prophet of doom
Example Sentences
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"There will be 8.7 million new infections, 3.4 million additional Aids orphans. I don't want to sound like a prophet of doom, but I have a duty to give the facts as we see them."
From BBC • Feb. 14, 2025
This chaos is what the most superficial Davis readers, the ones who kept calling him a prophet of doom despite his protestations, will say that he nailed.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 26, 2022
Along with everyone else, the Coens had admired Thewlis’s performance as Johnny, the acerbic prophet of doom in Mike Leigh’s 1993 film Naked, in which he stalked the streets of London in an undertaker’s greatcoat.
From The Guardian • May 29, 2017
It’s safe to say the show wants us to believe that the prophet of doom known as Time turned William into a real piece of black-hatted work.
From Time • Nov. 30, 2016
He was no prophet of doom; perhaps he was even blind to the moral deterioration, the blight of ideals, growing more wasteful, every day, of the nation's best life.
From Men of the Bible; Some Lesser-Known Characters by Milligan, George
