Sentences with phrase «of flimflam»

That's just the start of the flimflams.

Not exact matches

As much as we may loathe the behavior of the expert flimflam man, we also have to admire his grasp of human psychology and skills of persuasion — skills it's possible to use for far more admirable ends, according to author Alexa Clay.

In truth, that was a bit of Academy flimflam.

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.

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.

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.

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?!

I checked my DS and between FlimFlam, Jr. and myself, we're at 303 hours of Animal Crossing: New Leaf.

The flimflam of the merchants is probably more evident on film than on a written page.

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.

It has cropped up in everything from a Supreme Court of Pennsylvania dispute over the qualifications of expert witnesses — «No more flimflam, higgledy - piggledy, harum - scarum expert witnesses» 12 — to the 8th Circuit's affirmation of a trial court's discretion over the order in which evidence is presented — «[t] o ensure that trial does not proceed higgledy - piggledy.»