Sentences with word «mountebank»

Othello's stature is confirmed when the Duke and his council consider Brabantio's accusation that his daughter «is abus'd, stol»n from me, and corrupted / By spells and medicines bought of mountebanks.»

But to the secular mind, the question is how is it even possible to find God in the maze of cults, religions and TV mountebanks, all clamoring for attention against the background of a starving, war - torn planet.

After all, the very Jesus who promised us that «the gates of hell shall not prevail against» his church was transformed by Smith's revelations into a muddled mountebank: The church was indeed quickly prevailed against and taken from the earth.

For two decades, activists like Carmichael, street prophets like Farrakhan, and academic mountebanks like Baraka and the egregious Angela Davis have been stars of the campus circuit, indoctrinating new generations in the divisive and racially polarizing ideologies of the radical paradigm, and in the denigration of American values and institutions.

Hoffman (whose performance in Magnolia may have been the most underrated of his career) makes for a magnificent mountebank, his belief stretched a mile wide and an inch deep.

Police in Warren, Michigan, reported today the theft of the last remaining unburned rendering of the 1982 Cadillac Cimarron premium - mountebank sedan, along with the discovery of a ransom note threatening its release into the atmosphere.

I did actually ponder an investment in ACMH at one point, until I saw this photo...» Egad, Carruthers, the man was a cad, a real bounder, a damn mountebank... splutter!»

Why anybody should care what new mechanism that mountebank finds to further capitalize on spreading lies is beyond me.

It featured some mountebank striding up and down in front of an audience, wisecracking and sneering at Darwinism....

He was a hard grader and he had no time for fools and mountebanks and silliness in his class, which meant that most of us feared and disliked him and thought him autocratic and spent far more time making snippy jokes and finding endlessly creative ways to waste class time than we did paying attention to the subject or Mister Bossy's steady undramatic efforts to teach us basic biology.

He called Muggeridge — one of the most acclaimed journalists of the twentieth century — an «old fraud and mountebank,» mocked his belief in the supernatural, and even referred to Mother Teresa as a «presumable virgin.»

Some thought he was a mountebank and a fake.

It is the mere Abracadabra of the mountebanks calling themselves the priests of Jesus.»

A charlatan (also called swindler or mountebank) is a person practicing quackery or some similar confidence trick in order to obtain money, fame or other advantages via some form of pretense or deception.

Vocations that were related in any way to the powers of evil — such as making idols, being a heathen priest, a user of magic verses, an enchanter, astrologer, diviner, soothsayer, juggler, mountebank or amulet - maker - had to be abandoned, and any lifestyle that led one into immorality was to be rejected.

Saracen conjurer, agent of the French, actor, rogue, mountebank: Mr. Smith is called each of these things at some point during his time in New York.

A charlatan (also called swindler or mountebank) is a person practising quackery or some similar confidence trick in order to obtain money, fame or other advantages via some form of pretense or deception.

In fact, Bullock had initially argued, it was likely he had believed in nothing... Hitler was a «mountebank,» Bullock exclaimed, a con man who played the Jewish card, using it to whip up rowdy enthusiasm and give the impression of a movement.

He certainly does not believe the effects of global warming are as dire as some peddlers and mountebanks have pushed, but that does not mean he's a «denier.»

«He's a mountebank.»