humbuggery

Humbuggery has nothing to do with universal life.

It is in communities like this that Jesuit humbuggery flourishes.

Load of humbuggery on this thread.

-- (1988) Humbuggery and manipulation: the art of leadership.

The hoopla and humbuggery carnival goers have long loved, they say, does not sit well with devotees of Disney.

As usual, Harry knew how to hurl the proper spear through all the hot-air humbuggery that passes for civilization.

"Humbuggery of the Theosophists"

Fantasy elements are minimal; other than telepathy, most instances of "magic" are dismissed or exposed as humbuggery.

Annie dreaded failure, but she knew, too, that entrance into Radcliffe and obtaining a degree without special favors or allowances for Helen's handicaps would dispose forever of charges of humbuggery.

Between the posturing antics of its leading man and the humbuggery of its charlatan director, the show can only be headed for "molto disastro, my darlings," as one perceptive player puts it.

HUMBUGGERY AND MANIPULATION The Art of Leadership.

"The destroyers of 'life's lie,' as 'The Wild Duck' demonstrates, are judged insensitive at least, if not malign," Mr. Bailey darkly concludes "Humbuggery and Manipulation," his study of the techniques of leadership.

"The physician is only allowed to think he knows it all, but the quack, ungoverned by conscience, is permitted to know he knows it all; and with a fertile mental field for humbuggery, truth can never successfully compete with untruth."

I mixed it up rather too much; and so all that description of the attitude, as a key to the humbuggery of the article, was entirely lost, for nobody but me ever discovered and comprehended the peculiar and suggestive position of the petrified man's hands.

Perhaps the public's faith in these stock market cybergods might not be grounded - but that merely reminds us that humbuggery plays a role in the history of the real Kansas, and that it was a major theme in the work of L. Frank Baum.

There were however tensions between the two societies, and on March 26, 1882 Dayananda spoke about the Humbuggery of the Theosophists, Olcott replied to Dayanandas charges in The Theosophist in July 1882 in an article titled Swami Dayanand's Charges.