Sentence examples for the anointed one from inspiring English sources

For almost a century, Hollywood has thrived on the concept of the anointed one -- the gorgeous, talented, lovable unknown who has been hand-picked by the fates to be "the next big thing".

Now the dynasty needs a new face; Bindi is the anointed one.

Natural, too, that Lleyton Hewitt who plays David Nalbandian this afternoon, should be the anointed one.

And as per the last few weeks, indeed just about all season, the anointed one has been Sydney Roosters.

"You really have to gear yourself up for battle in writing about a living author, unless you're the pet, the anointed one," Rollyson said.

During his lifetime his disciples may have begun to think of him as the Messiah ("Christ" in Greek translation), the anointed one who would restore the fortunes of Israel.

Insurers, for example, will no longer wait years to hear if they are among the anointed ones.

Indie fans designate themselves as the anointed ones, who, applying their puritan principles of authenticity, can recognise true music in contrast to false idolatry.

And that's where on the seventh floor members of the theater press are assigned places at long tables to which press agents were leading this year's Tony nominees for brief and amiable chats and, of course congratulations--and for which the anointed ones remain smiling and camera-ready.

And if the organizers had laughed me out of the room for my inability to see the value of "exposure" to the anointed ones, I would have saved myself a lot of expense and hard labor (and self-recrimination) for what amounted to a big waste of time.

I can't speak for those anointed ones, those household names, those demigods; my experience is rather in the other camp, with the thousands of midlist writers whom the reading public may be dimly, subliminally aware of — or not.