preach doom and gloom

What some reports on his speech overlooked, too, was the note of optimism he struck, unlike those who would preach doom and gloom.

Mr. Cuomo challenged the traditional Republican assertion, voiced recently by President Bush, that Democrats who are complaining about the economy are preaching doom and gloom.

Friesen remarked, "when it comes to the future, the field tends to be dominated by those who preach doom and gloom... Kotkin provides a well-argued, well-researched and refreshingly calm perspective."

Agreed Stiffkey many environmentalists have got this message wrong in the past preaching doom and gloom as a way to inspire people to act but many are beginning to realise now that fear-mongering very rarely gets the outcome one wants.

Other political forces adopted more variable and opportunistic stances: they preached doom and gloom, and ruled out any possibility of an agreement being reached during the Spanish election campaign, turning this important international accord into an instrument of petty domestic politics. That was a serious mistake.