Sentences with phrase «of humbugs»

To quote William Makepeace Thackeray, the lapel - creasing showdown — if not the entire Gatsbyesque experience that was the over-the-top opening of Mexico City's Museo Jumex — epitomised today's gilded global artworld as «a very vain, wicked, foolish place, full of all sorts of humbugs and falsenesses and pretensions».

That gave con artists or carnival barkers like P.T. Barnum — whose spectacular career as the Prince of Humbugs is portrayed by Hugh Jackman in the recent blockbuster musical film — a golden opportunity to swoop in to make you feel better while they take your money or steal your soul or your vote.

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.»

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.

Not exact matches

Whilst there may be greed, humbug or arrogance in the increasingly frequent experiments of teenagers, there is more often just confusion and «a sweet love blasted in the bud.»

The Christian heroism (and perhaps it is rarely to be seen) is to venture wholly to be oneself, as an individual man, this definite individual man, alone before the face of God, alone in this tremendous exertion and this tremendous responsibility; but it is not Christian heroism to be humbugged by the pure idea of humanity or to play the game of marveling at world - history.

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.

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.

Humbug is humbug, even though it bear the scientific name, and the total expression of human experience, as I view it objectively, invincibly urges me beyond the narrow «scientific» bHumbug is humbug, even though it bear the scientific name, and the total expression of human experience, as I view it objectively, invincibly urges me beyond the narrow «scientific» bhumbug, even though it bear the scientific name, and the total expression of human experience, as I view it objectively, invincibly urges me beyond the narrow «scientific» bounds.

These humbugs are a unique take of a classic making the pefect gift.

One of those realisations was that I needed to stop procrastinating, sporadically posting and generally bah - humbugging about my passion, food.

It looks as if Wenger is staying and that Ozil and Sanchez will be sold during the summer, as there's no way that a humbug club like Arsenal will risk losing them for free at the end of next season.

The faux «loyalty» that Wenger claims, in humbug style, to show, is ONLY to his own power, salary and his inability to do anything else outside football, which at 68, most people of his age have to accept.

its a world of different opinions and the above is mine ppl may disagree, but im pretty sure its unanimous on Wenger Stubborn arrogant personified, lets not go into his scrooge bah humbug looks and penny pinching lol

Without wishing to be too «bah humbug» about this, let's pause to think for a moment about the realities of UK family life.

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.

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.»

The holiday spirit is taking a beating in one Connecticut town — where neighbors are saying bah, humbug to a dazzling display of Christmas lights that draws thousands of gawkers and raises cash for sick kids.

This is where he really is guilty of being a complete humbug.

Science, they might say, is a great disturber of pretence and guise, it shouts scorn and cocks a snook at the humbug and the moral cant that we see around us, and inside us, and it says to us: reality is this way, over here, in this direction.

Im already known as a bah - humbugging buzzkill for insisting on clearing away wrapping paper in between rounds of gift - opening every Christmas.

This might be bah humbug time in some circles but, at EliteSingles, we just can't help it; we truly believe that Christmas can be the most romantic time of the year.

It's enough to make you scream, «Bah, humbug» and turn off both your computer and phone to unplug, but please don't do so on January 3rd, when you have the greater chance of connecting with someone new.

We're no humbugs here at EliteSingles; we believe that Christmas is one of the most romantic times of the year.

Synopsis: Though London awaits the joyful arrival of Christmas, miserly Ebenezer Scrooge (Jim Carrey) thinks it's all humbug, berating his faithful clerk and... [MORE]

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.

In this splendidly scrambled story, the Scrooge - ish network head is a humbug of the highest order: He bullies his selfless secretary (Alfre Woodard); he rejects his only brother (Brian Doyle Murray) and, indicative of his mean - spirited ways, he fires a longtime employee (Bobcat Goldthwait) on Christmas Eve, ostensibly to save a Christmas bonus.

But The Greatest Showman hasn't come to linger on that kind of self - reflection; it's too busy delivering great spectacle, and a lot of swirly, shiny humbug.

Though he did say a lot of other things — including «The bigger humbug, the better people will like it.»

Sorry to bah humbug all over this thing, but the 1995 attempt to bring Chris van Allsburg's 1981 children's book to the screen wasn't exactly all that to begin with, despite attempts by star Robin Williams and a menagerie of animals to bring it to life.

Save those Justin Hartley moments, the film is a bore, plucked of its strengths while its capable troupe gives their all to a script that's bah - humbug.

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.

The role of Dickens's father John, twice imprisoned for debt and the model for Mr Micawber in David Copperfield, falls to Jonathan Pryce, in a sentimental turn that's intentionally the antithesis to Plummer's expert humbugging.

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 grouOf 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 grouof the control group, and 66 percent knew that destitute meant «very poor,» compared to 50 percent of the control grouof the control group.

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Both men sweep into her life, testing her faith, and stirring up desire and confusion in equal measure.If she can just get through this humbug holiday without another heartache!In the spirit of Hallmark mo...

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

Anyway, enough of the «Bah, humbug!»

We say lots of Bah Humbug — plus a few choice phrases and words that won't make it with the editor.

Humbug Point was named by pioneers because it was often confused with Hug Point, the next headland south and the most difficult headland to round when traveling south along this stretch of coast.

Sorry (not) if one sounds like a bah humbug but crikey some of the squares on my instagram feed are recommending images to me of homes beamed in from the other...

Plenty of anthias and humbugs in the shallows.

PS4 will force - fed you with all kind of social media humbug and the new controller is but ugly.

Baa Humbug (22:30:26) We may not pay $ 5 to hear anything the man has to say, but Kevin Rudd appears to be happy to pay him 1 million dollars of taxpayer's money to gaze into his crystal ball.

The Australian Government speaks so much humbug about greenhouse policies and the Kyoto Protocol that one could be excused for thinking that it operates in a parallel universe in which the normal rules of logic and evidence do not apply.

Baa Humbug, The most humorous version of what you describe is when believers claim it could not have been so bad, because it is so difficult to rationally understand it.

~ 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.

Jim Cripwell says: May 18, 2013 at 6:33 am «Baa Humbug says» Alert me when you get to climate sensitivity of zero and I'll pay attention» You may be interested in my extremely simplistic approach to this issue.