Sentences with phrase «elaborate hoax in»

So assuming this is not the most elaborate hoax in internet history, the BlackBerry Z30 is to sport a surprisingly crisp albeit a tad hard to use in difficult light conditions 5 - inch Super AMOLED screen with a resolution of 1,280 x 720 pixels.

Little did they know that the Turk was a very clever fraud, one of the most elaborate hoaxes in history.

Not exact matches

The Washington Post reported Thursday that PropOrNot and the nonpartisan Foreign Policy Research Institute both attribute the flood of so - called fake news, or hoax and misleading headlines, during the 2016 election to an elaborate Russian propaganda campaign aimed at sowing distrust in the American political system and undermining public consensus.

Certain Progressive historians prepared the intellectual ground for this transition, arguing with varying intensity (and inaccuracy) that Mr. Madison's Constitution was, in effect, an elaborate hoax, an instrument whose nominal republican sentiments masked a deeper, sinister intent to protect the political and economic power of the ruling classes.

Sedita held a memorable press conference in late - September to explain that alleged evidence tampering was actually an elaborate hoax carried out by the mother of the accuser.

The original mermaid's unveiling however, made for a very elaborate hoax; in order to have the public's curiosity, Barnum had one of his associates disguise himself as a «Dr. J. Griffin» of the Lyceum of Natural History, and sent the press letters about the doctor, who had in his possession a great discovery, and because Griffin was a «certified naturalist,» everyone believed it to be real.

«Speed Racer» is so hyperfrenetic that, in the end, you wonder if the Wachowskis aren't trying to pull off an elaborate hoax — a deranged techno fantasia posing as retro - ish family fare.

Using the machined aluminium collar that surrounds the start / stop button, there are three dynamic modes to choose from: «Dynamic» is default, «Sport» hones the magnetic ride dampers and sharpens the already electric throttle response (come to think of it, they did plug the car in several times during the day... perhaps it was all an elaborate hoax and this is in fact the world's first hybrid supercar?)

Maybe you don't want to devise an elaborate hoax for April Fools» Day (see: Google as «Topeka»), but there is another way to get in the spirit of practical jokes — reading, of course!

The New Yorker's «Book Bench» blog points out that Assassin of Secrets lifts so many passages from other sources that the book is more of a «pastiche or collage, rather than a «novel,» as we properly understand the word» and that Q.R. Markham (the pseudonym for Quentin Rowan), who is a poet and part owner of a bookstore in Williamsburg, a section of Brooklyn, may have consciously perpetrated an elaborate hoax.

It was previously reported that this little golden beauty of Nintendo handheld excellence would only release in Europe, so hopefully the crude scan of GameStop's holiday specials is in fact legit, and not some elaborate hoax to get Zelda fans in a tizzy only to crush their gold triforce having 3DS XL dreams.

Alas, as I've written before, such equivocation on the part of educators constitutes a win for the climate - denial movement, which has largely moved beyond characterizing climate change as an elaborate worldwide hoax and is now willing to settle for convincing people — in perpetuity, apparently — that the jury is still out.

«If climate change is an elaborate hoax, then the ice sheets must be in on it; the sea level must be in on it; and the polar bears are likely in on it, although they are big losers.»