sacred monster

American  

noun

1. a celebrity whose eccentricities or indiscretions are easily forgiven by admirers.

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Etymology

Origin of sacred monster

1980–85; translation of French monstre sacré

Example Sentences

As Monica, the intrepidly impish O’Hara is an almost sacred monster.

From Los Angeles Times

Is he a sacred monster, or just a monster?

From New York Times

Speaking of feet, the subject is Rudolf Nureyev, a dancer to conjure with, a superstar/sacred monster who changed the very nature of ballet, the first major Soviet artist to defect to the West and a man who had, a biographer wrote, “an innate sense that borders were meant to be crossed.”

From Los Angeles Times

Starring an uncompromising Dustin Hoffman as a self-important sacred monster father and Ben Stiller and Adam Sandler as the adult sons still struggling with his influence, “Meyerowitz” is graced with Baumbach’s acute observations of human behavior.

From Los Angeles Times

It’s like Cocteau about Piaf: the sacred monster.

From Los Angeles Times