News and notes: BIDEN CALLS TRUMP A 'CHARLATAN': Former Vice President Joe Biden ripped into Trump on Wednesday, calling Trump a "charlatan" at the Chicago Council of Global Affairs.
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In both cases, the medium or director is a charlatan.
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Like, Oh God, they're going to find out I'm a charlatan.
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He's called a genius, charlatan, visionary and crackpot in equal measure.
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"This time the charlatan was a cut above," Mr. Yamaji said.
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Is he a charlatan or an enfant terrible of the spirit world?
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The book about is called "Charlatan," which is a really great read.
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He's a lifelong charlatan, a con man, a habitué of bankruptcy courts.
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But Krumwiede is a charlatan who stands to profit off forsythia himself.
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Some of Trump's lies are the everyday speech of a charlatan — trade talk.
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Assuredly now everyone will see this man for the charlatan he truly is.
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But to point out that Moore is a crank and a charlatan would raise the difficult question of why a crank and charlatan has published in all the major conservative journals and held prominent positions in major conservative think tanks.
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Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, a close Putin ally, has called Navalny a political charlatan.
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Since McFarland was the charlatan architect of the fake Xanadu, the payment raised ethical concerns.
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Some object to Del Monte's declared affiliation with a person they believe is a charlatan.
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Calling him a flatulent baby-fingered, fear mongering, pachyderm-fucking racist charlatan is too charitable.
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The lineup includes a conjurer, a charlatan, a couple of clairvoyants and the Grand Carlini.
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"I wanted to make sure he wasn't a charlatan," Catsimatidis told The New York Times.
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New presidents typically grow into the job, but Trump remains a bully and a charlatan.
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His general flamboyance still arouses suspicions in some quarters that he might be a charlatan.
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Mr. Henry is, depending on your belief in the afterlife, a seer or a charlatan.
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In 1958, she married Clyde B. Atkins, an abusive charlatan who gambled away her money.
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In the combustible Wednesday news conference, the skills of a talented charlatan were on display.
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Here the prime character is Theodor Morell, Hitler's private physician, a slick and fawning charlatan.
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She feels like a charlatan whenever a person or situation reminds her of her humble origins.
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Some people wonder: why did so many bright young Japanese fall for such an obvious charlatan?
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These Christians have fallen for a cut-rate King David, a charlatan Solomon, a false prophet.
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The questions are obvious: Is Mr. Trump a charlatan who treats reality like a reality show?
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So what should be an attack on an irredeemable charlatan instead becomes something closer to fascination.
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Day by day, you watch this charlatan and his strange, enabling family and his sycophantic courtiers.
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But where some see an advocate, many others — particularly white people in town — see a charlatan.
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"I wanted to make sure he wasn't a charlatan," John Catsimatidis told The New York Times.
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He makes the atypical assertion that sometimes a charlatan really is no more than he seems.
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"He was a charlatan," Flynt says with a distinct note of admiration when I bring Falwell up.
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You are a reprobate and a charlatan who has ridden a wave of intolerance to its crest.
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I get it: My ruse has outed not only me as a pathological charlatan, but him, too.
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Almost all its leaders endorsed him, as Mr McCain did, ignoring overwhelming evidence that he was a charlatan.
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Perhaps Trump has once again avoided being seen as the phony charlatan he is by his base voters.
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"I do find David to, at times, sound a little bit like a charlatan," one wrote on Reddit.
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" And Marian the Librarian fell in love with a charming charlatan, Professor Harold Hill, in "The Music Man.
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So by all means stand up to Trump, point out that he's a charlatan and resist his initiatives.
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But none of this vehicles ended up flying for any sustained time, and many now consider Moller a charlatan.
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His editors during his career as a journalist have variously described him as a "cavorting charlatan" and "epically unreliable".
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It's time we put our political differences aside and work collectively to destroy this second-rate, faux-sandwich charlatan.
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Sure, Citizen's founder has no experience in law enforcement, and the app is endorsed by known charlatan Deepak Chopra.
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"I suspect that Spare was serious and Crowley a charlatan, and Spare had no time for charlatans," says Wynd.
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In the past, we the people has seen through every charlatan, every would-be tinpot dictator and ideological extremist.
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But the only way they could find out I was a charlatan is if I didn't turn in a script.
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John Lewis is a genuine American hero, and Trump is a charlatan, but Lewis's remark was Trumpian to the core.
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When will those in Congress and the 85033 percent of Americans who still support you realize you are a charlatan?
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When will those in Congress and the 30 percent of Americans who still support you realize you are a charlatan?
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Unbeknownst to them, though, Merlin is actually a charlatan whose only real talents are plowing through booze, money, and women. However!
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"I wanted to make sure he wasn't a charlatan," said Mr. Catsimatidis, who then texted the man's bio to his daughter.
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Instead, playing Dewey Finn, a loutish but lovable charlatan who inspires a class of overscheduled students, he has found his signature role.
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Passengers paid up to $21968,20003 each, gouged by a charlatan who lied about the ship's seaworthiness and visas, which were never provided.
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Moore spoke to me passionately about an American democracy that's been "hijacked by a charlatan"—alluding to his own active political involvement.
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The Russian minister also described as a charlatan the former British spy who wrote a dossier on Trump's alleged links to Russia.
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" And during a Chicago speech, he warned that the US is "walking down a dark path" under Trump, calling him a "charlatan.
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Now, if I can find my credentials, I will assure you that I'm not just any charlatan in a sportswriter's wrinkled clothing.
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And the app was quietly pulled from the App Store after it was revealed in March of 2015 that she was a charlatan.
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It could've finally led his opponents to convince viewers that they're grown-ups who can run the country and he's a dangerous charlatan.
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The news, which was not announced by ESPN but rather leaked to Fox Sports analyst and conservative charlatan Clay Travis, is quite dumb.
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Brennan has called Trump a "charlatan" and said he would become "a disgraced demagogue in the dustbin of history," among many other insults.
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By hiring a third party, restaurants are able to put a professional, athletic twist on the sad, grueling work of the blockside charlatan.
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Murray is a racist charlatan who's made a career out of pseudoscientific social Darwinist assertions that certain "races" are inherently inferior to others.
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The bass-baritone Christian Van Horn brought a mellow, robust voice to the Doctor, which lent this charlatan an intriguing touch of authority.
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Yet, after exposure, the "shameless charlatan" justified his pretence as a "noble, altruistic lie" that opened younger eyes to the evils of the Holocaust.
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The charlatan was busted by Aceh religious police in a car with a married woman near a tourist beach in September, BBC Indonesia reported.
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"I wanted to make sure he wasn't a charlatan," Catsimatidis, the billionaire owner of the Gristedes chain of supermarkets, told The New York Times.
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"I wanted to make sure he wasn't a charlatan," Catsimatidis, the billionaire owner of the Gristedes chain of supermarkets, told The New York Times.
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They included massive tax cuts with underestimated costs and unspecified financing — which is what led Krugman to call him a charlatan back in 2010.
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Like the clowns he shared the town square with, a good charlatan could often juggle, simultaneously keeping up pretensions to scientific rigor and mystical profundity.
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A French charlatan, Philippe Nazier-Vachot, conducted séances for the royal couple, and for a time convinced them of his ability to predict the future.
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" She rules in favor of the plaintiffs and calls the defendant a "charlatan," and he then threatens to sue Judge Judy to which she says "Goodbye!
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I do feel empathy, however, for all those people who have persuaded themselves that a whiny charlatan can offer them anything that will improve their lives.
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This is why we're able to have a charlatan in the same way that people believed in the tent show people who come by with elixirs.
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It's impossible to characterize a historical period before it's over, but I think one plausible name for our era will be the Age of the Charlatan.
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The idea that a charlatan might offer more solace than a real priest is a trite concept, but it's one that "Corpus Christi" portrays with conviction.
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He's sort of a deity and it's sort of a charlatan and sort of a magician in the ways that real magicians are both magical and charlatans.
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In the vintage watch market, fakes are very common, so it's crucial for people who are new to watches to make sure the seller isn't a charlatan.
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Jason Goodman, who runs the "Crowdsource the Truth" YouTube channel, last year labeled Gabriel "the latest double-talking charlatan to attempt to infiltrate the alternative media world."
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Mr Trump didn't know much about foreign and security policy, most Republican foreign-policy experts had denounced him as a charlatan, and he cannot forgive a slight.
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BIDEN BASHES: In a Chicago speech, Joe Biden called President Trump a charlatan and carved out attack lines that generally made him sound like a 2020 candidate.
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Anyone who believed it was possible to give crystal-clear answers to such questions would have to be a messiah or a charlatan, and Buber was neither.
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And then there's Bhagwan himself: otherworldly, fragile saint to his disciples, faux mystical, egotistical charlatan to outsiders, berobed, fishy eyed, a magpie for flashy watches and fancy cars.
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Not in the sense that I can prophesy a good future—only a charlatan would claim to know the future—but in the sense that problems are solvable.
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The cast includes Steve Zahn as Michael Fenne, a colorful charlatan and scam artist, whose lavish spending was enough -- at least for a while -- to dazzle the rubes.
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Most Chinese scholars have thought of Taoism as a degenerate philosophy — something that once had to do with Laozi but ended up with a bunch of charlatan tricks.
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There will be reform conservatives talking about how a sensible family policy would ease the white working class's concerns and prevent them from turning to a racist charlatan.
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I really yearn for the days when George H. W. Bush publicly denounced David Duke as a "charlatan" when he ran as a Republican for governor in 1991.
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My position was enormously strengthened by Britain's close relations with America, and my personal rapport with President Clinton (thank goodness she beat that charlatan calling himself "Mr Brexit").
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And then, the party sold its soul to the soulless charlatan who now occupies the Oval Office and makes a mockery of every one of the party's principles.
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Depending on your tastes, the conductor Teodor Currentzis might be classical music's savior or perhaps its chief charlatan, but there is no denying the power of his performances.
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Actually, the joke is on all of us, because this charlatan recently became an advisor to the Department of Health and Human Services' President's Council on Sports, Fitness & Nutrition.
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Reb Berish had many times made up his mind not to have any more conversations with his boarder, the charlatan who had gone through hell and remained no good.
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Prosecutors have told jurors in the case that Mr. Raniere claimed to be a guru but was actually a charlatan who used Nxivm as a vehicle to control women.
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During one talk show in Japan, Toru Yamaji, a journalist, referred to the Hanoi summit as a meeting between the "mafia" — meaning Mr. Kim — and a "charlatan" — Mr. Trump.
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Had something similar happened, and Mr. Jones had been exposed as the lunatic charlatan he is, perhaps not even Donald Trump would have deigned to be associated with him.
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As his African-American surrogate Mark Burns was revealed as a charlatan, Trump visited an African-American church and participated in a bizarre ceremony involving a Jewish prayer shawl.
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" And then he did, delivering a seven-minute string of blistering insults to Trump, calling him an "infantile, bullying man," a "spoiled, misbehaving child," a "charlatan," and a "naked emperor.
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" When the audience chuckles at the anecdote, Sheen asks rhetorically, "Now is that the laughter I can hear across the pond of people laughing at our country about this charlatan?
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Ms. Warren is one of the few high-profile leaders in either party to repeatedly challenge Mr. Trump with clarity and directness, portraying him as both dangerous and a charlatan.
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The question to ask is whether Kim Jong Un, who flamboyantly basked in the world's limelight at the Capella Singapore hotel, is the genuine article or a Mao-suited charlatan.
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Nor, at a time when the United States has elected a charlatan as president, is it the moment to overlook the fact that Fidel was a serious and uncorrupt politician.
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All this means that if you get a conservative economist who isn't a charlatan and crank, you are more or less by definition getting someone with no influence on policymakers.
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He appears in the Kittredges' dreams and in flashbacks that portray the making of this charlatan (with a smitten M.I.T. student, nicely played by Chris Perfetti, as his Henry Higgins).
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Skincare is an infamously charlatan business; there is a lot of snake oil and miracle tonics crowding the periphery, but luckily James Welsh is here to cut through the artifice.
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Also, the principal antagonist of the agronomist-charlatan Lysenko was Andrei Zhdanov's son (and Stalin's short-term son-in-law), rather than the man who gave his name to Zhdanovshchina.
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Absent Trump, Cruz would've consolidated the charlatan wing of the party, and the influencers now propping up Trump would be doing the same for Cruz, only with somewhat less establishment resistance.
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In a huge shock, Washington, D.C. went from digesting the words of the Charlatan of the United States, to parsing out one of the more bizarre NFL trades in recent memory.
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"I think mostly people think he's a charlatan and self-promoter (though an intelligent one)," is how William Kristol, the editor of The Weekly Standard, described Mr. Morris in an email.
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Lavrov dismissed the dossier's author, Christopher Steele, as "a fugitive charlatan from MI6" and said the dossier looked like part of a campaign to cause problems for Trump and his allies.
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John Carney: Because child actors can have a lot of very bad habits that are taught to them by acting coaches, these slightly charlatan failed actors teaching kids how to act.
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" Mohamed Karim Haddad, the brother of an acolyte who left for Syria, described Mr. Zerkani "as a charlatan who, for a bad cause, misled youths or men who are socially unstable.
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Having real maple syrup on pancakes will ruin you for the stuff they have on the table at IHOP or Waffle House, and have you calling bullshit on this pigtailed charlatan.
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Ms. De Francesco explains that the word "charlatan" comes from the Italian "ciarlatano," itself probably related to the verb "ciarlare," which means to babble or to go on incessantly without reflection.
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A divisive figure seen by many opponents as a populist charlatan who played fast and loose with the facts and made unrealistic promises, Johnson may struggle to reunite a divided nation.
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Clinton could also be wary of pissing off financial sector donors, and it bears mentioning that rich people all over America hate Elizabeth Warren and regard her as a dangerous economically illiterate charlatan.
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He briefly purports to be a religious one, too, though his fascination with his nemesis Eli seems to stem largely from self-recognition, having seen in his adversary another skilled charlatan and manipulator.
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Onscreen, the character oozes a sort of charlatan charm and confidence that may feel icky to viewers, but really seems to work well on the hundreds of rich, anxious parents he preys upon.
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And one irony here is that while Trump seems to feel he needs a hack or charlatan on the Fed to keep interest rates low, there's actually an intellectually respectable case for it.
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Considering the horrors you'd smell on your daily walks in London, it's understandable that the Victorians, surrounded by diseases with no cure like typhoid, cholera, and tuberculosis, would be taken in by charlatan cures.
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If one can stomach a re-examination of his pre-presidency days, his latter-day turn as a reality-television charlatan was preceded by a long career as a developer drenched in dirty money.
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Biden portrayed Trump as a "charlatan" who had preyed on America's worst ills to gain the Oval Office and was threatening to undo decades of precedent and the alliances that the US has forged.
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CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza on Wednesday called U.S. President Donald Trump an "arrogant charlatan" and criticized his "interventionist rhetoric" in the U.S. leader's Tuesday speech before congress criticizing Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.
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And even if a charlatan like Boris Johnson or an anti-Western leftist like Jeremy Corbyn ends up in Downing Street, Britain's prime minister is constrained by Parliament, public opinion and the wider institutional establishment.
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In the Trump era, where the citizenry is being divided -- torn apart — and American life debased, courtesy of a charlatan posing as the leader of the free world, political art is more important than ever.
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To the sorceress/mother and the convict/charlatan are added a whole host of others, including the old crone Madame Rolland, with her "black book"; the troubadour family Leroux; and the Parisian witch Catherine Monvoisin.
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The only person who enjoys that more than the Democratic base and the press is the president himself, who alternates between seeing the Republican nominee as a charlatan and as a dangerous amplifier for hatred.
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With uncanny regularity, they compared him to a fictional character in satirical Russian literature named Ostap Bender, a charlatan who traveled the country fleecing unsuspecting victims, seeking a score big enough to flee to Brazil.
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"I thought he was a brash mogul who would be rough-tough, but of course as soon as I went to work for him, I discovered that he was really a charlatan," Brown says of Weinstein.
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Mr. Pallone said he feared that the bill could "open up the possibility of some charlatan, fly-by-night, snake-oil drug company or manufacturer" promoting the use of drugs whose safety had not been established.
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Theater Basel in Switzerland commissioned this zany rewrite of Molière's comedy about the unmasking of a lecherous charlatan from the German electropop musician and writer PeterLicht, and cast it with eight of the company's superb actors.
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Psychoanalysis had already been discredited as a medical science, Crews wrote; what researchers were now revealing was that Freud himself was possibly a charlatan—an opportunistic self-dramatizer who deliberately misrepresented the scientific bona fides of his theories.
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While Cézanne and van Gogh were down in Provence analyzing mountains and apples, up in Paris artists allied with a strange writer/spiritualist/charlatan named Joséphin Péladan turned away from observation and toward over-the-top religious fantasy.
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He obviously wants to stabilize himself at the lectern for fear of falling over, and his rigid upper body is like that of a litigious courtroom charlatan strapped in a neck brace checking to see if people believe him.
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Other times I think she's a bit of a charlatan who produces more Kusama paintings than the world needs and stoops to conquer with mirrored "Infinity" rooms that attract hordes of selfie-seekers oblivious to her efforts on canvas.
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But if we don't practice these tough habits of thought, we cannot hope to solve the truly serious problems that face us – and we risk becoming a nation of suckers, up for grabs by the next charlatan who comes along.
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Mohamed Karim Haddad, whose brother was recruited to fight in Syria, told officials that Zerkani was "a charlatan who manipulates young men or socially awkward men, for the wrong cause and probably for his own business," according to the Washington Post.
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The dishonesty of Republicans on health care and other issues, from voter fraud to abortion, allowed the party to be taken over by a shameless charlatan, an interloper who won the party's nomination and presidency by promising voters the sky.
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Just as the Wizard of Oz was eventually exposed as a charlatan, the curtain protecting Trump might come tumbling down if something in his personal life or professional career clearly demonstrates that he is not what he pretends to be.
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If you want to make it more difficult for Dominic Cummings and The Charlatan to scrape data from Government sources to help them turn our democracy into a Turkey-on-the-Thames can I suggest you turn off cookies here?
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In 1937, a journalist named Grete De Francesco published a volume called "Die Macht des Charlatans," or "The Power of the Charlatan," a history of the quacks and mountebanks that roamed Europe in the Middle Ages and early modern period.
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"To think that the safety net of affordable housing in N.Y.C. is going to be at the mercy of a charlatan is alarming," Ritchie Torres, a Bronx councilman and the chairman of New York City Council's Committee on Public Housing.
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It was Molière's dramatization of the Don Juan legend that served as the basis for Mozart's "Don Giovanni"; much later, the great actor Emil Jannings gave the definitive screen treatment of "Tartuffe," Molière's famous charlatan, in F.W. Murnau's 1926 silent classic.
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Most of the evening's bright spots were quieter, less bedazzled affairs, like a marionette act from Justo Thaus, the Grand Carlini, or a merry linked rings routine from Charlie Frye, the Eccentric, or some dumb jokes from Dana Daniels, the Charlatan.
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In its own way it is as damaging to the perception of American Muslims as the overt prejudice espoused by the loudmouth, firecracker-flinging charlatan who currently and jaw-droppingly remains the prohibitive favorite to win the Republican Party's nomination.
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Krauthammer gave mixed reviews to President Donald Trump, questioning his "loud and bombastic" approach to the job and calling him a charlatan while praising actions such as withdrawing from the Paris climate accord and nominating Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court.
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It's hard to imagine there wasn't a faction hoping she'd fail, for any number of reasons — because she's a woman, because she's a beautiful woman, because she's married to Donald Trump, a man many regard as a charlatan at best, dangerous at worst.
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If they really wanted to get to the bottom of the Facebook controversy, they would have to implicitly acknowledge that climate-change denial is crankery and Glenn Beck is a charlatan, and sacrifice the political upside: incensing conservatives by alleging a scandal.
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"He must've known that in a room full of actual conservatives as opposed to in front of his screaming adoring, deluded, antisemitic, racist, idiot fans, that he'd be taken to task and further reveal what a hypocritical charlatan he is," he said.
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Cris Mazza is a professor of creative writing, director of the Program for Writers at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and the author of more than a dozen books—including novels, short story collections, and the forthcoming, Charlatan: New and Selected Stories.
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Some of us have argued that this approach hasn't worked in this election cycle, and that we in the media (particularly some in cable television) have enabled a charlatan by handing him the microphone and not adequately fact-checking what he says.
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"Trump has severe attention problems and simply cannot take in complex information — he will be unable to practice for these debates," said Mr. Schwartz, who was the subject of a New Yorker profile last month that portrayed Mr. Trump as a charlatan.
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That was why many activists and voters swallowed their own reservations about the sincerity of his commitment to their causes, and brushed aside concerns from many fellow Republicans that they were cutting a deal with a charlatan who would inevitably sell them out.
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When Jumbo, an investment elephant, gives birth to Dumbo, the calf with ears large enough to use as wings, the circus attracts the attention of a big-city, Walt Disney-like charlatan, V.A. Vandevere (Michael Keaton), and his trapeze-artist paramour Colette Marchant (Eva Green).
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The Transcendence Orchestra – Modern Methods for Ancient RitualsPanda Bear – A Day with the Homies EPNPVR – 33 33Dungeon – 4Holy Shit – You Made My Dreams Come TrueAldous Harding – Party Jill's university newspaper was called The Charlatan, so in a Lynchian fever-dream way, this conversation was inevitable.
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We have been called 'stupid,' 'weak,' 'a joke' and 'pathetic,' all by our own president," Villalba continued, adding that he was one of the "only Republican elected officials in the country to plead with the American voters to abandon this charlatan prior to his election.
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If you think Johnson is a charlatan and a cad, a posh populist, an Eton elitist through and through, then voting Labour (and thus supporting Corbyn) would seem meaningful in the same way that voting to "take back control" seemed satisfying and significant in 2016.
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Charlatan gurus prescribing dangerous feats to gullible followers were Carney's white whale, but Hof inspired the author so profoundly that he made him the subject of his latest book, What Doesn't Kill Us: How Freezing Water, Extreme Altitude, and Environmental Conditioning Will Renew Our Lost Evolutionary Strength.
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A final view, more congenial to the Sanders and Jacobin left, is that while Trump himself is a repugnant charlatan, his supporters seek in him a salve for the real economic problems of blue-collar displacement and the bait-and-switch promises of the American dream.
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Just in case you happen to be the sort of ignominious charlatan who has never been graced with the beefy stylings of Hamburgirl Z, they happen to be a 15-person hamburger-themed girl group that is produced by the chairman of the West Japan Hamburger Association.
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As starvation spread in the wake of Stalin's collectivization, particularly in 21953-220, Lysenko, a semi-educated charlatan, attacked well-known geneticists who were trying to develop new hybrid crops that could solve the problem of low productivity, much of it caused by Stalin's brutal policies.
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This is the premise of a prescient book from 1841, "Extraordinary Delusions and the Madness of Crowds," by the Scottish journalist Charles MacKay, which documents in extensive detail the moments when entire societies have set aside their own good judgment under the spell of a charlatan.
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After the two fell out, Kirby, his former chief collaborator and one of the great comics artists, viciously caricatured Mr Lee as Funky Flashman, a slick, mercenary charlatan whose sycophantic sidekick, Houseroy, was seemingly based on Roy Thomas, Mr Lee's protégé and successor as Marvel editor-in-chief.
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"This election offers a stark choice between an unstoppable champion for working families and an unstable charlatan who made his fortune scamming them," said Lee Saunders, president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, who also serves as chairman of the AFL-CIO's political committee.
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Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) researchers monitored this Arabic ISIS-Twitter account network for a full week, and tracked the tactics and content of these account showing strong signs of automation and semi-automation following the death announcement of the "Caliphate's" first charlatan-in-chief of a leader, al-Baghdadi.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads There was a time in the 225s when you could divide the art world between those who thought Julian Schnabel was a great or important artist — which aren't necessarily the same thing — and those who hated him and thought he was a maladroit charlatan.
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Interlaced with exquisite humor and inventive use of the English language (rooted in the Trinidadian vernacular), this story about a frustrated writer who turns from being a failed primary school teacher to a charlatan healer, and later to a popular politician, will open your eyes to what prose can do.
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For Nawaz's detractors, of whom there are many, it's this very chameleon quality, this at-homeness in disparate roles and spaces, that has earned him a reputation as something of a charlatan, a preening opportunist cashing in on his own sensational travails by means of society's abundant anti-Muslim bias.
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In my preview of the event, I had outlined the fair's aims as articulated by one of the cofounders (all curators and artists), Jennie Lamensdorf, which was to help organize people's responses to the election of a dangerous charlatan to the presidency, rather than allowing social media to shape those responses.
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Graham's reverence for Picasso was expressed through a series of middling, quasi-Cubist paintings of still lifes and other subjects, but by the late 1940s he had gone rogue and denounced his former idol as a charlatan, even as he was siphoning off the streamlined curvaceousness of Picasso's Neoclassicism for his own explorations of the figure.
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The wealthiest society on earth is currently subjected to the chaotic rule of a mean and vulgar charlatan who refined the manipulation of humanity through a TV show that was a ratings smash in its first season, continued under his guidance for more than a decade, and relied on the cruelty of whimsical humiliation for its frisson.
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" Having already denounced, in his personal letters, the painter widely considered the king of 20th-century art ("charlatan" was his epithet of choice), Graham (again, from Wilkin's essay) "expanded on his objections, castigating artists for emphasizing […] formal concerns: 'Young painters, nowadays, are wont to talk about pure form, plastic values, plane-tension, texture, space, design and whatnot.
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Rand PaulRandal (Rand) Howard PaulGraham promises ObamaCare repeal if Trump, Republicans win in 2020 Conservatives buck Trump over worries of 'socialist' drug pricing Rand Paul to 'limit' August activities due to health MORE (R-Ky.) called Jon Stewart a "disheveled charlatan" amid a feud between the lawmaker and the comedian on a recently passed bill to renew the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund.
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" He added: "Neurosis and psychosis have us believing that quartz crystals can make a sick person well; that by humbling yourself and giving yourself over to a higher power, you can follow 12 steps to salvation; that a greedy charlatan who wears white robes holds the keys to wisdom; that the rantings of a self-appointed messiah are God's truth.
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" That was Jeff Koons, genius or charlatan, depending on whom you talk to — an artist known for elevating children's toys and vacuum cleaners to the stature of the Greek gods, sitting in the office area of his 2200,240-square-foot studio meditating on his latest project: a multifaceted series he has been working on under conditions of the utmost secrecy for well over a year, entitled "Masters.
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The room echoes with every cough and indecipherable provocation from the people in the rafters, Hannity and Trump unmoved by it all, sitting there looking the only way they ever do—Hannity, a squinty charlatan with a head like an elephant hoof, leaned back in his chair like he might at any moment unbuckle his pants; Trump, a Ziploc bag of microwaved mortadella, all wild hyperbole and unverifiable pronouncements delivered with the nonchalance of a man folding laundry.
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He likened Gulen's followers to ISIS, which has repeatedly bombed targets within Turkey, and the Kurdish separatist movement PKK, which is listed as a terror organization by the US. READ: Putin and Erdogan meet after damaging rift Erdogan: FETO the same as ISIS, PKK "Those who follow the Pennsylvania-based charlatan (Gulen) who sold his soul to the devil, or Daesh, which shed Muslim blood, or the PKK that also has shed blood for 30 years to divide the country and the nation, will all lose in the end," Erdogan was quoted as saying, referring to ISIS by its Arabic acronym.
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Mr. Hamilton's novels include "The Love of Rich Women" (1980), about a poor young man who falls for a rich young woman and encounters complications with her family; "The Charlatan" (1985), about a man from a rugged background who marries well and is about to inherit his wife's fortune when, instead of dying as anticipated, she asks for a divorce; and "The Lap of Luxury" (1988), "a witty moral tale set in the New York art world," as Susan Cheever described it in The New York Times Book Review, about a poor painter who marries into fabulous wealth.
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