The chief god of the Norse, a one-eyed doomster named Odin, ate nothing and subsisted entirely on the mead that flowed from the teats of his goat, Heidrun. |
Mr Rashid, a Lahore-based journalist, has made a career as a professional doomster, foreseeing worsening gloom for two countries he cares about greatly and explaining how that threatens the rest of the world. |
I am not a soothsayer, nor am I a doomster, but there is a crisis looming like dark clouds over the horizon. |
Clearly, those 1960s doomster reports not only were alarmist, but wrong. |
When a doomster's roof leaks, for example, does he shun the services of the roofer who can repair the roof for less than it would cost the doomster to fix the roof himself? |
A figure more terrible than any that had yet appeared came forward, and prepared to act the part of doomster. |