Sentences with phrase «of mountebanks»
It is the mere Abracadabra of the mountebanks calling themselves the priests of Jesus.»
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The willingness to use the «abracadabra of the mountebanks calling themselves the priests of Jesus» (to borrow from Jefferson) takes a «different» kind of personal morals than I am equipped with.
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It featured some mountebank striding up and down in front of an audience, wisecracking and sneering at Darwinism....
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.
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.»
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.
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.
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.
Particularly I'm interested in those historically greyed gradations between what the Greeks called «persuasion» («pathei» if I remember, though I'm probably wrong) and what became, via the Christian concept of «Truth», «honesty», a totally alien concept to the classical world (for no one was capable of «lieing», then)-- to «persuade», even in the 1300's, with «graphs» would have classed you as a mountebank and a charlatan.