Sentence examples for christ figure from inspiring English sources

I must confess, separating the human Jesus from the Christ figure of scripture is like parsing wheat from chaff during a windstorm.

The Christ figure is immobile and remote.

Bartlett implied that any mass movement needed a Christ figure.

Matthew Passion," he notes that he staged the opera portraying Tom Rakewell as a Christ figure.

Verhoeven's RoboCop brought a hardwired Christ figure to a society geared around corporate profit.

Magnus is a Christ figure, murdered by an impure world: spiritual victory over earthly temptation.

But even a Christ figure needs more of an interior life than Mr. Arcand gives Daniel.

He's a holy bad boy, a two-fisted Christ figure with a runaway sex drive.

I've added my two cents, by suggesting Sylvie as a Christ figure.

Alejandro Chavez Zavala was chiding and forgiving as the pageant's Christ figure.

I don't think there's any doubt that he was both a Christ figure and an ill man.