How to Use personality cult in a Sentence

personality cult

noun
  • But the board ought to make sure its celebrity CEO is boosting the brand and the share price — not his personality cult.
    — Diane Brady, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2024
  • Efforts to foster what some observers describe as a personality cult around Xi can be traced to his early days in power.
    — Time, 16 June 2023
  • One party has turned into a personality cult around a criminal candidate.
    — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 13 Aug. 2024
  • Zhang was equally unsettled by the growing signs of a personality cult in Washington.
    — Nectar Gan, CNN Money, 12 May 2025
  • None ever turned his political party into a personality cult.
    — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 13 Jan. 2024
  • Florida’s move to name Altman directly plays into the personality cult many a techlord have fostered to varying degrees with their army of flacks and acting coaches.
    — Dominic Patten, Deadline, 1 June 2026
  • The personality cult that encircles Tommy feels more sinister than in the original production.
    — Julia Jacobs, New York Times, 12 July 2023
  • This has led to a personality cult of the individual creative genius who holds exclusive ownership to some magical artistic impulse.
    — Charlie Engman, ARTnews.com, 20 Sep. 2024
  • Imposing the personality cult upon the state is designed not only to burnish the leader’s image, but to create opportunities to smoke out dissidents.
    — Jonathan Chait, The Atlantic, 30 Dec. 2025
  • In a political party that has evolved into a personality cult, her apostasy resides in her refusal to worship its leader and in her defense of the Constitution.
    — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 10 Dec. 2023
  • His regime redefined Alawite identity to revolve around Assad’s personality cult.
    — Sefa Secen / Made By History, TIME, 17 Dec. 2024
  • Nasser ordered one of the most extensive political crackdowns in Egypt’s history and nurtured a personality cult that would remain until his death 16 years later.
    — Shadi Hamid, Washington Post, 16 July 2024
  • Surviving multiple early attempts on their lives can boost a political leader’s personality cult and claims of invincibility.
    — Ruth Ben-Ghiat, The Conversation, 25 July 2024
  • The narrative of India as the new economic miracle is foundational to both the personality cult of Modi and the legitimacy of his government at home and abroad.
    — Debasish Roy Chowdhury, TIME, 24 Apr. 2024
  • North Korea's Kim Jong Un maintains an iron grip through the threat and reality of labor camps and murder along with a fanatical propaganda personality cult.
    — Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 10 Jan. 2025
  • The crisis and its aftermath have demonstrated how India’s national security has become almost entirely captive to burnishing the personality cult of its leader.
    — Vaibhav Vats, The Atlantic, 21 May 2025
  • The party must put Maryland priorities first, such as fixing the budget crisis, cutting wasteful spending and delivering real results for residents ahead of any national personality cult.
    — Torrey Snow, Baltimore Sun, 3 June 2026
  • The Assad dynasty ruled Syria with an iron fist, using a personality cult and an indefatigable security apparatus – aspects of daily life for a half century that will require years to overcome and to heal.
    — Scott Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, 31 Jan. 2025
  • But for an individual to decide not to participate in a politicized ritual at an artistic institution now renamed, Soviet-style, after the still-living head of its reigning personality cult is not coercive.
    — Jonathan Chait, The Atlantic, 30 Dec. 2025
  • Netanyahu’s Likud Party, which has dominated Israeli politics since 1977, turned into a personality cult around its leader.
    — Aluf Benn, Foreign Affairs, 3 Jan. 2023
  • There was no personality cult hovering over the anonymous articles of the Soviet Constitution and the Code of Criminal Procedure.
    — Benjamin Nathans september 24, Literary Hub, 24 Sep. 2025
  • The lack of serious crypto policy proposals from GOP presidential candidates is not surprising—after all, much of the party has come to resemble a personality cult devoted to little more than lib-baiting.
    — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune Crypto, 26 July 2023
  • Modi's critics claim he's changed India in toxic ways from cracking down on media dissent to fostering a political personality cult, from actively causing divisions in India's disparate communities to outright social media censorship.
    — Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY, 21 June 2023

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