What's the difference between futurist and soothsayer?

Futurist


Definition:

  • (n.) One whose chief interests are in what is to come; one who anxiously, eagerly, or confidently looks forward to the future; an expectant.
  • (n.) One who believes or maintains that the fulfillment of the prophecies of the Bible is to be in the future.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Lord Freud revealed his futuristic vision of how people could soon claim benefits, suggesting ultimately claimants might take advantage of the development of internet eye-glasses by Google – which allows users to surf the internet on the lens of a pair of glasses, using eye movement to navigate the web and make benefits claims.
  • (2) Doubles from £82 Royal Jardins Boutique Hotel Two blocks from the grandiose, futuristic sweep of Paulista Avenue, South America's Broadway, and right by its shady Triannon park, this is a hotel with all the cream tones, clever lighting and marble lobby that say "posh".
  • (3) "Consumers are beginning to realise that this technology isn't an outlandish, futurist concept coming to life from The Jetsons but in fact can be used efficiently and effectively to solve everyday problems," says Alex Hawkinson, CEO of home automation company SmartThings.
  • (4) She's a symbol of revolt, and freedom, and hope … a futuristic Joan of Arc."
  • (5) Until I can strap myself to a big drone like some sort of hipster Icarus, the disappointed futurist thinks, I will wobble about on a two-wheeled board and pretend it is not in contact with the ground.
  • (6) Also, Doc Brown's inventions changed 1985 and made it much more futuristic when Marty finally got back.
  • (7) "The ideal city is not one with gated communities, security cameras, a futuristic scene from Blade Runner , dark and dramatic, with profound unhappiness … We need to at least build a city where happiness is possible and where public space is really for everybody."
  • (8) I'm not a futurist kind of person, but I would expect over time that it's just going to be real common."
  • (9) *** I took off my futuristic yellow pants and my Rush club shirt and stepped into the shower.
  • (10) Unfathomable, futuristic madness: that's what made me want to visit Japan.
  • (11) It’s an eerie setting in many ways, a limitless vista of futuristic visions and broken dreams, of soaring ambition and once-modern flying machines brought sadly back down to earth.
  • (12) This is the world of titanium or cobalt-chromium joint designs, bone screws and plates, orthotic limbs, supports and wheelchairs, and futuristic ideas such as miniature video cameras for artificial eyes.
  • (13) I had no idea what I was looking at: the one thing I did know was that this unfathomable futuristic madness was precisely the sort of thing I'd come to Japan to see.
  • (14) A futuristic sci-fi apparently: "An epic human story, set in a futuristic world without humanity."
  • (15) They don't align themselves with the thinkers, they align themselves with marketing, advertising, futurist crowd who are interested in ideas for the sake of ideas.
  • (16) I've written a detective series myself, set in an imaginary, and slightly futuristic, Chinese city.
  • (17) With a hint of Tom Cruise in Minority Report, this instinctive, ­futuristic control system allows users to tailor their screen (even the size of the keyboard) and move from function to function effortlessly and with style.
  • (18) Some old, some current, and some futuristic techniques, including a few now operative but largely experimental, are mentioned, as is a concluding opinion of the minimum clinical routine providing the "best" information of the edema state.
  • (19) Those long enough in the tooth will remember that the Standard's former owner, Associated Newspapers , made a financially disastrous foray into TV back in the mid-1990s with the launch and closure of Channel One, a cable station it then futuristically billed as its "electronic newspaper" for the capital.
  • (20) In 2001 the retro-futurist Discovery revived appreciation for the kind of glossy soft-rock and sentimental 80s pop that most bands deemed too cheesy. "

Soothsayer


Definition:

  • (n.) One who foretells events by the art of soothsaying; a prognosticator.
  • (n.) A mantis.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) There are bad days, increasingly so for them, but then there are days like this that break new boundaries of cataclysmic play and make those of us who predicted a close series seem like end-of-the-pier charlatan soothsayers.
  • (2) Variations in the strength of recovery in different world regions led advertising industry soothsayer Sir Martin Sorrell to grasp for ever stranger soundbites, with the idea of a "LuVVy"-shaped global recovery his most elaborate effort.
  • (3) Soothsayer or not, he never imagined the pink pound would become legal tender.
  • (4) But analysts such as Silver, a man dubbed an oracle , a soothsayer and a savant have an interest in continuing to share these predictions.
  • (5) Thai authorities confirmed on Monday that a colonel in the military was also being investigated in the same inquiry as the soothsayer, but he had absconded.
  • (6) He thinks we shouldn't get on with cutting waste this year … I don't see him as some economic soothsayer, frankly."
  • (7) The actor and writer Carrie Fisher has many talents but soothsaying appears not to be among them.
  • (8) She says: "The soothsayers and tea-leaves readers and the so-called experts can look at coalitions, but our job is to make sure we are offering a big choice for a majority government."
  • (9) And then when they heard that the crowd had arrived, like a carnival with every malcontent and half-crazed soothsayer following in its wake, Martha went out into the streets to announce her brother's death to my son.
  • (10) Iain Duncan Smith dismissed “another doom-and-gloom scenario” from an organisation “that simply hasn’t got anything right”; his fellow pro-Brexit MP Jacob Rees-Mogg said the OBR had made “lunatic assumptions” and that “experts, soothsayers, astrologers are all in much the same category”.
  • (11) Thai authorities said Suriyan Sucharitpolwong, better known by his soothsayer name Mor Yong, died of a blood infection on Saturday evening, hours after he was found unconscious in his cell at a Bangkok army barracks.
  • (12) The so-called “evil cult” has been wreaking havoc countrywide, if state media reports are to be believed – distributing leaflets, soothsaying into megaphones, attacking police stations and extorting “donations” from gullible peasants.
  • (13) But just as the soothsayers who cook up future prospects from experience of the recent past had got used to peering back into gloom, reality overtook them again, and all the adjustments are now in the other direction.
  • (14) Google in particular preoccupies advertising's economic soothsayer.
  • (15) On the evidence of the first 100 days, that’s a question beyond the most talented soothsayer, but as the days pass, maybe word will emerge of a plan.
  • (16) Experts, soothsayers, astrologers are all in much the same category.” This is classic Rees-Mogg.
  • (17) Set in the 1920s, it stars Colin Firth as a magician who is sent to France to debunk the practices of Emma Stone's beguiling spiritualist – but the accuracy of her soothsaying and her impressive trickery have his cynicism challenged.
  • (18) On stage he looks nothing like the laconic soothsayer of a few hours ago; now he's every bit the magnetic frontman, pulling messianic poses with arms outstretched and head flung back.
  • (19) Turns out the soothsayers were mistaken: the Sun isn't dying, it's expanding.

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