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“Like a good millennialist cult, ‘The Leftovers’ grasps an outlandish idea with absolute emotional commitment: The performances in this final run are spectacular throughout,” James Poniewozik wrote in The Times.

From New York Times • Apr. 16, 2017

Like a good millennialist cult, “The Leftovers” grasps an outlandish idea with absolute emotional commitment: The performances in this final run are spectacular throughout, but especially Ms. Coon’s and Mr. Theroux’s.

From New York Times • Apr. 13, 2017

Though weapons aren’t omnipresent, there is a paramilitary, perhaps millennialist feel to the knights’ drab earth-tone garments and their undercurrent of wariness.

From New York Times • Mar. 29, 2015

Hundreds of pages of millennialist writings, including transcripts of videotapes and the full text of a book called Heaven's Gate, lay out the cult's history and cosmology.

From Time Magazine Archive

The most general teaching of the millennialist is that there will be a personal reign of Christ upon this earth of a thousand years after his second coming.

From The Gospel Day Or, the Light of Christianity by Orr, Charles Ebert