However, his fame and personality inspired a large and widely dispersed following.
His genius and his charismatic personality inspired cult-like devotion from legions of admirers.
The bar has been cited as evidence of a cult of personality inspired by Mr. Putin.
Ferguson's remarkable personality inspired his players to raise their game.
His life and personality inspired a 1995 novel, "They Forged the Signature of God," by Viriato Sención, which drew on inside information and offended Mr. Balaguer.
Whether or not this was intended, it called to mind Berio's wife, the singer Cathy Berberian, whose lively voice and personality inspired perhaps the greatest of his "Sequenzas" — No. III, for female voice — funny, sexy and altogether captivating.
Wagner's musical genius and charismatic personality inspired cult-like devotion from his admirers, but his anti-Semitism and other character flaws made him many enemies as well, and he is still controversial today.
His later thought in particular also influenced theoretical approaches in many related fields (including theology, psychology, and literary studies), and his unconventional lifestyle and mesmerizing personality inspired artists, novelists, poets, musicians, and filmmakers, among others.
Mrs. Baker, 67, of Lexington, who is black, said Monday that she liked the health care plan and greater experience of Mrs. Clinton, of New York, but that she was also inspired by the personality of Mr. Obama, of Illinois.
The cult of personality inspired by "Bloody Sam" now threatens to overwhelm the films themselves — a shame, since there is much to be rediscovered in Peckinpah's work, and particularly in those movies that don't necessarily conform to the sanguinary image: films like "Ride the High Country" (1962), "The Ballad of Cable Hogue" (1970), "Junior Bonner" (1972) and the 1966 television drama "Noon Wine".
