单词 | cult leader |
释义 | > as lemmascult leader b. In sense 2b, as cult leader, cult member, etc. ΚΠ 1906 Chicago Tribune 31 Oct. 1/3 (heading) Reporters allowed glance of cult leader feel as in presence of apparition. 1923 Los Angeles Times 1 May 4/2 (heading) Cult quiz to be resumed today... Decision expected on opening of member's grave. 1969 N.Y. Times 12 Dec. 76/1 Charles Manson, known to his hippie cult followers as ‘God’, ‘Jesus’, or ‘Satan’. 1978 Facts on File (Nexis) 24 Nov. a1 At Jonestown the soldiers were horrified to find the bodies of hundreds of cult members who had been shot or had committed suicide by drinking cyanide-laced Kool-Aid. 2006 P. Woit Not even Wrong xii. 196 To add to its mystique, the cult leader who coined the term never explained what the M stood for, and M-theorists heatedly debate this important issue. < as lemmas |
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