There was a messianic quality to it", Entertainment Weekly editor Steve Daly commented.

The messianic qualities of Hadlo's "visions" frightened him, and he was afraid that reason might desert his friend and teacher.

The loss of the election on Feb. 25 tarnished the messianic quality of the effort in Nicaragua.

By virtue of their messianic quality, these ideologies proved powerfully alluring and produced equally powerful images.

During his audition, he tried out the test reading several ways, including a style that had a "messianic quality".

You may think her program willfully naïve and grandiose, but it does help to explain the curiously messianic quality of her art.

But on this Sunday, even Tiger - said to have messianic qualities by his father - would have found it hard to compete with "Jesus" in CBS's eye.

His art, at its most moving, achieves its messianic quality by virtue of this balancing principle.

Like other millionaires who spend fortunes to gain elective office, Neumann is possessed of a certain messianic quality that precludes easy compromise, and keeps him focused obsessively on questions of debt.

Articles about him often spoke of his "saintly" and even "messianic" qualities.