Sentences with phrase «as a charlatan»

The unreflective believer may dismiss Feuerbach as a charlatan who trivializes religion.

Sound of My Voice (Unrated) Mind control drama about an investigative journalist (Christopher Denham) who, with the help of his girlfriend (Nicole Vicius), infiltrates a religious cult only to fall under the spell of the charismatic leader (Brit Marling) he had hoped to expose as a charlatan.

«Hailed as a shaman or dismissed as a charlatan for a quarter of a century, Damien Hirst has rarely been far from the cultural spotlight, or long absent from the bold type of tabloid outrage.

The fact that Bitcoin possesses this property is absolutely astounding, and it is not something that can be installed like an app, as the charlatans behind ICOs and altcoins seem to suggest.

Yusupov never regarded Rasputin as a charlatan.

If a recognized cult leader was to publicly proclaim that an individual or group was not a member of the cult they claimed, I would pay attention, but I do not expect this to happen much as the charlatans leading the cults know that it is bad for the believer business overall when there is Infighting.

The storm of accusations following his death convinced Pollak that that there was an interesting story beneath the surface, and before long he was embarked on a project of discovery that ultimately led to this definitive exposure of Bettelheim as a charlatan whose life was based on falsehood and self - aggrandizement.

He described such prophets as charlatans, reminding them that Ghana is a democratic state and not a theocratic one.

He has described prophets who engage in such acts as charlatans who need psychiatric treatment.

Perhaps the discomfort and inconvenience put him off, but by later proclaiming this non-existent service Alan risked exposure as a charlatan.

It further expressed shock at the orchestrated campaign aimed at dragging the name of the President's Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, a thoroughbred professional, in the mud by a group it described as charlatans who have taken their deceit of being professional journalists too far.

In 2011, Dutch social psychologist Diederik Stapel was revealed as a charlatan who had published dozens of fraudulent scientific papers.

By the 1960s it had a rep as a charlatan's medicine, with great help from a popular fellow known as «Dr. Feelgood,» who was adding B12 to amphetamines.

That comes just three years after Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard was depicted unfavorably in Paul Thomas Anderson's dramatic feature, «The Master,» with Phillip Seymour Hoffman playing the bombastic, charismatic leader — who some saw as a charlatan.

PS Alice, Radio National wasn't «exposing» Monckton as a charlatan, just giving him a prominent national platform to air his fact - free flatulence

This is just a cheap knock off of James Randi's Million Dollar Psychic challenge in the hope that climatology will be branded as charlatans.

The attorneys that refuse to pay, or selfishly reduce their referral fees to other lawyers get clobbered in their relative legal community as Charlatans and lowlifes.

The «physic» is as they should be in almost every episode discounted as a charlatan.

Intent on exposing her as a charlatan and freeing the followers from her grip, Peter and Lorna start to question their objective and each other as they unravel the secrets of Maggie's underworld.

Intent on exposing her as a charlatan and freeing the followers from her grip, Peter and Lorna start to question their objective and each other and they unravel the secrets of Maggie's underworld.»

But what made things so fascinating was that their tweets were fundamentally, diametrically opposedone gladly worshipped at the altar of all things Gladwell; the other decried him as a charlatan Pied Pipering his unquestioning listeners down a rabbit hole of rubbishand yet, though they were in the same space, and even reporting using the same hashtag, they werent engaging with each other in the least.

I used to think of the American artist (b. 1955) as a charlatan.

And while acknowledging the skills of artists including Jackson Pollock (1912 - 56), Willem De Kooning (1904 - 97) and Mark Rothko (1903 - 70), he denounced many exponents of this style of modern art, as charlatans.