Search: juggernaut
Why: On the commercial for Legally Blonde: The Musical, New York Magazine describes the show as "A feel-good juggernaut!"
Answer: n.
- Something, such as a belief or institution, that elicits blind and destructive devotion or to which people are ruthlessly sacrificed.
- An overwhelming, advancing force that crushes or seems to crush everything in its path: “It doesn't assume that people need necessarily remain passive when confronted by what appears to be the juggernaut of history” (Christopher Lehmann-Haupt).
The More You Know: Hindi jagannāth, title of Krishna, from Sanskrit jagannāthah, lord of the world:
- jagat, moving, the world (from earlier present participle of jigāti, he goes)
- + nāthah, lord (from nāthate, he helps, protects)
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