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  • adverb In a messianic way.

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  • For those that wonder why Iran would invite its own obliteration by attacking the United Sates, understand that the apocalyptic, messianically driven mentality of their leadership views martyrdom as a reward and not a deterrent.

    Wonk Room » Veterans’ Charity Scammer Calls For Bombing Iran 2009

  • Unfortunately, preview audiences reportedly hated the ending, leading to a reshoot that recalled the conclusion of a previous adaptation, The Omega Man (1971), in which a dying Neville messianically bequeaths a cure for the plague to his female companion.

    MIND MELD: What Makes a Successful SciFi/Fantasy Book Adaptation? Why Do Some Fail? 2008

  • For those that wonder why Iran would invite its own obliteration by attacking the United Sates, understand that the apocalyptic, messianically driven mentality of their leadership views martyrdom as a reward and not a deterrent.

    The iron logic of our current nightmare 2009

  • For those that wonder why Iran would invite its own obliteration by attacking the United Sates, understand that the apocalyptic, messianically driven mentality of their leadership views martyrdom as a reward and not a deterrent.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

  • For those that wonder why Iran would invite its own obliteration by attacking the United Sates, understand that the apocalyptic, messianically driven mentality of their leadership views martyrdom as a reward and not a deterrent.

    The iron logic of our current nightmare 2009

  • These settlers simply do not recognize the right of the State of Israel and its elected officials to interfere with their messianically inspired rule in this settler state.

    Sharon and the Future of Palestine Siegman, Henry 2004

  • Since then, successive generations of messianically inclined Russian thinkers and writers have discovered compensating virtues in their country's anomalous development; but Western Europe has had far too many messiahs of its own to be impressed by the claims of Russian Christianity or Russian socialism to be the future inspiration for mankind.

    The Path of a Prophet Kelly, Aileen 1984

  • And, yet, if the Tory manifesto is more or less par for the course, although a bit too leftish in its message for the old party faithful (who wants riff-raff joining in the governance of these "sceptr'd isles"?), the Labour manifesto is decidedly, even feverishly and messianically so.

    The Guardian World News Jonathan Glancey 2010

  • And, yet, if the Tory manifesto is more or less par for the course, although a bit too leftish in its message for the old party faithful (who wants riff-raff joining in the governance of these "sceptr'd isles"?), the Labour manifesto is decidedly, even feverishly and messianically so.

    The Guardian World News Jonathan Glancey 2010

  • And thirsting for the power, influence and money to messianically change the world, always in his own image, and kill the autonomous individual human being through ignorance and distance.

    Superfluities Redux 2010

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