Sentences with word «snakeoil»

When are black folks going to wake up from worshiping these «triflin», profit driven, self centered snakeoil salesmen?

The Guardian's Peter Bradshaw handed Anderson's film a five - star review at Venice, calling it «an arresting and utterly absorbing psychological drama of marginal lives, an emotional history of charlatanism and gimcrack philosophy, a world of snakeoil truth salesmen offering self - medication of the spirit, all set in a postwar America realised with superb flair and confidence, utterly without cliche».

The most amusing part of the Cambridge Analytica thing is people replying to me saying they're just salesmen and it's just snakeoil.

They realized it was nothing more than a glorified presser, and worse, yet another example of Silicon Valley's blindness for snakeoil.

But the sleazebag snakeoil promoters cite Glencore as having $ 19 billion in «liquid» inventories so the debt number that gets quoted and widely accepted is $ 31 billion.

I still get snakeoil / god sellers coming to my door to push it, occasionally.

In either case what's needed with what we have and we have Greece so it's time to burn government bureaucrats and roast'm in their own snakeoil..

LaVorgna is a hack who has spent his career on Wall Street preaching fairytales about the economy as a means of assisting the snakeoil salesmen at his bank in their efforts to stuff as much high - commission junk into investor accounts as possible.

As for preachers, well, we all know what a snakeoil salesman is, don't we?

Now the snakeoil salesmen will have to move to the next «do as little as possible» profession... probably politics.

There's a bit of an exacerbated chicken - and - egg problem here, in that serious security technologies are far more expensive than weak technologies or snakeoil, but until we have (expensively!)

demonstrated the pricey ones are viable, the snakeoil vendors will easily be able to discourage the people with money to spend from trying competing approaches.

...» Some of these lawyers / Internet «n00bs,» he fears, will be «targeted by the snakeoil salesmen,» and «easily taken in by the former lawyers and their cohorts whose own financial security is dependent on the foolishness and ignorance of the desperate.»