Sentences with phrase «hucksters who»

The article by Milo Yannopolous takes a look at the «social media gurus, a rag - tag crew of blood - sucking hucksters who are infesting companies of all sizes, on both sides of the Atlantic, blagging their way into consultancy roles and siphoning off valuable recession - era marketing spend to feed their comic book addictions.»

They spring up like poisonous mushrooms in every fast - growing industry, hucksters who think they've found a way to make a quick buck by circumventing hard work and offering an inferior product to a gullible public.

Even those hucksters who did sell actual snake oil would likely have sold the rattlesnake variety, nearly useless for any ache - relieving medicinal purpose.

2:17), holy hucksters who are prepared to apply the strategies of salesmanship, but who do not appear sincerely interested in the well - being of those whom we encounter.

It's certain to be over run by hucksters who prey on non-sophisticated investors they propose.

If we want things to get better, the first step is to clearly understand the problems and then to start thinking about what we can do to shut down the click - bait con artists, viral vultures, and other BS hucksters who are clogging up the critical arteries of the Internet with their cheap tricks and phony features.

... He's a self - promoting huckster who found a vein, a vein of meanness and nastiness.»

He is an amoral huckster who has managed to fool a lot of people.

A not so slick huckster who even lies about his education, his past, and his qualifications.

Cruise is the title character, a top - of - the - line sports agent and glad - handing huckster who sounds like he's doing a commercial every time he opens his mouth.

In this musical, Dan Dailey plays a medicine show huckster who becomes the reluctant guardian of orphanage escapee Chet Allen.

They do this under the watchful eye of magic naysayer Morgan Freeman, a huckster who earns a buck exposing the tricks of magicians.

Not exact matches

He doesn't have the gift of healing; he's a huckster, a fraud, someone who needs to be called out.

Um, who spends millions upon millions of dollars building elaborate, ostentatious, horrendous church buildings, temples and mosques... and funds the religious hucksters» posh lifestyles?

7) Celebrity is now the main species of modern fame, although perhaps, one can pursue it with a pre-modern devotion to honorable greatness: the one who we sometimes call a «righteous» rock - star or film actor accepts a certain inevitable celebrity - huckstering and the un-earned honors that accompany it, but never compromises the key principles of their art.

So «The Donald» finally «Dumped The TRUMP» and «The Huckster» is gone too, who will take over the «GOP BIRTHER» reigns?

The only ones who profit are the hucksters at the top of the pyramid teaching these lies from the pulpit.

They formed as unlikely a foursome as racing has known — Howard the carny - barking huckster, Smith the enigmatic loner, Pollard the injury - prone journeyman who saw Seabiscuit as his final chance and the unprepossessing horse himself — the knob - kneed, crooked - legged Biscuit.

«Vulnerable individuals, including minors, are susceptible to the hucksters and scammers who are eager to earn a quick buck in this insidious way,» Dromm said at Wednesday's committee hearing.

He's a narcissist and a huckster, an opportunist who not only failed to join conservatives in the big fights about the size and scope of government over the past several decades but, to the extent he was even aware of such battles, was often funding the other side, with a long list of contributions to the liberals most responsible for the dire state of affairs in the country, including likely Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.

Honeyed hyena testes sound preferable to the handiwork of Kansas huckster John Brinkley, who inserted slices of goat scrotum into men's testicles in the 1920s, claiming it would boost virility and cure a host of ailments.

Great question because there are a lot of hucksters out there trying to take advantage of people who are feeling toxic, tired, or fat.

If you think otherwise then you've been suckered in by such hucksters as Gary Taubes and Jimmy Moore who are peddling the same old Atkins turd polished up and re-branded as the new way to give yourself heart disease.

Here, our wily superspy is actually a cheery huckster played by Leonardo DiCaprio who attempts to fraud his way to infamy as an outlet for his chronic daddy issues.

The President (Daniel Day - Lewis) needs to persuade 20 - odd Democrats to say «aye» to the abolishing of slavery, so his sceptical but loyal Secretary of State (David Strathairn) sends a trio of rollicking hucksters (James Spader, John Hawkes and Tim Blake Nelson) to offer juicy jobs to anyone who seems biddable.

American Grindhouse takes a fascinating look at the films, filmmakers, hucksters and hustlers who made it all happen.

Still others are, undoubtedly, hucksters and profiteers who have seen the relatively new school choice sector as an easily exploited honey pot that is still too loosely regulated to catch fraud in the form of double dealing and self enrichment.

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.

The hucksters «who think they've found a way to make a quick buck» are the various putative experts that have sprung up «like poisonous mushrooms» to exploit naïve, hopeful indie writers.

There's nothing to add to it, other than to say that the «hucksters» you speak of aren't the inept writers who glut the market and make it difficult to separate the wheat from the chaff.

Online hucksters are taking advantage of people in an attempt to make a quick buck from the people who want get involved.

Granted, there are always hucksters that say with P. T. Barnum, who is alleged to have said, «There's a sucker born every minute.»

[Then, of course, there's the risk of hucksters / con - men who'll utilize any viable investment theme to try strip you bare.

There will always be, hucksters, marketers and even some veterinarians who claim that they will provide you with amazing remedies and treatments outside the borders of traditional veterinary or human medicine.

Fast forward 100 years and we still have folks making those claims — dog owners, scientists, and entrepreneurs, each group with probably a few hucksters among them, who claim to be on the verge of a device that translates dog to human.

There's a Niagara Falls - style wedding destination with haughty chefs, a crazy, beetle - obsessed rich guy who lives in a tower, and even a whole town of frogs led by a sagely huckster.

The skillful huckster knows he can dodge the Logos bullet if he can persuade you to accept his version of reality - and E3 is nothing if not an exhilarating reality distortion field that sucks in all who draw near.

If there is a 97 per cent, the real scientists within that number need to clean house and reclaim their science from the hucksters - and not put up with fake polar - bear scares and the political opportunists who peddle them to the world.

Pretty funny to hear the Population Bomb huckster dismiss as «hacks and has - beens» two (real) Nobel Laureates, the former President of the Royal Statistical Society, the former President of the Statistical Society of Canada, the former President of the Royal Meteorological Society, the former President of the New Zealand Association of Scientists, the founder of the Lamont - Doherty Tree - Ring Laboratory, the inventor of the Gaia hypothesis, the inventor of the argon ion laser, the proponent of the Mobile Polar High, the founding editor of the journal Climate Change, the chief scientist of the UK Met Office, the principal investigator for the National Centre for Atmospheric Research, the man who developed the first satellite temperature record, etc..

The trend over nearly a decade is this: as much as bitcoin is propped up by hucksters looking to make a fast buck, there are many more still who work on building the project along every day.

Montelongo has been described by Forbes magazine as a «Home - Flipping Huckster» who offers «long weekends of questionable advice, raucous showmanship and tours of foreclosed homes in some of America's poorest sections.»