Sentences with phrase «as a charlatan who»

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

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

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

Not exact matches

You'd consider someone who tried to pass awareness as worth hiring as naive at best — more likely, a charlatan or clown.

King would have viewed this legislation as one of the decrepit consequences of unchecked late capitalism: a wealthy, charlatan president who leverages anti-black racism and fear in order to exploit the power of the presidency for personal gain.

As more move towards this more genuine vision of our reality, the power and sway of these charlatan's who have caused humanity so much harm and suffering will lose more of their grip until they fade into obscurity.

Unlike Martin Luther King Jr., who I respect enormously for his stand against racism but otherwise view as just another lying charlatan shaman, I have not committed adultery.

Unfortunately, religious droll such as yours still appeals to some people who want to be told what to do by manipulative and deceitful charlatans like yourself.»

The Bible is a book of lies, written by charlatans with an agenda, and it has been used for centuries as a means to oppress innocent people, ratinoalize bigotry, justify wars, and as a hiding place for false prophets who bugger little boys and defraud little old ladies.

If no order had been given about what to do while the charlatan was saying his mumbo - jumbo, there would not have been a problem — those who wanted to participate as their cult requires would have done so and nobody would have been checking to see who was doing what.

The context of the reference to «hell» was for charismatic charlatans who preach a lie as a pretense for their own personal gain.

In a statement by her media adviser, Paul Nwabuikwu, the ex-minister who described such move as a joke said «the malicious attempt by Lagos Lawyer, Femi Falana to mix Dr Ngozi Okonjo - Iweala up in issues that have nothing to do with her in his letter to the International Criminal Court (ICC) adding that it is a desperate joke by an integrity challenged charlatan (ICC).»

Had he been in the audience, Nicoletti would have heard an angry Councilor Khalid Bey denounce Nicoletti's council supporters as «charlatans» who resorted to «underhanded» manoeuvers in pursuit of «cronyism.»

Sadly, most coaches that market themselves as miracle workers are nothing more than boastful charlatans with a couple of useless certificates, aiming to exploit anyone who's confused, inexperienced and naive.

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.

Emma Stone, fresh from her role as Sophie in «Magic in the Moonlight,» about an Englishman called in to unmask a charlatan, is incredibly charming as a student in love with her much older teacher now serving as his confidante, while Joaquin Phoenix is ideal as a man who for half the movie is dead from the next down and who finds meaning in life only when he contemplates murder.

Drawing on the real - life story of Scientology founder L Ron Hubbard, The Master boasts a career - best performance from Philip Seymour Hoffman as the charismatic charlatan who establishes a strange new religion.

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.

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.

(Unrated) «Snake oil» biopic Dr. John Romulus Brinkley (1885 - 1942), a charlatan with a phony medical degree who made a fortune by performing goat testicle transplants on men all across the country as a cure for impotence.

Michigan's charter school «industry» — and that's what it is, an industry; not an educational system, but rather a business model designed to steal public money and slip it into private bank accounts — is wildly out of control, an unregulated Wild West playground for unscrupulous hucksters, quacks and charlatans who see our school system and our children as an untapped well - spring of profits.

Critics have painted not only Lee's attorney — Tonja Carter, a professional who was hand - picked by someone who loved Harper Lee possibly more than anyone else in the world — but also HarperCollins as being greedy charlatans who would take advantage of an elderly woman for their own gain.

You can not let a few posters who you clearly feel are charlatans prevent you from discussing topics you feel are important... you will be perceived as defeated.

Of course historically, as anyone who has bothered to read history knows, the actual scenario is that the false prediction of apocalypse gets delayed until the charlatans who promoted and profited from it are dead or forgotten.

Then it would be easier to discern the true brilliance and good science from the charlatans and showmen who can look very similar — the hardest is when they overlap as happened I think with Tesla.

But that's how it went down last month, as climate change skeptics heralded a recent paper that «proves a 15 - year hiatus in global warming» and rebuffs the «venomous charlatans» who peddled the climate change myth to a gullible public.

who say that we must write our own resumes, and hiring a resume writer is as good as hiring a charlatan (those are my words, but that's the message I hear from him).