Sentences with phrase «confidence tricksters»
"Confidence tricksters" refers to people who deceive others by gaining their trust and manipulating them into giving them money or valuable things. They use persuasion and charm to trick their victims into believing their lies, ultimately taking advantage of their confidence. Full definition
Redford plays Depression - era confidence trickster Johnny Hooker, whose friend and mentor Luther Coleman (Robert Earl Jones) is murdered by racketeer / gambler Doyle Lonnegan (Robert Shaw).
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It combines two familiar western subjects: the alliance between travelling confidence tricksters and the role of African - Americans in the west.
If there is a sucker born every minute, then the same can also be said of films about confidence tricksters.
Confidence tricksters use people's limitations to take advantage.
Don't miss Lee's discussion of the four sales force members to watch out for: the Meeting Monkey, the Box Monkey, the Leech and the Confidence Trickster.
It's in Chapter 1 of the Confidence Tricksters handbook.
Echikunwoke's British - speaking Rose amusingly calls most men «playboy operators» and «confidence tricksters,» and when Lily asks if the campus boys are the same age as them, Rose answers with «only numerically.»
The film is being directed by Crazy, Stupid, Love duo Glenn Ficarra and John Requa, who worked with Margot on upcoming crime drama Focus, starring her as a confidence trickster who teams up with another conman, played by Will Smith.
Her books cover a huge range of subjects including the confidence trickster, running a secret society and zero through to Damp in Ditchwater, a postcard book that has grown from her own attraction to «less than exciting» museums.