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revivalist

ree vahy vuh list

  • n  a preacher of the Christian gospel

  • Elmer Gantry, based on the Sinclair Lewis novel about a corrupt revivalist preacher.
  • Of the nine cultists he has appraised, Author Landau credits Frank Buchman with being "the most successful and shrewdest revivalist of our time.
  • Cosmopolitan, a successful and wealthy barrister, a fastidious dresser, alone and aloof, speaking mostly English, Jinnah dismissed his great rival as "that Hindu revivalist.
News & Articles

  • Hamilton grad’s band kicks off RiversEdge concert series
    David Shaw, a 2001 Hamilton High School graduate and lead singer for the New Orleans alternative rock band The Revivalists, said that he’s happy to kick off the summer concert series Thursday at the RiversEdge Amphitheatre.
    June 12, 2013 - The Hamilton Journal News
Quotes

  • Leonard Nimoy in CBS News
    These gentlemen are up there in a fervent, singsong, swaying presentation,Nimoy said. "It was like a revivalist meeting. The entire congregation had their eyes covered. But I was entranced by it."
  • Alistair Carmichael in Times Online
    The conference had "the air of a revivalist meeting", said Fred Mackintosh, of the Edinburgh South constituency party. "The strange rebirth of Liberal England."
  • James Cotton in Jerusalem Post
    I played with them all,says Cotton. "I played with black and white artists like Janis Joplin, Led Zeppelin, Steve Miller, BB King, The Grateful Dead and Santana. Alexis Korner [British blues revivalist] stayed at my house for 10 days back...

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