(1) 6.15pm BST Obama says the GOP doomsaying has proven hollow: Most Republicans have made a whole bunch of predictions that haven't come true.
(2) The drone from traffic on the parallel Quai des Celestins, higher up the river bank, suggests traffic there is moving along at a respectable pace – confounding those doomsayers who suggested the controversial scheme to pedestrianise two miles of city centre highway would bring neighbouring roads to a standstill.
(3) The unions came to Westminster today, like doomsayers waiting for the rest of the country to catch up.
(4) Draghi ridiculed the doomsayers predicting that hyperinflation would eventually result from QE, saying that hawks had repeatedly warned about inflation taking off each time the ECB had cut interest rates – yet inflation remained very low.
(5) Nor is it disintegrating, as the doomsayers love to repeat.
(6) Ferrari was hopeful about the potential to save the Great Barrier Reef, she said, despite the doomsaying about its prospects.
(7) After six years as editor of the red-top she delivered a passionate defence of tabloids while railing against industry doomsayers at the Cudlipp Lecture at the London College of Communication.
(8) Miliband will say that their success has proved how "doomsayers", from Oswald Moseley to the BNP, have completely misjudged Britain.
(9) He will say: "We've had our fair share of doomsayers in Britain over the years, from Oswald Moseley in the 1930s, to Enoch Powell in the 1960s, to Nick Griffin today, who said it wasn't possible for us to get along.
(10) Should any of this doomsaying concern us, particularly in a credit-crunched world?
(11) Yet there are still reasons to hope that 2017, like 2016, will not turn out as bad as the doomsayers predict.
(12) Focus DIY gave doomsayers more reason to be gloomy after it embarked on a vital restructuring to stave off its collapse.
(13) Defying all the doomsayers who said a vote to leave could prompt a recession, consumers carried on spending and businesses continued to expand .
(14) Nigeria has proved the doomsayers wrong before, but the odds are worsening.
(15) Right-wing conservatives like Jacob Rees-Mogg joined in, saying that because of the obsession of "the doomsayers of the quasi-religious Green movement" poor people "may die because they can't afford fuel".
(16) Those glum doomsayers, prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu , defence chief Ehud Barak, and president Shimon Peres , are frantically ringing alarm bells like a trio of demented churchwardens.
(17) But, against the doomsayers, an almost supernatural peace and good will reigned.
(18) The long-awaited election in the continent’s biggest democracy, with 60 million potential voters, did not descend into the chaos or violence that the doomsayers had predicted, but it was hardly plain sailing.
(19) He said industry doomsayers were "misguided cynics".
(20) Edwards – a high profile City strategist renowned as a market doomsayer – said the scheme was artificially propping up the market and preventing prices correcting to affordable levels.
Millenarian
Definition:
(a.) Consisting of a thousand years; of or pertaining to the millennium, or to the Millenarians.
(n.) One who believes that Christ will personally reign on earth a thousand years; a Chiliast.
Example Sentences:
(1) His many books, which included a biography of Oliver Cromwell and a celebration of the radical millenarian groups of the period called The World Turned Upside Down, were widely read.
(2) He said the group was the "clearest case of far-left millenarianism which I have encountered".
(3) Rayner's report made it clear the group had elements of a cult, calling it the "clearest case of far-left millenarianism which I have encountered".
(4) In 1959 he published his first major work, Primitive Rebels, a strikingly original account, particularly for those times, of southern European rural secret societies and millenarian cultures (he was still writing about the subject as recently as 2011).
(5) In his analysis of Breivik's document, Doug Sanders points to the influence of "Eurabian" writers such as Bawer, Mark Steyn, Melanie Phillips and Robert Spencer in agitating for a millenarian vision of a civilisation under attack.
(6) His best known study, The Pursuit of the Millennium: Revolutionary Millenarians and Mystical Anarchists of the Middle Ages (1957), demonstrated convincingly that the totalitarian ideologies of the 20th century, chiefly Marxism and nazism, shared a "common stock of European social mythology" with apocalyptic medieval movements such as the Flagellants and the Anabaptists.
(7) Primitive Rebels by Eric Hobsbawm (1959) Packed with bandits, mobs, anarchic millenarians and wandering journeymen, this delighted me as a student.
(8) Those who heard Hill deliver the lectures on which it is based - lectures delivered in a nervous, slightly stuttering voice - will always reserve a special place for his 1972 study of radical and millenarian ideas, The World Turned Upside Down.