Sentence examples for yea-sayer from inspiring English sources

Through all the tension and human tribulation, Mr Crouch is a passionate yea-sayer.

These works aroused much controversy, as did the students' opera Der Jasager (1930; "The Yea-Sayer," with Brecht) and the cantata Der Lindberghflug (1928; "Lindbergh's Flight," with Brecht and Hindemith).

No doubt the Great Nay-sayer - he was also, of course, the Great Yea-sayer - would have approved of The Human Touch, Michael Frayn's gigantic jeu d'esprit, if for nothing else than the insouciance with which it denies most of the so-called truths that common sense holds to be self-evident.

"We will have the yea-sayers and the nay-sayers, and it's another illustration of the importance of who sits on which court".

There were naysayers too, or rather yea-sayers, who leapt to the defence of Downton, knitwear and, most vociferously, a certain elfin singer-songwriter.

The yea-sayers had high income and low frequency in using public transit.

Among the yea-sayers, opinion divided between those who said preferences were morally permissible and those who said they were not.

The statute governing urban redevelopment requires that 70% of a community approve a relocation project; if the developer wins that endorsement, it can evict stragglers, provided that it gives them (and the yea-sayers) replacement housing.

Instead, it lost its way to war entrepreneurs, careerists and yea-sayers.

When we're overly controlling of others, our decision-making suffers--because we drive away those who disagree with us and thus surround ourselves with only those who don't mind being controlled: the "yea-sayers".

There will be the yea- and nay-sayers in any debate, and China's economy provokes plenty of both.