devotion to the 88 million-member organisation he now controls. How Xi Jinping's global ambitions could thrive as Trump turns inward 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z In doing so, he turns the unlikely subject of a fast-food chain into a quasi-religious satire, a parable of American striving and, ultimately, a study of artisanal integrity gradually caving in to commercial compromise. Michael Keaton reveals the face of American greed in the shrewd McDonald's drama 'The Founder' 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z Hero worship is a rich seam in south Indian culture: actors, politicians and even armed bandits regularly become the subject of quasi-religious devotion. Jayalalithaa Jayaram, Tamil Nadu's 'iron lady', dies at 68 2016-12-06T05:00:00Z Once inside, mourners lay yellow chrysanthemums at the feet of a three-metre marble statue of the revolutionary leader, in a quasi-religious display of reverence. Great Helmsman or ruinous dictator? China remembers Mao, 40 years after death 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z What about his work encourages boundless ridicule and quasi-religious hysteria? Looking back at Channel Orange, the album that made Frank Ocean an icon 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z "What we see instead is a moody, quasi-religious tableau of naked, vulnerable, strangely peaceful bodies at rest," West said. Kanye West's video for Famous is damn genius clickbait 2016-06-25T04:00:00Z It’s also striking how reliant the anti-religion side is on government coercion—and a zeal for punishing heretics that itself reflects a quasi-religious fervor. Big Win for Little Sisters 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z Reagan, of course, was a master of the quasi-religious tone. American exceptionalism: the great game and the noble way 2016-04-09T04:00:00Z When Juliana’s sister tells her about the resistance, it’s in quasi-religious terms of purpose and meaning, more evangelism than recruitment. The Man in the High Castle is a timely political narrative — against political narratives 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z Beall soon became involved in the tangle of Maryland’s quasi-religious politics. Restoring a proper name in Georgetown 2015-11-20T05:00:00Z She made the essential point: “It’s really important that people not approach economic policy as ideology or with quasi-religious convictions,” Freeland said. Why Trudeau matters more than Gowdy 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z It attempts to bridge class divides through the combination of a strong, authoritative leader, a highly centralized and generous social welfare state, and heavy doses of quasi-religious nationalist sentiment. You can’t understand Pope Francis without Juan Perón — and Evita 2015-08-01T04:00:00Z And even if they were not, isn’t the quasi-religious hush that descends wherever it is invoked worrying in itself? Down with Kickstarter! Where art is concerned, the crowd is an idiot 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z Some dislike the quasi-religious element, others the emphasis on complete abstinence rather than the possibility of moderate consumption. The many groups that have copied Alcoholics Anonymous - BBC News 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z For some, being an anti-vaxer is a quasi-religious belief system impervious to data and reason. Vaccinations: Vermont Chooses Health Over Fear 2015-05-30T04:00:00Z A famous annual jamboree, the showpiece of the nation’s favourite pastime, the culmination of a long season, a quasi-religious affair, a pseudo public holiday for all the family to enjoy. A brief history of ... the rise and fall of the FA Cup, England's Super Bowl 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z Jean Nidetch, who helped found Weight Watchers, the organization that turned dieting into a quasi-religious quest as well as a business, died in Florida. Latest News: More Marches, Bernie Sanders, Navy SEALs 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z When President Obama releases his budget Monday, the words “dead on arrival” will be widely incanted because they are part of a quasi-religious Beltway ritual. E.J. Dionne: Why Obama’s new budget will put pressure on Republicans 2015-02-01T05:00:00Z Compared with the quasi-religious national spectacle that more than a hundred million Americans will watch next Sunday, the 1967 confrontation looked almost like a high school scrimmage. Before the Bowl Was Super 2015-01-24T05:00:00Z These books “inevitably” stray into “quasi-religious territory. ‘Don’t be evil’ is Google’s famous mantra.” Is Google Doing Anything New? 2014-11-28T05:00:00Z The inevitably inspirational character of many business books can easily take off into quasi-religious territory. When G.M. Was Google 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z The staying power of sports grows out of its special place in society and quasi-religious status. Brand Fallout From NFL Player Bad Behavior? Don't Count On It 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z It maintains a stranglehold on religious belief and practice, which are seen as threatening the state and the quasi-religious personality cult surrounding the ruling Kim family. Guest: World must pressure North Korea on human rights 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z Earth has been visited by a quasi-religious entity known as the Traveller, which has helped mankind develop interstellar warp drives. Destiny: behind the scenes of the world's most expensive video game 2014-09-01T04:00:00Z In a much-quoted passage at the end of “The Origin of Species,” Darwin wrote elegantly of a quasi-religious “grandeur” in the scientific view. Book review: ‘The Serpent’s Promise,’ on Bible-Science tensions, by Steve Jones “Demons” remain a convenient but debilitating euphemism, three centuries after the Scientific Revolution and long after we’ve discarded quasi-religious explanations for other diseases. Robin Williams Did Not Have Demons. He Had a Disease. Or Several. Conservatives generally reconcile laissez-faire economics and statist social policies with a quasi-religious belief in the status quo. American Politics Is Split On Morals, Not Religion 2014-07-19T04:00:00Z In China’s Shandong Province, six members of a quasi-religious cult are arrested for the fatal beating inside a McDonald’s restaurant of a woman who refused to give out her phone number. Video: Chinese Cult Fanatics Arrested for Fatal McDonald's Beating 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z If the appeal were simply a quasi-religious energy, we could write that off as something performative, inconsequential, likely to last no longer than the evening itself. Nigel Farage, George Galloway … why we're queuing up to listen to the mavericks 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z As with Walmart so at Amazon, there is a quasi-religious cult of the customer as an object of “trust” and “care”; Amazon “cares about the customer,” and “everything is driven” for him or her. Worse than Wal-Mart: Amazon’s sick brutality and secret history of ruthlessly intimidating workers 2014-02-23T11:59:00Z The Knights grew out of a gang in Michoacan known as La Familia, a quasi-religious group that waged a local war against the Zetas, the most notorious cartel in Mexico. Vigilantes vs. narcos: a security threat in Mexico badlands 2014-01-27T06:14:44Z The goal of those who conceived the dioramas, he said, was quasi-religious. Fred F. Scherer, Diorama Painter Who Mastered Even the Illusion of Air, Dies at 98 2013-12-09T01:44:10Z Lasha Kabadze, director of the Georgian State Museum of Literature and an expert on Stalinism, said many Georgians retain a patriotic or quasi-religious adoration for Stalin. In Stalin's Hometown, 'Uncle Joe' Poised for a Comeback 2013-10-01T03:21:11Z The duo at the heart of this quasi-religious network met through work. An Atheist Church? 2013-09-21T09:45:00Z The grand entrance, stark lighting, glorious frame, hushed tones and attendant security guards are all part of the quasi-religious theatre. Too famous to see? 2013-05-21T02:48:28Z With every article or talk, Greenfield deepens her quasi-religious vision of a lost golden age before computers devoured our humanity. Susan Greenfield and the rise of the Facebook zombies 2013-04-08T14:44:50Z Like Armstrong, they all failed to grasp the role they were supposed to play in a symbolic and quasi-religious drama. Why do we care if Lance apologizes? 2013-01-20T20:00:00Z But on display was their quasi-religious connection with the president — and the refusal among many to acknowledge his mortality. Chávez Put Party Unity Before Another Cancer Surgery 2012-12-10T01:50:05Z A night ruined by agony over the possibility of having lost "this quasi-religious object" was followed by a fruitless return to Harvey Nicks – but the talismanic woolly did turn up at Jenners. Media Monkey: George Entwistle, iPads, and Sarah Lund's sweater 2012-12-09T19:19:01Z He was not a "normal" politician - someone who promises policies like lower taxes and better health care - but a quasi-religious leader who offered almost spiritual goals of redemption and salvation. The dark charisma of Hitler 2012-11-12T00:30:13Z The quasi-religious ritual of the print Sunday Times and the immediacy of its always-on alerts represent the Times that Sulzberger preserved and the Times he enabled it to become. Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Former New York Times Publisher, Dies at 86 2012-09-29T19:05:32Z I wonder if the grocer's daughter within Margaret Thatcher ever rises to the surface to survey the chaos caused by her quasi-religious belief in home ownership. Charity shop blues 2012-09-21T17:04:20Z In a text message sent to friends and associates, Mr. Li compared the current protesters to the Boxers, a quasi-religious group that was used by the Qing dynasty to oppose foreign incursions. Anti-Japanese Protests Over Disputed Islands Continue in China 2012-09-16T12:36:51Z In quasi-religious language, he described last Thursday, when Ecuador granted him political asylum. Assange Makes His Case 2012-08-19T15:08:00Z While the promise of a new home is a vote-winner among Venezuela's poor majority, opponents scoff at it as crass electioneering and say the quasi-religious adulation of Chavez is offensive in a Roman Catholic nation. Venezuela election ads glorifying Chavez irk foes 2012-06-26T15:35:22Z Technology news sites are awash with videos of early interviews showing an unblinking, dry-mouthed twentysomething struggling to explain his quasi-religious belief in engineering and openness. Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg: from Harvard hijinks to hoody billionaire 2012-05-18T16:42:03Z It placed many Thais in the uncomfortable position of questioning which they valued more: democracy or a monarch many view with quasi-religious devotion. Debates raged. Thai Grandfather Jailed for Text Messages Dies in Prison 2012-05-09T09:06:24Z The quasi-religious nature of the uprising is shown in the functions exercised by the leaders, who acted the part of bishops, blessing the people, sprinkling holy water, and even celebrating marriages. A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I 2012-04-17T02:00:16.473Z And the other aspect of their doctrine, its quasi-religious side, though not by any means the last word about religion, is a valuable first lesson in the reality of religion. The Five Great Philosophies of Life 2012-03-09T03:00:19.413Z The former crystallised as an imperial muscular Christianity, the later as a form of quasi-religious cosmopolitanism. The Spirit of the Game: How Sport Made the Modern World by Mihir Bose ? review 2012-02-12T00:05:07Z In medieval mystic writings, particularly Sufi texts, it is unclear whether the beloved being addressed is a teenage boy or God, providing a quasi-religious sanction for relationships between men and boys. Islam and homosexuality: Straight but narrow 2012-02-02T16:03:12Z The earnest quasi-religious study of the medieval beginnings of western art has therefore rightly been set down as another cause for some of the latter-day pilgrimages to Assisi. The Thirteenth Greatest of Centuries 2012-01-28T03:00:21.937Z In the New Hebrides and Banks Islands the quasi-religious character of the custom has not yet given place to everyday use, and yankona is not drunk by women. The Fijians A Study of the Decay of Custom 2011-12-30T03:00:25.917Z “I do not understand the quasi-religious discussions about quantitative easing,” Bini Smaghi, who will leave his post at the end of the month, said in an interview published yesterday by the Financial Times. Bini Smaghi Says ECB Should Use QE If Deflation Danger Arises 2011-12-23T06:32:06Z Their movement is a religious or quasi-religious movement; personality is one condition of success there, and impressions and intuitions seem to accomplish more than chemical, anatomical or physiological information.... The Letters of William James, Vol. II 2011-11-24T03:00:48.427Z At times, the sheik is talked about in almost quasi-religious terms. Column: United vs. City now a clash of equals 2011-10-22T17:17:10Z In the current Prime Minister's hometown of Saint Petersburg, posters proliferate of him as an angel extending his hand blessing the city's inhabitants, while civic and political leaders regularly praise him emphatically in quasi-religious terms. Small Russian Orthodox Sect Considers Vladimir Putin a Saint 2011-10-04T15:05:00Z Earnest Churchmen had, all through this century, more important abuses to combat than these quasi-religious convivialities; and we find no voice raised against church-ales until the new puritanism of the Reformation. Chaucer and His England 2011-09-01T02:00:19.940Z The iconic iPod, the iPhone -- dubbed the "Jesus phone" for its quasi-religious following -- and the iPad are the creation of a man known for his near-obsessive control of the product development process. Newsmaker: Steve Jobs has a different operating system 2011-08-25T03:25:25Z Other expressions of the same character furnish a religious or quasi-religious setting to Franklin's thoughts upon his own dissolution. Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume I (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings 2011-08-16T02:00:37.443Z He's now a quasi-religious figure in a country desperate for a math Moses. Sal Khan: The Messiah of Math 2011-05-19T21:00:00Z There is a quasi-religious watercolor by Dalí, who studied art in Madrid at the same time as Vicente. | Long Island: Midcentury Collectivism 2011-03-12T01:53:39Z Its foundations in the Romantic movement of the 19th Century imbued bohemians with an almost quasi-religious sense of purpose. What is bohemian? 2011-03-11T15:12:58Z Photograph: ABACA/PA With all the hyperbole and bunting of a quasi-religious experience, Apple unleashed its touchscreen tablet computer on the world in April 2010. 20 things we learned in 2010 2010-12-26T00:07:13Z It is a precondition of following Liverpool that the club's most celebrated figures assume quasi-religious status. Liverpool catharsis began in court and must be completed on the pitch 2010-10-14T15:49:00Z For me, Thatcherite neo-liberals make the profound intellectual and moral error of "believing in capitalism" in a quasi-religious way. Vince Cable is right: capitalism is neither good nor evil ? just useful 2010-09-23T08:00:00Z And both celebrate the awesome power of industry, especially “Edison Plant,” in which the artist bathes a factory scene in a quasi-religious aura; white halos surround the smokestacks. 2010-02-06T04:19:00Z The reverential spirit which abolished applause in church has tended to spread to the theatre and the concert-room, largely under the influence of the quasi-religious atmosphere of the Wagner performances at Baireuth. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 3 "Apollodorus" to "Aral" They have a special bearing on Galton’s belief that a quasi-religious enthusiasm for eugenics may be built up. Rustic Sounds and Other Studies in Literature and Natural History My plan briefly was to write a quasi-religious Novel with a Purpose. Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 98 June 7, 1890 But it's a slightly quasi-religious take on the matter, and therefore a bit responsibility-shifting and simplistic. Vince Cable is right: capitalism is neither good nor evil ? just useful 2010-09-23T08:00:00Z The centers of movement, civic and quasi-religious or philanthropic, are usually the outgrowth of individual effort. Euthenics, the science of controllable environment a plea for better living conditions as a first step toward higher human efficiency This depressing publication, aptly entitled “Made in Germany,” has received the quasi-religious benediction of an enterprising and esoteric journalist, and the puff direct from a sportive ex-Prime Minister. Are we Ruined by the Germans? The whole criminal code of Quebec was, indeed, of a piece with this; and an obvious feature was the quasi-religious character of most of the offences. Old Quebec The Fortress of New France The summits of fantasy are scaled in the quasi-religious dramas of “The Ape Sun Wu Kung” and “Notscha,” or the weird sorceries unfolded in “The Kindly Magician.” The Chinese Fairy Book It was a very different personality which shone forth from those sharp black eyes now, than the smug, quasi-religious man who had spoken before. Traffic in Souls A Novel of Crime and Its Cure Their aims being purely social and domestic, and those of a quasi-religious Friendly Society, resembling something between their 'Band of Hope' and their 'Antediluvian Buffaloes.' The Message So far we have been considering the growth of the simpler religious ideas and the parallel development of a quasi-religious social organization. Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV Survivals at Rome of previous eras of quasi-religious experience. The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus For the human anguish of the one he had no sympathy; for the quasi-religious sorrows of the other he had very much. A Forgotten Hero Not for Him For, as the spiritual power was also temporal, so the temporal political power had, like everything else in the Middle Ages, a quasi-religious significance. German Culture Past and Present Indeed they insist upon this, and assiduously cultivate a kind of lethargic and quasi-religious manner which is supposed to be very impressive. Among Famous Books He said he did not admit that he had any "spiritual faculty" which acted in isolation from the intellect; that religious faith must be founded on religious truth, and even quasi-religious faith on quasi-religious truth. The Eclipse of Faith Or, A Visit To A Religious Sceptic But the quasi-religious music has no charms for me. Richard Wagner Composer of Operas It is a jungle where the traveller wanders without advancing, and a puppet-show, a vain worldly amusement which wears a false appearance of religion because it is diverting itself with quasi-religious problems. Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1 But in early communities all customs that touched the State were quasi-religious; to ensure their due performance, they were carried out by religious officials. Ancient Town-Planning These organizations are often of a quasi-religious or pseudo-religious character, and are participated in by both men and women. Theory of the Leisure Class Apuleius was one of those minds not uncommon in a decaying civilization, in which extreme quasi-religious exaltation alternates with impure hilarity. The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius Such answers, however, reinforce the quasi-religious nature of the Stallman message. Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software Braubach, Prof., on the quasi-religious feeling of a dog towards his master; on the self-restraint of dogs. The Descent of Man An entire hierarchy of daimones was imagined, and on this a system of quasi-religious philosophy was founded, of which Apuleius is the popular exponent. The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius |
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