the Resurrection
noun
in Christianity
1
: the event told about in the Bible in which Jesus Christ returned to life after his death
2
or the resurrection
: the event told about in the Bible in which dead people will be brought back to life before the day of final judgment
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But with ample clumsy exposition to provide a refresher, the resurrection of The Night Manager has gone from solidly entertaining to grippingly immediate practically overnight.
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Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 11 Jan. 2026
Chrissy, Fred, Patrick and the Others Even minor characters are fueling the resurrection discourse.
—Melissa Fleur Afshar, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Dec. 2025
Almqvist has come to believe that the resurrection of af Klint has also produced fantasies.
—Alice Gregory, New Yorker, 16 Nov. 2025
In the 1940s, at the Viking Press, Cowley initiated the resurrection of William Faulkner from oblivion, a project that put the writer on the syllabus in the ever-expanding postwar university, brought the rest of his work back into print, and surely helped win him the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature.
—Michael Gorra, The Atlantic, 4 Nov. 2025
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Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 11 Jan. 2026
Chrissy, Fred, Patrick and the Others Even minor characters are fueling the resurrection discourse.
—Melissa Fleur Afshar, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Dec. 2025
Almqvist has come to believe that the resurrection of af Klint has also produced fantasies.
—Alice Gregory, New Yorker, 16 Nov. 2025
In the 1940s, at the Viking Press, Cowley initiated the resurrection of William Faulkner from oblivion, a project that put the writer on the syllabus in the ever-expanding postwar university, brought the rest of his work back into print, and surely helped win him the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature.
—Michael Gorra, The Atlantic, 4 Nov. 2025
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