1.   All I had was my grandmother, who was a gospel preacher.

2.   He was a gospel preacher answered by tambourine-shaking backup singers.

3.   His robust baritone rose and rasped with the cadences of a gospel preacher, and he made even quick asides sound like crucial tidings.

4.   Like a gospel preacher, he took it for granted that his audience shared all his best impulses.

5.   They are not those of some great gospel preacher or famous psychologist.

6.   When he was finished, McKinley took the microphone and acted at times much like a gospel preacher promoting a fight that badly needs help at the box office.