cultishness

When a cult starts up, the cultishness of its members is their defining characteristic.

Compact discs are, in fact, a primary instance of preprogrammed cultishness.

That cultishness took more substantive form in the mid-1980's, after punk flamed out.

We know what your own cultishness amounts to."

"No, Duffey, I don't believe he's into the cultishness for the money.

Celebrity is a strange zone to wander into; it causes all sorts of blindness and behavior that verges on cultishness.

The creepy cultishness of Wright's circle.

To look down breeds cultishness.

Bachelard asserts that the group had "elements of cultishness", but had recently reduced its standards of stringency.

If groups like U2 don't get the opportunity, through prejudice, complacency, cultishness, to move into view, the vibrancy and challenge of recent pop will steadily deteriorate.

For much of the past 54 years, following the Rangers has been an expression of loyalty bordering on cultishness that has made their fans feel exclusive.

The Irish and Americans and Africans are respectable, philosophical and industrial parties, but the cultishness is something beyond.

So while Microsoft's permanent employees are renowned for their corporate cultishness, Microsoft permatemps are almost unparalleled in their rancour.

Why expend energy unearthing the potentially cultish properties of a technological novelty when its cultishness has been deliberately programmed into it by its sly devisers?

Much of the visual heat is traceable to a final bit of blatant fakeness: garish, painted-on wide-open eyes that create an air of manic, slightly Mycenaen cultishness.

Was there a sundered-off Augustine who turned ever more Manichean, who refined more and more his arts of false logic and fornication, who howled against reason, who joined the cultishness of the crowd?

But not Ms. Scher, who was "put off by the idea of making so much money, by the insane hours, the New York life and the cultishness of it" and whose career goals included "wanting to do something I could believe in."

The problem is that they seem to be pushing it in about 10 different directions at once, and in the process they lose sight of the basic requirements of visual clarity, narrative momentum and emotional impact, without which this kind of thing quickly lapses into cultishness or mythomaniacal pretension.