This was a cult of art, literature, and music, a cult that was revered in some circles.
The public earnestly puzzled over his theories, elevated him into a cult of genius, and canonized him as a secular saint.
Plenty of reading, too, about the Virgin including prayers and the 15 joys associated with her (there was a cult of Mary at the time).
Most advocates of markets have failed to fully make this distinction, perpetuating a cult of market meritocracy--something that has hindered, not helped, the cause of free markets.
There's a cult of the superb, small and artisanal, people like winemaker Manfred Krankl, and a drumbeat of demand for the enduring and recession-proof, like the jewelry of Fulco di Verdura.
Many of the world's best-known brands make a cult of simplicity: look at IKEA with its flat packs, McDonald's with its burgers or Berkshire Hathaway with its buy, improve and hold approach to investing.
Mr Berdymukhamedov's predecessor, Saparmurat Niyazov, who died in late 2006, built a cult of personality in the country and was responsible for a number of maverick policies, including banning opera and renaming the months.
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And while some may be inclined to dismiss them as a cult of upstart hippies, their behavior is more vintage and classically conservative than nouveau and socialist, most closely representing the habits of our grandparents and their parents.
French critics of the 1940s and 1950s made a cult of the film maudit, the film doomed to ruin at the hands of producers and distributors who took it upon themselves to re-edit or suppress a director's work.
Police in Peru say they have found the body of the alleged leader of a Chilean cult accused of burning a newborn baby alive last November.
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As dusk falls, settle into your deckchair, grab a blanket and watch from a selection of cult classics while surrounded by the twinkling lights of a busy city.
Here we have a young man who may well become a bit of a cult figure, or a hero.
Swanndri, a cult maker of outdoor wear, shows rugged farmers in its brochures to emphasise the durability of its clothes.
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Apple may be a cult sensation of sorts in the handheld device market, a media darling, but when it comes to smart phones, no one touches the Android operating system by Google.
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He performs a constant sacrifice of the banal, everyday object, as though it were a newfound Christ (the cult of the object is a new religio).
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The fact of the matter is, a lot of people who join the Cult of the Natural, as Amanda terms it, are progressive types with a deep suspicion of corporations.
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Keynes and his friends were part of a kind of mutual admiration cult of intelligence.
But this is as much a consequence of the cult of personality that the media has created around him as it is a result of the double standard applied to powerful men and less powerful women caught in flagrante delicto.
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He peddled Swanson's Unwritten Rules of Management, a small book that The New York Times described as "something of a cult hit in corporate America, " as his own.
In a matter of months, the book has developed something of a cult following.
Plus, the guy was a cult star, of Kill Bill and Kung Fu fame.
"If you can get the brand onto the right wrists, you can get a kind of cult following, " says LVMH's U.S. watch chief, Susan Nicholas.
Last December's Christie's auction in Los Angeles featured one lot that seemed irresistible: a poster for a film of a concert by Blue Oyster Cult and Black Sabbath, two out-of-work heavy-metal rock bands that still stubbornly sell old records to adoring fans.
Leaked sales and pre-order numbers for the Amazon Kindle suggest it is shaping up for a massive launch, according to Cult Of Android, which cites a verified source within Amazon and screenshots.
Urban Experiment, UX for short, is a highly secretive organization which has gained a cult following after successfully completing a series of high profile stunts deep under the city.
Chef Pui Gor of Tim Ho Wan, a cheap, hole-in-the-wall, dim-sum-only restaurant with a cult following, makes a contemporary version of a bean curd skin roll, filling it with light shrimp rather than the traditional fatty minced pork.
The actual game is a modified version of the cult sandbox game Minecraft, where players mine resources in a 3D world and use them to build various constructions.
In that film, Ms. Marling played an enigmatic beauty who might have been, as she claimed, a time-traveler from the future, or the cynical priestess of a crackpot cult in the San Fernando Valley.
In other recent sorcery-related killings, police arrested 29 people in July last year accused of being part of a cannibal cult in Papua New Guinea's jungle interior and charged them with the murders of seven suspected witch doctors.
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