Sentence examples for a preacher at from inspiring English sources

The pragmatic Donaldo, whose father was a preacher, at first dismisses his excuses as so much cant.

King was then 26, and a preacher at the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, while Mr Belafonte was 28 and newly crowned "America's Negro matinée idol".

At the same time, he was also a lecturer in philosophy and a preacher at St. Nicholas Churchh, and the following year he received a doctorate in theology.

In many ways, they found precisely what they wanted: John Hurston became a preacher at the Zion Hope Baptist Church and served three terms as mayor.

At the close of her set, she grabbed the mike and walked up and down the center aisle like a preacher at a revival meeting, singing, cigarette in hand, Black Sabbath's "Black Sabbath".

Sheikh Ibrahim Omar, a preacher at the Masjid Musa mosque which has alleged links to the Somali al-Shabaab group, was killed with three companions when the car he was in was shot at by unknown assailants on Thursday night.

Ms. Reeves can belt out the blues with the best of them, getting a raspy, snarling sound at will and singing with the command of a Baptist preacher at a revival meeting.The concert was a huge success as Ms. Reeves once again proved she is the premier female jazz vocalist of her generation.

I had this experience on a recent Sunday night, after I was a guest preacher at a large Presbyterian church not far from my home.

After an introduction of rumbling gospel-blues piano chords, Ms. Buckley declaims the lyrics like a country preacher at a burial.

In arguing that good wine is central to culture, Mr. Theise sometimes sounds like a preacher, and at other times a philosopher.

Mr. Noyes, a preacher educated at Dartmouth and Yale, believed in the idea of Perfectionism, making its rounds at that time in religious circles, that the Messiah's second coming occurred when the Temple of Jerusalem fell in 70 A.D. Thus, everything that came after on earth was technically heaven.