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

But Giles spoke in January like a prophet of doom, warning of a letdown if the Huskies didn’t start playing with more intensity.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 26, 2023

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