Word: worshiper
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bleating, squawking, cooing. At the back of the house, in a white-tiled, surgically clean room, sits an old woman in a white dress. She will remain there for an entire week, eating and resting and praying. The remainder of her initiation into the priesthood of Santeria -- literally, "saint worship" -- will take an entire year, during which she must wear only white, remain celibate and eat only prescribed foods...
...synthetic pantheist, neopagan, nature- love and New Age groups that were the rage early in the 21st century. The triumph of feminist religion caused many Christians and Jews to shun references to God in personal terms (no more Lord or Heavenly Father). This in turn strengthened the groups that worship a mysterious nature-force or seek to deify the self. Today's variegated religious revival is partly the result of a need for effective moral commitment to protecting the environment...
...incitements to virtue in the comfort and pleasantness you feel in its exercise"? Even George Washington must shudder in his sleep to hear the constant emphasis on "Judeo-Christian values." It was he who wrote, "We have abundant reason to rejoice that in this Land . . . every person may here worship God according to the dictates of his own heart...
...stream-of- consciousness style of monologue material. One entire show last season was set in a parking garage, as Jerry and his friends searched for their car. In another, Jerry got friendly with ex-New York Mets star Keith Hernandez; the show spun a hilarious comic essay on hero worship and male bonding. "He wants me to help him move!" cries Jerry after one phone call. "I said yes, but I don't feel right about it. I mean, I hardly know...
Only one crucial similarity remains. The food tastes the same. The Coke tastes like Coke, a milkshake tastes like a milkshake. And the hamburger topped with ketchup, mustard and pickle, tastes like, well, a hamburger. So know I know why I, too, worship the glaring yellow "M," the glorious products of a capitalist society. It's because of the food...