Word: latter-day
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...think that what we’ve got here is a kind of latter-day Renaissance man,” he said. “But I don’t mean to suggest that it’s completely unique. If you look at the Harvard undergraduate student body, there are many people who are astonishingly good at several things, and I think he’s that kind of person...
...Testament in the book. In person, Carlson reflects that Burns sounded a lot like Winston Churchill—or was that Abraham Lincoln at Gettysburg? Newsweek reporter Scott Johnson’s recollection of being shot at makes him, in Carlson’s words, something like a latter-day Stephen Crane. An Al Jazeera correspondent with a fastidious dedication to fairness is, somewhat jarringly, just like Felix Unger of “The Odd Couple...
Towering over the rest of the album, though, is the latter-day Johnny Cash rendition of “A Satisfied Mind.” The song’s gravelly sincerity may seem a little out of place among the ironic kitsch of the rest of the album, but let’s not forget that Cash shot a man in Reno just to watch him die long before the Bride even knew the meaning of the word “dismemberment...
Ever since a bitter debate over stem-cell research erupted in the summer of 2001, the mainstream press has tended to frame the controversy as a latter-day Scopes Trial—a conflict between religious zealots on one side and proponents of scientific rationalism on the other. And, to be sure, many people’s opposition to such research is an understandable function of their faith. Yet while the media are loath to acknowledge it, there is also a very solid case against stem-cell research based not in religiosity, but in logic and simple moral reasoning...
...most of the Church worldwide, John Paul II is venerated not simply for his evangelism and his interventions in the political world, but as the latter-day equivalent of an Old Testament prophet, standing as a bulwark and beacon against those aspects of Western culture deemed both ungodly and death-oriented. For them, John Paul II is a contemporary Catholic philosopher without peer, capable, at times, of almost Christ-like behavior (such as the forgiveness of his would-be assassin) and driven by an evangelical passion recalling the great wanderings of the Apostle Paul...