Sentence examples for savior figure from inspiring English sources

In each, a savior figure has arisen.

Worst yet, there's still no sign of Steve Nash whose importance has grown from "a nice luxury for the Lakers to have" to "savior figure" during his absence.

But Raphah (the name is from the Hebrew for "healer"), and the two teenagers who join up with him, Thomas and Kate, defeat Demurral through prayer and the intervention of a savior figure named Riathamus (a Latinizing of a fifth-century British word meaning king of kings).

If he were to run for president, he could easily end up proving a kind of Fred Thompson-Rudy Giuliani hybrid — a late-entering Northeastern moderate savior figure who never figures out how to campaign effectively and ends up being consigned to a spoiler role.

Both Mount Wutai and Mount Emei accommodate a larger and more diverse number of temples, and are iconographically less committed to a single savior figure.

Researchers have documented how Macintosh users bear an eerie resemblance to a religious cult: a tight-knit network of emotionally committed adherents, faith in a "savior" figure (Steve Jobs), and a generalized hostility toward an external "evil" (Microsoft, IBM, etc).

The outside world often forgets that the inland west is even there, leading some to turn to savior figures – such as the Bundys – who offer simplistic and bizarre solutions to entrenched problems.

In contrast, the list for the 普陀洛迦新志 includes no other savior figures apart from Avalokiteśvara.

Assassinated on Good Friday, he was a martyr, a Christ figure, a suffering savior of the nation and, like the biblical Abraham, a father of his people.

Over the course of her life, Yeesha takes on many roles, eventually assuming the aspect of a prophesized D'ni savior-figure known as "The Grower".

A headline in one South Korean newspaper proclaimed, "Brian Orser is the new savior of figure skating and of Yu-na".