Quite quickly, Scotty became not just a trick but a bringer of tricks – an intermediary, a connection – as well as a participant.
So if you are a light-bringer, a consciousness shifter (which I believe I am, and maybe you are too), you are NOT the mainstream.
This declaration has a particular context: God, it is well understood, is a law-bringer and a society-maker, not a dispenser of personal favors in the name of holiness.
Hermes, for instance, was "full of tricks—a bringer of dreams".
Like John the Baptist, the PBS program heralded Watson as, quite possibly, the bringer of a new age.
But such is the state of our industry, particularly the London-based national media, that an applicant can very reasonably cite themselves as a bringer of diversity by being a non-graduate or coming from a council estate.
A bringer of stability or a murderous destroyer of liberty?
Sorkin certainly depicts Jobs as a bringer of change — but a bringer of change for the worse.
Composed in 1685, this work, which combines dance with song, celebrates Louis XIV as a bringer of peace and a champion of the arts.
He has, variously, presented Mr Modi as a bringer of good economic times, a Hindu strongman and a figure of humble caste.
