Sentence examples for object of cult from inspiring English sources

This part of Umbria is the home of the Sagrantino grape, object of cult veneration among connoisseurs.

The novel that achieves commercial publication but whose limited appeal precludes large financial success can frequently become the object of cult adulation.

As they struggle to adapt to freer markets, some East Europeans are embracing the unorthodox ideas of Henry George, an American economist who lived from 1839 to 1897.Mr George is probably the only tax theorist in history whose beliefs have become an object of cult devotion.

The Broadway run lasted for 16 previews and 5 regular performances, a record financial loss at the time, and closed without a cast recording ever made — a decision that only intensified the show's reputation as an elusive object of cult fascination.

"Chuck" If this show's arrival on Netflix makes it more than an object of cult worship, that will be a very groovy thing indeed.

Slate Dana Stevens felt that the film was "a gift to those of us who loved the original series, that brainy, wonky, idealistic body of work that aired to almost no commercial success between 1966 69 and has since become a science fiction archetype and object of cult adoration".

The lucky bands had hits, and the others became objects of cult adoration that has simmered for 20 years while other styles ruled the pop mainstream (and still do).

Filmmakers and films ignored in their own country can become the objects of cult adoration in another, producing perplexed reactions in their native country.

Dwarf Fortress is barely a blip on the mainstream radar, but it's an object of intense cult adoration.

After his death, An Lushan became the object of a cult on the northeastern frontier among the non-Chinese soldiers who constituted the bulk of the army and whose aspirations he symbolized.

But on the whole, his is a story of surviving dismissal as a crackpot only to become the object of a cult following - at first among artists and later among the disaffected youth of the 1960's.