Sentences with word «flimflam»
In fact, it is my opinion that Steyn on Mann should be included as a mandatory textbook for anyone studying ethics of science or history of science, and wondering how not to be taken in by flimflam artists masquerading as scientists.
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On the contrary: Büchel's proposal allows us to see through layers of flimflam, illusion, posturing, and political theater, while also revealing a dark side of one of art's most respected recent art movements.»
My personal touchstone for this kind of ultimately meaningless flimflam was written by a liberal Anglican a few years ago: «I'm not even all that comfortable saying I believe in God... I would rather say that I affirm the rhetorical tradition in which God is the most basicreality.»
This is the usual industry flimflam.
They may have been fed flimflam — Marciano and Clay sparred more than 70 rounds for the cameras last summer, dutifully giving the film editors a wide variety of situations to choose from in putting the «fight» together — but they loved it.
In truth, that was a bit of Academy flimflam.
She had no reason to suspect that he was a third generation flimflam man descended from a grandfather who ran a crooked poker game in Harlem back in the day.
Still, in spite of his personal idiosyncrasies, he's become a connoisseur of crime, a kind of authority on flimflam.
Goggins has been typecast as a silver - tongued flimflam man, in the tradition of the characters he played in Justified and The Hateful Eight, but the actor is so sensually, poetically alive that it doesn't matter, especially next to Eastwood's hopelessly contemporary man of few words.
When small - time magician Oscar Diggs (James Franco) pulls one flimflam too many, he finds himself hurled into the fantastical Land of Oz where he must somehow transform himself into the great and powerful Wizard — and just maybe into a better man as well.
It is not only the national teachers unions that get away with loophole flimflam; all the state teacher union affiliates take advantage of their tax exempt status too.
Theirs is not a real global warming event, it is essentially nothing more than statistical flimflam.
This site has been hijacked by the denialsts and flimflam artists like kim and lillith, I refuse to POST here anymore until they are removed.
Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris's Battle of the Sexes, which opened the Los Cabos International Film Festival this year and has been playing in America for several weeks, is a formulaic underdog story that retrofits fashionably woke contemporary sentiments into a 1970s setting, telling the story of a tennis match between ranked player Billie Jean King and ex-champ and flimflam man Bobby Riggs.
«A certain state of public mind is often necessary,» journalist Max Sherover wrote in his 1914 book «Fakes in America Journalism,» for «the economic masters of this country to flimflam the people.»
Those changes at the top, important as they may seem, are flimflam.
I'm not surprised to see that flimflam man Cuomo is up to no good again.
That's just the start of the flimflams.
Should Mark Janus be successful in freeing himself from forced dues payments, that 34 percent could shrink considerably, in spite of the union lies and flimflam that will undoubtedly escalate.
Amerigo Vespucci — pimp, flimflam man, diplomat, and inventive writer — is brightly animated in this compelling biography.
No matter the business service offered, there will always be scams and flimflam artists.
Sometimes, I am disoriented by all this flimflam about being a bestseller.
Yes, I should explain: a) if things were going horribly wrong, he'd simply avoid shareholders, b) if he's a flimflam artist, surely he'd coax a higher share price out of investors (at least temporarily), or c) maybe there's a tiny bit of substance here?!
We just put a new TV in at the FlimFlam Flophouse, so to output in the living room without more cables would be a great thing.
We had the exact same conversation at the FlimFlam household.
A flimflam man first, artist second.
The flimflam of the merchants is probably more evident on film than on a written page.
Dell does make a 2 - in - 1 hybrid XPS 13, but this version is for people who think hybrids are a bit, well, flimflam.