Sentences with phrase «humbug who»

Lord Heseltine is a frightful old humbug who divided the Conservative party more than anybody else in our modern history and a period of silence on his part would be welcome.»

That Thoreau was a humbug who is only kept in print by his capacity to capture the passing fancies of impressionable adolescents is neither here nor there to the editors of the Times, who apparently feel entitled to indulge their own impulse to throw an adolescent snit in protest against a nation that appreciates them insufficiently.

Not exact matches

most of them German expressionists, were gathered in a large - scale traveling exhibition designed to illustrate what he termed the «degenerate Jew - boy» tendencies of those so - called «artists» who wished to inflict their «humbug» on the German people.

She said it was humbug, that children only improved because of the extra attention they got from their parents who now were carefully overseeing their child's diet.

But some who heard the story thought Humboldt was a humbug: «Humboldt had described eels attacking horses... but people didn't necessarily believe it.»

Before you say, «bah humbug,» if your holiday was filled with Aunt Sally asking about your relationship status, or your friends changing theirs to the point that you slammed your computer shut and deleted all mobile dating apps, now's the time, before New Year's for singles who dreaded the holiday and are ready for a new beginning.

Most notable is a «humbug» - spouting miser (Christopher Plummer, digging in with crusty brio) who will inspire the character of Ebenezer Scrooge, that «Christmas Carol» engine himself.

A modern Scrooge, who believes marriage is humbug, but is taught otherwise by the ghosts of girlfriends past, present and future, and one who spans all of those periods.

But for those who leave their bah - humbug attitudes at home, it's a wonderfully entertaining take on a classic.

But he struggles with his vision for the sake of his wife Charity (Michelle Williams) and their two daughters, first in near - poverty and later in success as he attempts to stick it to high - society naysayers who don't appreciate his «primitive circus of humbug.»

It's tough to stifle a laugh when Dicks comes upon a miserly old man in a cemetery who mutters a grumpy «humbug» to him as he passes, especially as Stevens» eyes widen in an exaggerated «Eureka!»

Living in a cave atop the nearby Mt. Crumpit is the Grinch (Carrey), the fuzzy green ball o» bah humbug that attempts to rob the Whos of their holiday cheer by stealing all of their presents.

Of those who saw A Christmas Carol, 93 percent knew that humbug meant «nonsense or a trick» compared to 62 percent of the control group, and 66 percent knew that destitute meant «very poor,» compared to 50 percent of the control group.

Fleming doesn't shrink from the Prince of Humbug's dark side, either, painting him as a heavy drinker, a potential corrupter of the dwarf Tom Thumb (who was smoking cigars by age seven), and a cruel husband who hastily married a woman 40 years his junior.

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Who would be a humbug and stop the sunbeam of prosperity when it is shining with full power?

It was done by somebody who objects to political agenda driven science as well as believing that the science is humbug.

~ On Friday the ongoing posturing and showboating from senatorial humbugs over the nomination of a new CIA director prompted Mark to re-air a timely episode of The Mark Steyn Show in which he interviewed the man who waterboarded Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Dr James Mitchell.

Read it all in the New York Times; For an opposing view, read David Katz in Huffington Post, who says «The notion that sugar is evil and the only dietary consideration that matters is, in a word, humbug.»

Thanks for your patience, and bah humbug to those who submit all that junk for making good folks like you wait.