Sentences with phrase «as peddlers»

The word «intimacy,» like «love,» is a symbol that carries a freight of meanings as diverse as a peddler's wares.

Gersten's mother, Frieda Tepper Gersten, worked as a peddler and traveled throughout southern Poland, selling fabric and other items.

As a peddler, I find this is disaster.

The very words «yachting togs» on his catalog probably would have embarrassed Joe, who started as a peddler.

C.f. Obama Campaign Uses Micro-site To Brand McCain As Peddler Of Criminal Business»...

Not exact matches

Feeling better about your inability to unfailingly eliminate your negativity as recommended by the peddlers of positivity?

The self - appointed crusader, for one, would like the world to believe that he is a «dragon slayer,» in Parloff's words, who has set out to expose the dietary shake peddler as a predatory scammer.

LinkedIn and other social media have levelled the playing field between established recruiters and the independents they dismiss as resumé peddlers.

Fisk worked successively as a circus hand, waiter, peddler, dry - goods salesman, stockbroker, and corporate official.

In addition, the original animated version of the «Three Little Pigs» portrayed the Big Bad Wolf as a stereotypically Jewish peddler, although after complaints, the segment was altered.

That way, your prospects see you as a helpful problem solver they actually like and trust... not just a peddler of your product or service!

Nor will independents be so willing to believe that more than $ 1.5 million was paid for Gingrich's advice as «a historian» rather than for services as an influence peddler.

As an atheist I would of course welcome a «freedom from religion» holiday but I am willing to fore go that as long as the religious peddlers do the samAs an atheist I would of course welcome a «freedom from religion» holiday but I am willing to fore go that as long as the religious peddlers do the samas long as the religious peddlers do the samas the religious peddlers do the same.

Swedish Lutheran Bishop Einar Billing knew that, as he looked out at sluggish Scandinavian cheap - grace peddlers and consumers.

he passes things off as advice from a knowledgable news source when he is simply a peddler and a slimy man.

As superstar peddlers of pop - apocalyptica Jack van Impe and Tim Lahaye could attest, there is a ton of money to be made in the doom - forecasting business.

Daniel Nathel and his partner started the company after being successful as pushcart peddlers on the Lower East Side of New York City, setting up shop in the city's Washington Market before moving up to the Huntspoint Market in the Bronx in the 1960s.

As an oyster peddler, Arya is inconspicuous and blends in with the sights and sounds of the market.

Baseball magnates have been charged with monopoly, criticized for standpatism, characterized as flesh peddlers.

The answer must come fairly quickly, too, because, as was not the case in the old days when Ben Kerner roved the land with a franchise in his pocket, much as other peddlers had hawked pots and pans, the stakes are too high now for any protracted fight for survival.

A bill being introduced Wednesday afternoon would authorize the city Department of Transportation to establish rules for activity in the plazas — which could mean those street entertainers regarded as nuisances as well as assorted peddlers are confined to a designated area or driven away entirely.

The liar, the spin doctor, the rabble rouser and the smut peddler can all use the constitution as a rallying cry.

Prior to Spitzer's tenure, it was mostly used for smaller financial violations, such as «shady pharmacists, Ponzi schemes, and peddlers of fraudulent Salvador Dali lithographs,» according to a 2004 article in Legal Affairs by Nicholas Thompson, published prior to the revelation of the Bernie Madoff Ponzi scheme, for which Andrew Cuomo used the Martin Act when he was attorney general.

Most human innovations came after humans started eating grains, started farming which gave them more time to think about innovating (instead of hunting and foraging all day) Even the hunter gatherers these snake oil peddlers keep talking about did not eat as much meat and fat as these internet snake oilers would have you believe Study after study shows that they ate lots and lots of roots and berries etc etc..

An outrageous self - described «smut peddler», Flynt made a name for himself as a crude and obnoxious pornographer.

It may be too ponderous for some, and an appearance by Anjelica Huston as a snake - oil peddler near the end is a touch too surreal, but if you're a fan of Westerns the way they used to make them, you'll be mesmerised.

American actor Malcolm Atterbury may have been allowed more versatility on stage, but so far as TV was concerned he was the quintessential grouchy grandfather and / or frontier snake - oil peddler.

6 Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer A Jewish folktale set in modern - day Manhattan, this engrossing drama from Israeli writer - director Joseph Cedar (Footnote) features a career - topping performance from Richard Gere as a graying, fraying influence peddler whose generosity and opportunism are almost impossible to distinguish from each other.

Jimmi Simpson and Common are fine as the crooked cops and William Fichtner gives the sleazy DA the presence of a snake oil peddler.

Quackser Fortune Has a Cousin in the Bronx - Oddball romance with Gene Hackman as a Dublin peddler of horse manure who falls for American student Margot Kidder.

The film delicately plays with tone as we pace through the creaking and haunting chambers of The Yankee Peddler Inn with our main characters, waiting to see what secrets the Inn holds.

There seems the possibility that Anger Management has a pulse unrelated to Nicholson's freak show persona — that had Sandler the courage to continue to buck his image he would one day be taken seriously as an artist rather than a peddler of low art to low people.

What this says about me as the pitcher or catcher in domination scenarios is, admittedly, too much, but regardless, I came to this sub-genre late enough to not be terribly titillated by the Sapphic exploits of our European beauties, if interested in a detached way in smut peddlers and connoisseurs.

In Maud's case, this is Everett Lewis (Ethan Hawke), an ultra-masculine fish peddler who reluctantly takes on Maud as a housemaid but who gradually finds himself falling in love with her, at least in his own gruff ways.

Although said elisions are titled with a smut - peddler's desperation (e.g., «Lindsey on Toilet,» «Lindsey Takes a Bath»), there's some noteworthy material here, such as a longer version of the prologue — which veers closer to Farrelly pathos than anything that reached the final cut — and a scene set in a sports bar heretofore glimpsed only in the trailer.

These special effects are merely the epitome of Stargate's second - hand wonder; part of the film's value as a curiosity piece is its New York street - merchant vibe: like peddlers of the Rolux watch or Parda handbag, Emmerich and co - producer / co-writer Dean Devlin are selling us an approximation of a blockbuster by a licensed hitmaker, and we excuse them the same way we allow for the smudgy print of carbon copies or the colour bleed on VHS dubs.

Fast forward to Little Miss Sunshine, which played last year to a festival audience that now numbers 50,000, including «industry» denizens from studio - indie divisions, giant stand - alone indies such as Lionsgate, and a scattering of valiant unaffiliated independent companies, plus assorted lawyers, agents, producers, pr people, journalists and gossip - peddlers, fashionistas and bottom - feeders — every one of them attuned to the synergy among movies, TV, and the Web (it's all entertainment) and how that synergy serves the bottom line.

Gosling's David is all voids and sudden rages, his masculinity again in question because he can't quite complete an Oedipal split arrested first when, as a small boy, his mother kills herself in front of him, then when daddy dearest badgers him into taking a luxury suite in Manhattan so David can better collect suitcases full of cash from smut peddlers.

One more thing: I recently encountered a fascinating local author, Jonathan Papernick (google him), who will be participating in our Self - Publishing Authors Panel in October (see http://www.watertownlib.org/one-book-one-watertown/obow-events for details) who is known as The Book Peddler.

A dynamic anthology of Harlem in the 1920s brings together unpublished material by Ralph Ellison and Dorothy West as well as the stirring voices of ordinary people, including peddlers, prostitutes, Pullman porters, and domestic workers.

Platform peddlers point to Lawson's best selling book, Let's Pretend This Never Happened (Putnam) as an example of the power of a platform, but it's really an example of celebrity influence.

When a peddler suffers a stroke after exchanging harsh words with Alizon, a local magistrate, eager to make his name as a witch finder, plays neighbors and family members against one another until suspicion and paranoia reach frenzied heights.

Zemurray started out as a fruit peddler on the docks of Mobile, Alabama, and — through that classic combination of tenacity and instinct — eventually became the head of United Fruit, one of the wealthiest and most influential companies in American history.

Another fantastic approach to constructing narrative, Harding writes about the moment before a man's death and the story of that man's father's life as a traveling peddler.

As it happens, I'm not a former trunk peddler.

Then there are the companies that may be known for CSR but that I would not want to support, such as the world's second - biggest manufacturer and peddler of soft drinks.

As this fascinating timeline from the Center for Educational Telecommunications shows, Chinese peddlers were transforming the streets of New York back in 1830, and by the start of the 20th century, Korean immigrants were forming churches and mutual assistance societies in Hawaii and California.

Fall stands out as one of the most popular times of year at Peddler's Village with the annual Scarecrow Festival in October and the massive Apple Festival in November.

It's almost impossible to get rid of them as they are officially recognised, and most of them belong to the Boracay Vendors and Peddlers Association.

On the beach, there are many peddlers along the street, selling various local specialties, such as crafts, T - shirts, beach clothes and accessories.