Sentence examples for get anointed from inspiring English sources

Nobody's going to get anointed this time.

That is an ever-present question in Silicon Valley during any lull in the flow of shining private companies that get anointed as public companies.

After all, I've been a professional journalist for decades - yet I never took a course in it, received a licence for it or got anointed on high.

First and foremost there is a serious issue of who gets anointed.

When a young Mormon gets inducted into the temple, he or she gets "anointed" while wearing a sheet with a hole in the top.

The story involved Rhoda's sister, Brenda, who, despite being congenitally non-competitive, is goaded into entering a contest at the bank she works at, the winner of which gets anointed, "The Bank Girl".

And if you're wondering to yourself, "Hey, is this some attempt to get himself anointed as the third-party banner-waver," worry no more.

The winners in the fight-that-wasn't were the people who managed to get themselves anointed by the mainstream media--or "corporate media" as some call them--as reformers.

For many people it's the highlight of the sporting year – the moment when the public gets to anoint its No 1, and the BBC reasserts itself as the historic home of sport in spite of having lost the rights to so many of the big events.

It's not something that's easy every day, for sure, especially when you get kind of anointed at a young age, 17, 18.  It's something you roll with.

Chicken Loudest: Mad Money's Jim Kramer and the New York Times' Tom Friedman are contenders for top town criers, but every neighborhood will have one who gets to be anointed as the man who called the crisis loudest.