Word: prophetizer
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...faith. He came to it, he says, out of social resentment (the Sinclairs had come down in the world). Socialism was then in its quasi-religious phase, and he became one of its missionary preachers. It gave him fame and a million dollars from devout readers who devoured the prophet's politics and didn't care a damn about his prose...
...Prophet Without Honor. To many of his critics, France's towering, turbulent leader seems, as H. G. Wells once said, to be "an utterly sincere megalomaniac." Catholic Novelist François Mauriac wrote with greater insight: "He appears as though delegated by historic France to living France, in order that it should remember what a great nation it has been." In fact, De Gaulle has had a lifelong conviction that his mission is to lead France to new greatness. Hauteur and intransigence have always been weapons in that fight. For much of his life, he has been either...
...Romney won because he appeared to be a prophet at a time when Michigan desperately needed one. His victory was one of charisma, that indefinable quality of leadership, force and spiritual magnetism that defies pat explanations. The fact that he is a Mormon-and president of the Detroit Stake (district) of the Mormon church-had much to do with it. For devout Mormons count as cardinal principles of their religion individual responsibility and dedication to public service...
...large whitewashed studio in the London borough of Hammersmith works a wild-haired, chalk-faced old man who wryly likes to compare himself to the Prophet Elijah. "You have to pay for working alone for 40 years," Sculptor Leon Underwood says. "The ravens fed me; but since ravens do not have watches, they often came very irregularly." Today, at 71, Underwood does not have to depend so much on ravens. People have begun to buy his work, for when, after an eight-year hiatus, he finally consented to a one-man show in London two years ago, British critics raved...
...people of Babylon laughed and said unto Argaman the prophet: "What are you, a nut or something?" And they played the music louder...