As an author, she kept her public image as a charismatic, mysterious old Baroness with an insightful third eye, and established herself as an inspiring figure in Danish culture, although shunning the mainstream.

Russell was a charismatic figure, but claimed no special revelation or vision for his teachings and no special authority on his own behalf.

Despite this reputation, and his wooden speaking style and shy demeanor, Ma is also considered a charismatic figure and is popular among women and youth.

Viewed as a charismatic and iconic figure of revolution, he is commonly referred to as " Africa's Che Guevara ".

A charismatic figure, she was championed by the modernist poet Ezra Pound, who was instrumental in building and furthering her career.

Buridan also seems to have had an unusual facility for attracting academic funding which suggests that he was indeed a charismatic figure.

The second son of Jamaica's Premier Norman Washington Manley and Jamaican artist Edna Manley, Michael Manley was a charismatic figure who became the leader of the Jamaican People's National Party a few months before his father's death in 1969.

This could occur, for example, where there is heavy reliance on a central charismatic figure in the organization, or where there is an evangelical belief in the organization ' values, or also in groups where a friendly climate is at the base of their identity ( avoidance of conflict ).

Peterson improved his public speaking abilities in the early 1980s, and projected the image of an active, charismatic figure when in office.

The president was a cheerful and charismatic figure that exhaled confidence.

Smith himself was considered a far less charismatic figure.

Omar Bongo, Africa's " little Big Man ", described as " a diminutive, dapper figure who conversed in flawless French, a charismatic figure surrounded by a personality cult ", was one of the last of the African " Big Man " rulers.

During the Great Depression in the 1930s, Powell, a handsome and charismatic figure, became a prominent civil rights leader in Harlem, New York.

Since its founding in 1991, it has been led by the charismatic and controversial figure Vladimir Zhirinovsky.

In the early 1980s however, Chicago's political life was transformed by the ascendancy of U. S. Representative Harold Washington, a noted orator and a charismatic figure who helped unite the city's African-American community.

Nixon's successor Stuart Lyon Smith proved unable to increase Liberal support, while new NDP leader Michael Cassidy lacked the support of the party establishment and could not measure up to Lewis's charismatic and dynamic figure.

The Mahendo ' sat political system is based on the concept of Personage, a charismatic figure with a lot of social credit ; a Personage's power is determined by the number of its followers, but a supporter can either weaken or strengthen its Personage, depending on whether its actions in its Personage's name prove to be beneficial or not.

Frisbee was a key figure in the Jesus movement and eyewitness accounts of his ministry documented in the 2007 Emmy-nominated film Frisbee: The Life and Death of a Hippie Preacher explain how Frisbee became the charismatic spark igniting the rise of Chuck Smith's Calvary Chapel and the Vineyard Movement, two worldwide denominations and among the largest evangelical denominations to emerge in the last thirty years.

He had a difficult job following Lewis, who was a charismatic and dynamic figure.

The term has come to be used figuratively to refer to the elevation of a dead leader ( often one who was assassinated and / or martyred ) to a kind of superhuman charismatic figure and an effective erasing of all faults and controversies which were connected with his name in life-for example, Abraham Lincoln in the US, Lenin in USSR, Yitzchak Rabin in Israel, or Kim Jong-il of North Korea.

Schreyer was a youthful and charismatic figure from the centrist wing of the NDP, and his party was able to win the support of many centre-left voters ( including those who had voted for Pierre Trudeau's federal Liberals the previous year ).

Gendo is also shown to be a rather charismatic figure during this time, moving several members of NERV staff ( notably all male ) to aid with the " pedaling for power " plan.

Tough, charismatic group leader Jack is usually the first to figure solutions to the mysteries.

He was a forceful and charismatic figure who picked up the nicknames " Marvelous Marv " and " Carvin ' Marvin ".

Some believed that Hague had been unlucky, although most considered him to be a talented orator and an intelligent statesman, he had come up against the charismatic Tony Blair in the pomp of his political career, and it was no surprise that little progress was made in reducing Labour's majority after a relatively smooth parliament.

Elizabeth is acknowledged as a charismatic performer and a dogged survivor, in an age when government was ramshackle and limited and when monarchs in neighbouring countries faced internal problems that jeopardised their thrones.

Researchers found that positive belief in faith healing was mainly a characteristic of conservative Christians, most especially those with charismatic experience.

Founded as a broad Islamist coalition in 1989 it was led by Abbassi Madani, and a charismatic radical young preacher, Ali Belhadj.

During the 1980s ( from 1982 to 1987 ,) the company was led by the charismatic John Harvey Jones.

He was also the first to categorize social authority into distinct forms, which he labelled as charismatic, traditional, and rational-legal.

Together with the charismatic Maria Malibran, she was considered the greatest deeper-voiced female singer of the nineteenth century.

According to existing sources, Mieszko I was a wise politician, a talented military leader and charismatic ruler.

Like his predecessor, Farrakhan was a dynamic, charismatic leader and a powerful speaker with the ability to appeal to the African-American masses.

However, he was a charismatic leader whose Socialist domestic programs and nationalist foreign policy appealed to the rural and urban constituencies who were largely ignored by the oligarchy.

While even folkloric vampires of the Balkans and Eastern Europe had a wide range of appearance ranging from nearly human to bloated rotting corpses, it was interpretation of the vampire by the Christian Church and the success of vampire literature, namely John Polidori's 1819 novella The Vampyre that established the archetype of charismatic and sophisticated vampire ; it is arguably the most influential vampire work of the early 19th century, inspiring such works as Varney the Vampire and eventually Dracula.

King was not charismatic and did not have a large personal following.

It has been characterized as a religion, a cult, a charismatic movement, a " sect ", " plastic export Hinduism ", a progressive millennialism organization and a " multinational, capitalist, Vedantic Export Religion " in books and the mainstream press, with concerns that the movement was being run to promote the Maharishi's personal interests.

Ann herself was a powerful preacher and charismatic personality, travelling around the colonies, particularly in New England, preaching her gospel views.

In 1992 Fortuyn wrote " Aan het volk van Nederland " ( To the people of the Netherlands ), declaring he was the successor to the charismatic but controversial 18th-century Dutch politician Joan van der Capellen tot den Pol.

His charismatic confidence had faded, and when he left the prison gates, he was met by an angry crowd.

This was partly due to their charismatic leader Petra Kelly, a German who was of interest to the American media because she had an American step-father.

The charismatic de Montfort and his forces had captured most of southeastern England by 1263, and at the Battle of Lewes on 14 May 1264, Henry was defeated and taken prisoner by de Montfort's army.

But it was Lewis ' " brilliance and charismatic appeal " which was firmly associated with Plaid Genedlaethol Cymru in the 1930s.

Nicholas Tucker described the early Harry Potter books as looking back to Victorian and Edwardian children's stories: Hogwarts was an old-style boarding school in which the teachers addressed pupils formally by their surnames and were most concerned with the reputations of the houses with which they were associated ; characters ' personalities were plainly shown by their appearances, starting with the Dursleys ; evil or malicious characters were to be crushed rather than reformed, including Filch's cat Mrs Norris ; and the hero, a mistreated orphan who found his true place in life, was charismatic and good at sports, but considerate and protective towards the weak.

Voorhoeve was replaced by the charismatic intellectual Frits Bolkestein.