| 单词 | claptrap |
| 例句 | His eyes were soft and irisless and brown, and suddenly I saw Roskus watching me from behind all his whitefolks’ claptrap of uniforms and politics and Harvard manner, diffident, secret, inarticulate and sad. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z I guessed I was getting a little tired of all this claptrap. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z A recluse story contained more sense, but Royal thought the army part was claptrap. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z A tiny idea was beginning to worm its way into Grayson’s head; he could barely feel it as it brushed by all the claptrap in his brain. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z My socks balled up on the hardwood floor made a greater statement than any of their hokey claptrap with the carefully matted frames and big curly signatures in the lower left-hand corners. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z “It’s all a lot of claptrap,” said Uncle Vernon, glaring at Harry with piggy little eyes. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Despite wrapping up their objections to aspects of musical modernism in pseudo-scientific claptrap about ‘degeneracy’, the Nazi leaders’ distrust of certain forms of music was nothing more than crude, beer-cellar racism. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Whatever mystical claptrap he has embraced since the 1970s, he has never lost his verve. The Bruce Lacey Experience - review 2012-07-06T17:08:31Z “Devotion,” the story, is weak sauce, too: folktale claptrap about an orphan for whom ice skating “is pure feeling” and who has a tempestuous affair with a Svengali-like older man. Patti Smith’s ‘Devotion’ — equal parts exasperating and inspiring 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z “In the galleries the enthusiasm was unreserved; in the stalls and boxes, people smiled a little at the hackneyed sentiments and claptrap situations, and enjoyed the play as much as the galleries did.” | 'The Shaughraun': Hiss at the Villain, Cheer the Vagabond 2011-05-10T21:35:45Z Godswallop: Televangelist claptrap, like Pat Robertson blaming the Haitian earthquake on “a pact with the Devil.” Style Invitational Week 1311: Nextra! Nextra! 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z Mr. Cattelan’s exhibition is in many ways the exact opposite of the funhouse of participatory claptrap that Carsten Höller, his fellow traveler in relational aesthetics, has mounted at the New Museum. Art Review: Maurizio Cattelan at the Guggenheim - Review 2011-11-03T22:20:09Z Trump won the 2016 election, Nichols writes, because “he connected with a particular kind of voter who believes that knowing about things like America’s nuclear deterrent is just so much pointy-headed claptrap.” ‘The Death of Expertise’ Explores How Ignorance Became a Virtue 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z The 60th anniversary shock – or lack of it – will at least be some consolation for listeners who feared their ears were about to be offended with some sensationalised claptrap. The Archers 60th anniversary storyline falls flat 2011-01-04T11:32:53Z There’s 30 minutes’ worth of Napoleon Hill babbling his claptrap on YouTube, and it’s well worth a look. But I’m a good Mormon wife 2012-06-01T23:00:00Z Even though it's romantic claptrap I thought it was brilliant. The Good Old Days: two Libertines fans share their stories 2010-08-27T15:19:00Z He’s a Big Man on a Mission World Wrestling Entertainment continues its effort to meld violent sport with gooey, throwback family comedy in the claptrap road movie “Knucklehead.” | 'Knucklehead': He?s a Big Man on a Mission 2010-10-21T22:59:00Z He goes into Kakutani mode, imagining her racing to review a pile of books: “Jonathan Franzen and ‘The Corrections,’ drivel, claptrap. Bowen Yang of ‘S.N.L.’ Is a Smash. And a Mensch. 2020-01-25T05:00:00Z In other words, it’s more of the same paranoid claptrap, substantiated with yet another recitation of the same tired anecdotes. Campus PC panic is getting ridiculous: Here’s what a “trigger warning” really looks like — and what it does for students 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z Full of deftly choreographed shootouts and comically macho stand-offs, Jack Ryan is diverting claptrap just as long as you disengage your brain. Jack Ryan: John Krasinski’s eyebrows out act John Krasinski 2018-08-25T04:00:00Z The film is pretentious claptrap woven into a script so full of gaping holes that the characatures populating it nearly tumble out of the screen in confusion. Does ‘Three Billboards’ Say Anything About America? Well … 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z So the company line is the usual developer claptrap, exploiting the employment card. Critic’s Notebook: Opposition Keeps Mounting to LG Project on the Hudson 2014-04-09T21:20:26Z I do not want to hear any more of this claptrap and nonsense from you. Ray Bradbury investigated for communist sympathies 2012-08-30T11:45:03Z Faster than you could say “Pizzagate,” the label has been co-opted to mean any number of completely different things: Liberal claptrap. It’s time to retire the tainted term ‘fake news’ 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z He adds to this older performance a new one as Mishima himself, dressed in military garb and shouting nationalist claptrap. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z George Bernard Shaw's unflattering verdict was that he was "one of the greatest masters of claptrap that ever lived". Ebooks roundup: Fifty Shades, fashion for dystopias and a Jubilee read 2012-05-31T14:01:46Z Modern life is such a clutter of claptrap that it’s easy to think everything’s only ever getting more madcap. Yesterday’s News 2014-12-03T05:00:00Z But unlike a movie spun off from a novel by Mr. Sparks, the story still remains weightier than mechanical literary claptrap. Review: A Baby in a Boat Changes Everything in ‘The Light Between Oceans’ 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z Professor David Kennedy’s radical approach to gang violence sounded like academic claptrap, but it worked, and it has led to a paradigm shift in urban law enforcement.. Operation Ceasefire and the Unlikely Advent of Precision Policing 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z Girls still contend with a shameful amount of inane claptrap; boys are presumed to enjoy shish-kebabbing foul beasts. Fiction for older children – review 2013-03-30T15:00:02Z The queasiest moment of this crass, manipulative claptrap is the mention that the bomb was named Little Boy. Review: ‘Little Boy’ is a Fable About Faith Versus Magical Thinking 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z Before I was told my sons were dying, I would have dismissed these words as no more than sentimental claptrap, but now, I hold them close to my heart. Our beautiful sons could die before us 2014-08-16T04:00:00Z Beuys's thought was largely claptrap, too, yet it evidenced a rich and baggy imagination, and he produced some wonderful things. Fabrice Hyber: but is it fruit? 2013-03-26T18:30:10Z To put it kindly, this is an opera of ideas; to put it more accurately, it is high-minded pseudo-intellectual claptrap. The Operas ‘Facing Goya’ and ‘Katya Kabanova,’ at Spoleto 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z But even if I never accepted the claptrap, I did internalize it. The victory I never thought I’d see: How the Supreme Court just saved young gay lives 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z At that point, all I could see was the claptrap—a shrine after the pilgrims have gone home, littered with debris, the mysteries revealed to be a puppet show. An L.A. Artist Who Anticipated Our Trumpian Moment 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z Could such a movie be anything but sentimental claptrap, a prettified picture of a long-gone era when kings behaved like kings and commoners knew their place, shamelessly crafted to lure Oscar voters? "The King's Speech": Colin Firth's Oscar-bound performance 2010-11-24T02:01:00Z For many, that may sound like political claptrap. Column: California's newest senator already proved she's a rare, selfless politician 2023-10-30T04:00:00Z But one is accustomed to hearing this claptrap from the right-wing fringe, not from anyone reaching Johnson’s elevated position in the government. Column: America's retirement system is mediocre. The new House speaker wants to make it downright awful 2023-10-27T04:00:00Z Christie turned instead to standard Republican claptrap about how to “fix” Social Security. Column: Sorry, Democrats — Chris Christie's attacks on Trump don't make him a moderate 2023-07-10T04:00:00Z One is that a Kennedy candidacy that gains any real traction alone will increase the political credibility of anti-vax claptrap, which already has more than enough. Column: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is a threat to your health — and our democracy 2023-06-19T04:00:00Z One doesn’t have to be a fan of Disney to see that as fatuous claptrap. Column: Ron DeSantis and Elon Musk give us a preview of the chaos of a DeSantis presidency 2023-05-24T04:00:00Z As for the assertions by the red states about the illegality of dispensing mifepristone, it’s abject claptrap. Column: A spineless Walgreens bows down to antiabortion crusaders 2023-03-06T05:00:00Z A public defender in Virginia said, "I have never heard of any of that claptrap in my jurisdiction." They called 911 — but cops and prosecutors decided they were lying 2023-01-01T05:00:00Z But what can we do when this pseudoscientific claptrap comes from an agency of a state government, dressed up as a public health recommendation? Column: In threat to public health, Florida publishes bogus anti-vaccine 'study' 2022-10-10T04:00:00Z Put it all together, and one can see that the Republican chorus against student loan relief ranks as one of the most stupendous outpourings of sanctimonious, hypocritical claptrap in recent memory. Column: Republicans attacking student loan relief as a taxpayer burden got degrees on taxpayers' dime 2022-08-25T04:00:00Z But this sentimental claptrap from Republicans has always been empty noise. GOP's post-Roe reveal: Republicans don't think raising children is real work 2022-08-02T04:00:00Z In a memorable scene, he barges into a lecture on anatomy and exposes the professor’s teachings as claptrap. A New Class of Campus Satire 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z Mr. Macron dismissed her assurances as “carabistouilles,” an old-fashioned term that roughly translates to “claptrap” or “nonsense.” Macron and Le Pen Trade Jabs and Lean Left as French Race Heats Up 2022-04-12T04:00:00Z Beyerstein explains that "underneath all the claptrap about child trafficking and white rabbits and mole people, it's the promise that Trump will murder their foes during The Storm." The goal of the GOP's QAnon-influenced "groomer" troll: More political violence 2022-04-11T04:00:00Z What kind of sexist claptrap was the March 30 “Beetle Bailey” comic strip? Opinion | Readers critique The Post: The slap heard around The Post 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z That kind of cowardly claptrap fosters hate and mistrust of institutions and fuels conspiracy mania. Opinion | The FBI’s dereliction of duty 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z "I think talk of constitutional conventions and all sort of academic claptrap frankly to me doesn't seem to be in tune with the guys trying to run this camp." Boris Johnson: Tories feared PM would die with Covid, says Simon Hart 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z "I thought it was two hours of disingenuous, horrible, one sided, self-serving, delusional claptrap," Morgan, who hosts "Good Morning Britain," told "Fox & Friends" on Monday. Meghan Markle's Oprah interview was ‘acting performance of her life’: Piers Morgan 2021-03-08T05:00:00Z The self-proclaimed "Doctor of Democracy," who filled the airwaves with far-right claptrap, was once called "the voice and intellectual force of the Republican Party." Rush Limbaugh's death causes Trump to break his Fox News fast 2021-02-17T05:00:00Z This would be the Republican's worst nightmare: All the anti-government claptrap they've been selling since Ronald Reagan will be revealed as nonsense. Biden must not surrender 2021-02-03T05:00:00Z As for the thugs causing violence, “these despicable fanatics, like it or not, are now in part the face of the Democrats: a snarling bunch of self-righteous, entitled bigots, chanting slogans rooted in pseudo-Marxist claptrap.” Biden denounces violence, but fumbled a chance to defuse riot issue 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z “Despite what he may believe, even the overwhelming majority of the president’s supporters are not interested in this claptrap.” More Than Just a Tweet: Trump’s Campaign to Undercut Democracy 2020-07-31T04:00:00Z Bass is a long shot — one that could pay off big for Biden and a country fed up with divisive claptrap. She's the first Black woman in the U.S. to lead a legislative house. Will Karen Bass soon be VP? 2020-06-29T04:00:00Z It would have been more credible if he had avoided the preposterous claptrap about building bridges and just cited the money and the stock options. Nick Clegg is on the wrong side of history at Facebook | John Naughton 2020-06-20T04:00:00Z An E.U. spokesman said that in peddling such claptrap, Moscow was “playing with people’s lives.” Opinion | The coronavirus gives Russia and China another opportunity to spread their disinformation 2020-03-29T04:00:00Z Since he entered politics in 2015, he has enjoyed immunity through profusion: His nonstop torrent of lies, distortions, slanders and historical claptrap has prevented prolonged scrutiny of anything. Opinion | There is more utility than futility in the impeachment trial 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z I’d rather be late to a story than me led astray or have my time wasted with self-serving claptrap. McConnell poised for win in showdown with Pelosi 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z The conclusion I drew from this debacle wasn’t any sort of “honesty is the best policy” claptrap but a different mantra: Never leave a job again. An extreme introvert bemoans the challenges of office life | Produced by Advertising Publications 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z Because if we’re supposed to take this laughably trite and sexist claptrap seriously, one has to laugh. Review: James Franco's starry ‘Pretenders’ puts its pretentious nonsense right there in the title 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z “What a load of claptrap,” he said, arguing that the suspension was necessary to “set our ambitious agenda for the country.” U.K. Supreme Court weighs whether Boris Johnson broke the law in suspending Parliament 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z He described claims that Parliament was "being deprived of the opportunity to scrutinise Brexit" as "all this mumbo jumbo" and a "load of claptrap". EU has had 'bellyful' of Brexit process - Johnson 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z In an interview with the Guardian, she was unrepentant, describing some of the Walt Disney Company’s financial pledges to employees as “neoliberal claptrap” and calling for Iger to renounce his extraordinary compensation. Disney heir on CEO's $66m pay: 'No one on the freaking planet is worth that' 2019-04-27T04:00:00Z I live in Appalachia and have learned the bitter lesson that the writer of this article is not the only person who feels free to express this kind of libelous claptrap. Opinion | Readers critique The Post: An omitted flag-raiser at Iwo Jima and bad stereotypes about Appalachia 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z The absurdist goings-on may be “a depiction of patriarchy in decline, but don’t expect it to be liberal claptrap,” writes Miller. Essential Arts: Destination Crenshaw, a bold outdoor museum plan inspired by black L.A. 2019-02-02T05:00:00Z Patriarchy is in decline, but Mac isn’t delivering liberal claptrap, instead pushing back against beliefs of all kinds in this age of antagonism. SoCal theater listings, Feb. 3-10: The MLK drama ‘Mountaintop,’ Davis Gaines in ‘Oliver!’ and more 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z Feel free to read the absurdist goings-on as a depiction of patriarchy in decline, but don’t expect it to be liberal claptrap. Review: In 'Hir,' Taylor Mac uses a family drama to depict a changing America 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z “Then they go on to say that they offer education and upward mobility – and that’s neoliberal claptrap,” Disney said. Disney heir on CEO's $66m pay: 'No one on the freaking planet is worth that' 2019-04-27T04:00:00Z Only then will the puzzle disclose, in full, the finely detailed glory of its claptrap. “Glass,” the Last Piece of M. Night Shyamalan’s Superhero Puzzle 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z And he apparently doesn’t buy into all the Trumpian claptrap about fake news from national news outlets either. Recent editorials published in Indiana newspapers 2019-01-01T05:00:00Z How can older women, even fiendishly brainy, internationally celebrated feminist academics, expect respect from, in particular, younger women, if they spout embarrassing, offensive, outdated claptrap? Germaine, your shock-jock musings just alienate today’s young feminists | Barbara Ellen 2018-06-03T04:00:00Z So what should we call the twaddle and claptrap Trump spouts? Opinion | Trump’s not a liar. He’s a madman. 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z I especially like claptrap, which first saw the light in the mid-18th century, according to the Oxford English Dictionary. What’s Another Word for Derp? 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z I doubt that men are consuming much of this wedding claptrap. Calendar Letters: Much ado about the royal wedding 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z Let's see how long a claptrap policy like that would would last when men are affected. Track’s New Gender Rules Could Exclude Some Female Athletes 2018-04-25T04:00:00Z During the course of an hour, I recorded 64 different nuggets of corporate claptrap. From inboxing to thought showers: how business bullshit took over 2017-11-23T05:00:00Z Kelly’s “good faith” historical claptrap would be bad enough in a vacuum. Opinion | President Trump is the master of abhorrent identity politics 2017-11-02T04:00:00Z In Trollope’s “ Phineas Finn, ” a character dismisses a radical politician’s letter outlining a reform agenda: “It is just the usual claptrap . . . only put into language somewhat more grandiloquent than usual.” What’s Another Word for Derp? 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z Having established himself in his home state as a propagandist, he is now peddling his claptrap on the national stage. Opinion | Kris Kobach is the real fraud 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z Piers Morgan isn’t holding back when it comes to Hillary Clinton’s new memoir “What Happened,” which hit shelves Tuesday, calling it a “whiny, self-pitying, deluded load of literary claptrap.” Piers Morgan rips Hillary Clinton’s book as ‘whiny, self-pitying, deluded load of literary claptrap’ 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z And both their video ads on social media and the speeches at their convention were devoid of Marxist claptrap. Colombia’s FARC revolutionaries become a political party 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z This former secretary of Homeland Security quickly got rid of Anthony Scaramucci, a wild-eyed goofus who used his first days as communications director to communicate foul-mouthed claptrap. Gen. John Kelly to the rescue? 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z We also suffer through the endless verbal claptrap that is emanating from the politicos, whether principals or analysts. There’s a little bit of Donald Trump in all of us 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z But, it's good to open the discussion, provided that we give up the claptrap of fixating on "the rich" and have a long-overdue fundamental discussion, like in 1961. White House Proposes Slashing Tax Rates for Individuals and Businesses 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z If there is one area in which the ad succeeded, it was in its ability to unite people across the political spectrum – even Piers Morgan called it “stupefyingly diabolical” and “snowflake claptrap”. From Coke’s flower power to Kendall Jenner’s Pepsi ad – how ads co-opt protest 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z Of course, it’s a bunch of racist, ahistorical claptrap. Opinion | White supremacism is ready to roar 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z One deputies association called it “a ridiculous piece of claptrap.” National police groups add ‘de-escalation’ to new model policy on use of force 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z Governor Henry Wise of Virginia wrote back in 1856 that the “theatrical national claptrap of Thanksgiving” was merely a mask to aid “other causes”. Thanksgiving began to spread liberal values. Let's keep that going | James Nevius 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z That’s one reason why Virginia Governor Henry Wise said he would not support this “theatrical national claptrap that is Thanksgiving.” Thanksgiving Wasn't Always a National Holiday. This Woman Made It Happen 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z He cannot take back all of the racist claptrap he's belched out over the years. Donald Trump Again Won’t Acknowledge Obama Was Born in U.S. 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z Yes, if you believe this kind of claptrap. Health Secrets of the Amish 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z So, learned men and women, separately and/or together, find themselves at the forefront of something labeled “microaggression,” and the current crop of millennials and college-age kids falls into the claptrap. ‘Modern Family,’ reverse microaggression 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z He knew Thanksgiving was a Trojan horse; cranberry sauce and pumpkin pie would get the northerners through the front door, and they’d soon be spreading their “claptrap” throughout the slaveholding south. Thanksgiving began to spread liberal values. Let's keep that going | James Nevius 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z There is an emphasis on the triumph of the human spirit — which he calls “fanciful claptrap” — when, in reality, solidarity is needed. 'Me Without You' controversy puts Hollywood on notice 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z So how many people do you allow to make up fake names and fake cities, and then post this ridiculous claptrap about it being all the progressives' and liberals' faults? In Deeply Divided Chicago, Most Agree: City Is Off Course 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z Call that claptrap "harder news" and "exciting" all you want but I just see such nonsense as a right-wing plot to keep us all stupid. Melissa Harris-Perry Walks Off Her MSNBC Show After Pre-emptions 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z The latest bill only gained the committee’s nod after some moderate Republicans were removed from the panel late last year and replaced with lawmakers friendlier to such ideological claptrap untethered to fiscal or educational reality. Recent Kansas Editorials 2016-02-23T05:00:00Z Leichhardt Federal MP and former crocodile farmer Warren Entsch says few people understand the crocodile industry and "it's easy to bring emotional claptrap". Is it right to steal wild crocodile eggs? - BBC News 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z This country needs constructive solutions to any number of issues, but ideological claptrap, pseudo-intellectual panaceas, hate, disrespect and nonsense one would not tolerate in children are hardly the way forward. Are Americans actually angry? Or are we just told that we are? 2016-02-05T05:00:00Z Republican presidential candidates dismissed the editorial, with New Jersey Governor Chris Christie calling it "typical liberal claptrap." New York Times, in rare front-page editorial, calls for outlawing some rifles 2015-12-05T05:00:00Z Some good comments posted here, but not without the usual share of xenophobic claptrap. 'Tyre call may haunt Mercedes' 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z But he was accused by Tory Eurosceptic MP Sir Edward Leigh of offering "legalistic claptrap" in a bid to avoid a Commons defeat. EU referendum: Commons defeat makes vote 'fairer' - BBC News 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z To many in the scholarly community, the museum seems like an oversize piece of evangelical claptrap. Critics call it evangelical propaganda. Can the Museum of the Bible convert them? 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z Some of it is bound to be claptrap, not to mention the occasional pathetic attempt to evade criticism and navigate the conformities of the day. Let Tim Cook Speak (About Business) 2015-08-25T04:00:00Z The evidence suggests that his alienation took the form of embracing white-supremacy claptrap, and that he wanted to kill black people specifically. From Columbine to Charleston: Will America Ever Learn? 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z With those tweaks, the opposition has nothing to fall back on but ideological claptrap. Recent editorials published in Indiana newspapers 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z You can forget that facts matter, that logic is important, that science is critical, that he who speaks claptrap loudly still speaks claptrap — and that claptrap has no place in reasoned and informed debate. Why serious people discount Fox News 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z But for the rest of us it is claptrap - these killers were not motivated by Buddhism, or Marxism or vegetarianism, but by their own interpretation of Christianity. Is IS on an inevitable path to destruction? 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z When we limit Mr. Cook’s ability to say insightful and timely things about his businesses, as Regulation FD does, it only increases the ratio of claptrap to useful information. Let Tim Cook Speak (About Business) 2015-08-25T04:00:00Z Old Rule 1699 seems to make all the trainers' talk about the importance of a good start just so much claptrap. Things go bump in right for Bayern in Breeders' Cup Classic 2014-11-02T04:00:00Z No man is an island, no one lives in a vacuum, all that philosophical claptrap. I Think the Internet Is to Blame For Renée Zellweger's New Face 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z If some of this sounds like the conventional wisdom of 50 years ago — or even strikes you as retrograde gender-determinist claptrap — that doesn’t necessarily mean delightful’s not for you, says Harvey. Steve Harvey Launches A Site To Help Women 'Become More Dateable' 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z But I think it’s also because we’ve bought the ideological claptrap of the “free market” being separate from and superior to government. Robert Reich Should Pay Attention to EM Forster; Only Connect 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z The FDA and FTC should be gathering their lawyers right now to get this claptrap off the web. Five Ethical Points Now That Ebola Has Entered To The USA 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z I confess that the reporter in me wants to dismiss all this as claptrap: another case of media and political hype that, with a little time and perspective, will self-destruct of its own simplicities. The (millennial) parent trap The Plaid MP then accused Mr Blair of speaking "a huge amount of claptrap" in the lead up to war. MP's 'condescending Iraq claptrap' 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z This is not just socialist claptrap, I don't think – even rabid, possessive individualists, when they all get together, share the rubric of in-group solidarity. Nigel Farage, George Galloway … why we're queuing up to listen to the mavericks 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z And you can spare us the ageist claptrap about Grandpa and his recreation, sonny. The New Old Age Blog: No Sex, Please, We’re on Medicare 2014-02-06T17:54:30Z It’s easy to point a finger at politicians, but let’s be honest--business produces an an outsized contribution to our supply of claptrap. It's Time to Stamp out the Bull 2013-05-24T14:00:46Z Treasurer Wayne Swan labeled their views as "xenophobic claptrap" at the time. Australia Offers Visa for Millionaires 2013-05-06T23:42:10Z A former adviser to Tony Blair has accused Plaid Cymru's parliamentary leader of talking "condescending claptrap" over the situation in Iraq. MP's 'condescending Iraq claptrap' 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z And before anyone throws up their hands and says ‘Keynesian claptrap,’ there is nothing necessarily Keynesian in what I am about to say. Why Austerity Can Be a Dangerous Idea 2013-04-18T11:05:24Z Instead of being duped by the Tories' claptrap about the debt being caused by public spending, we are in favour of redistributing wealth and work, and a lot of state intervention. When Britain stops blaming itself, it can overthrow the existing order 2013-04-16T11:03:42Z So here’s another question: What happens if you just practice one of a cult’s rituals—singing in a church choir, say, or eating peyote–without buying into all the claptrap about its supernatural specialness? Do All Cults, Like All Psychotherapies, Exploit the Placebo Effect? 2013-03-04T21:45:00.453Z The excuse regularly offered is the comparative behaviour of the players, and there's plenty said about how footballers ought to be more like their rugby counterparts, plenty of it ill-informed, classist claptrap. Premier League: 10 talking points from this weekend's action 2013-02-11T09:03:00Z The government could do no less; it seeks to do no more; and all this talk about subjugation is mere claptrap. Slavery: Notes from Scientific American 's Archives on the "Peculiar Institution" 2013-01-07T20:15:05.863Z Dance like a claptrap Come on everybody, get down. Five Ways to Celebrate 'Borderlands 2' Launch Day 2012-09-18T05:43:02Z He called it “movie Indian” claptrap, divorced from modern realities. Montana Tribe Divided on Tapping Oil-Rich Land 2012-08-16T02:23:08Z A week after one Conservative lawmaker criticized the opening ceremony as "leftist claptrap," many hailed the diversity of Britain's winners as the face of modern Britain. Britain awakes to an unfamiliar sensation: winning 2012-08-05T12:45:09Z Thomas disputed that, telling Reuters he felt the justification was "absolute bureaucratic claptrap". Leading equestrian official resigns from London 2012 2012-06-22T12:07:57Z Quantitative claptrap can have the same effect on investors. Polishing the Dimon Principle 2012-05-12T01:10:18Z It was claptrap and, wisely, nobody from Anfield dared say it on the record. Liverpool's Kenny Dalglish plays dumb to leave his dignity in tatters 2012-02-11T18:30:30Z Such as he is, however, he is certainly the most distinguished artistic figure among Englishmen to-day—the only one who has escaped vulgarization and on whom claptrap has no hold. The Letters of Henry James (volume I) 2012-02-08T03:00:15.197Z Puerile in conception and more ridiculous in their bombast than Fielding's burlesque, they have enough rapidity of action, vivacity of claptrap, and extravagance of changing emotions to account for their stage success. Tragedy 2012-01-31T03:00:19.343Z She answered with some folksy claptrap about how she might offer her “friends” a meaningful lesson but didn’t have one yet. Will Paula Deen Have the Last Laugh? 2012-01-18T10:00:33Z That was unimportant claptrap to somebody like him. Hooded Detective, Volume III No. 2, January, 1942 2012-01-04T03:00:28.750Z Yet, despite the pompous claptrap with which Mr. Shei was adorning his project, the magnitude of it appealed to The Phantom’s imagination. The Gray Phantom 2011-11-04T02:00:21.427Z But the time has come for a more constructive approach, not the mindless, contradiction-filled claptrap that seems to be coming out of lower Manhattan. Occupy Wall Street Loves Capitalism’s Pearls: William D. Cohan 2011-10-17T00:25:02Z "Richelieu" is by no means a great poem or free from claptrap, but it has the merit of being written to be spoken and in having its characters designed as parts of the action. Tragedy 2012-01-31T03:00:19.343Z Most of the opposition to it was characterized by sheer loud-mouthed demagogy—cries that the government was too aristocratic to accept the money that was thought good enough for the people, and similar claptrap. Thomas Hart Benton 2011-10-09T02:00:26.053Z As a Roman could never die without a claptrap in his mouth, Drusus was of course prepared with a neat speech on the melancholy occasion. The Comic History of Rome 2011-10-09T02:00:24.507Z He is not a quick worker, and his operas all bear evidence of thought and an avoidance of claptrap effects. Masters of French Music 2011-09-14T02:00:49.960Z All the paraphernalia that had made possible the ghostly illusions, which had frightened others and puzzled him, now lay revealed as nothing but mean claptrap. The Secret Toll 2011-09-12T02:00:26.853Z It is not tragedy, it is hardly serious drama, it is theatrical claptrap; yet Fletcher's poetry is as fine, and, for all that one can see, as sincere as in the scene of genuine passion. Tragedy 2012-01-31T03:00:19.343Z There was no frothy effusiveness, no cheap claptrap in them as is generally the way with students' productions, and for that very reason they were all the more genuinely interesting. Tales From J?kai 2011-09-02T02:00:19.183Z He essayed the writing of some of his tragic episodes in a dark room, "with a candle stuck in a skull;" and such love of claptrap abode with him and qualified most of his work. English Lands Letters and Kings Queen Anne and the Georges 2011-08-29T02:01:10.603Z His actions at the water-hole convinced me he was guilty; all that was necessary was a little claptrap and an appeal to native superstition to force him to confess. The Argus Pheasant 2011-08-27T02:00:20.160Z He wished to see his countrymen and countrywomen all equal: Jack as good as his master, and Jack's master as good as Jack; and neither taking claptrap. Res Judicat? Papers and Essays 2011-08-24T02:00:18.157Z On July 27, Cummings was a guest on "The Colbert Report," offering up some vintage claptrap. The myth of the pilotless commercial plane: Make it stop! 2011-08-04T20:01:00Z He wrote much that was poor and clumsy enough; much, too, that was pure claptrap, and much that was dictated by personal motives and desire for notoriety. Social Rights And Duties Addresses to Ethical Societies Vol II 2011-08-05T02:00:45.557Z Instead of acknowledging this and setting a course for a more equitable distribution of income and wealth, the establishment feeds us with claptrap about us all being in it together. Letters: The end of economic growth 2011-07-26T20:00:03Z Let us put everything else out of our minds as irrelevant claptrap. The Issue The Case for Sinn Fein 2011-07-26T02:00:19.407Z Don’t listen to their cant, and claptrap, and humbug. Crying for the Light, Vol. 1 [of 3] or Fifty Years Ago 2011-07-23T02:00:10.740Z His words are redolent of claptrap and fury, and are a mischievous element in the formation of public opinion. Days and Nights in London or, Studies in Black and Gray 2011-07-12T02:00:29.167Z We've made it to old age in spite of all the claptrap appearing from time to time as scientific findings. Older drinkers 'need lower limit' 2011-06-22T02:09:33Z He hated the scepticism of the Revolution, its negations, its love of claptrap rhetoric and fine phrases, and above all its anarchism. The Victorian Age The Rede Lecture for 1922 2011-05-11T02:00:18.513Z Lacking the energy to grapple with the real difficulties of the situation, Gambetta fancied he might shift them by the claptrap expedient of his dictatorship. History of the Commune of 1871 2011-05-07T02:00:33.113Z On Sunday, Ian Duncan Smith told Sky News that the claims of targets for sanctions were "claptrap" and "conspiracy". Uncovering the scale of jobseekers sanctions 2011-04-11T12:13:02Z The flood of cheap heroics and commonplace patriotic claptrap—it's swept slobbering all over us; there seems no stemming it. Non-combatants and Others 2011-04-11T02:00:11.563Z The welfare secretary, Iain Duncan Smith, popped up in front of the cameras to dismiss the suggestion as "claptrap". Benefits: Department of woeful practices 2011-04-08T14:22:32Z Assertions from the government that Labour's plans were unfunded were "total utter garbage and claptrap", Balls said. Drop VAT rise on fuel, Labour urges government backbenchers 2011-03-14T17:30:00Z There's all those words that seem to mean something and then don't seem to mean anything, that keep shifting to and-505- fro from the deepest significance to the shallowest of claptrap, Socialism, Christianity.... Marriage 2011-02-22T03:00:06.867Z This sort of adolescent claptrap devalues our reality even more than heaven, Valhalla, nirvana and other ancient fantasies do. Is speculation in multiverses as immoral as speculation in subprime mortgages? 2011-01-28T23:15:00.620Z And your claptrap that Chicagoans go to work and don’t complain -- wait, didn’t you take a year off because you were hurt and don’t you whine and yelp at officials more than any other coach? Stop caring about Cutler's image 2011-01-25T18:33:04Z On Fifth Avenue just north of 46th Street, above the claptrap of the usual tourist stores, rise six of Midtown’s most unusual floors, built in 1924 for Finchley, a men’s store. | Early Commercial Architecture: Architectural Souvenirs of Bygone Stores 2010-12-17T23:11:10Z They like hoaxes, humiliations and Oxbridge-style showdowns that let them use words like “claptrap” and “gibberish.” The Medium: The Uses and Abuses of Science Blogging 2010-08-01T07:00:00Z The ludicrous justification for this particular piece of claptrap is that he filmed an advert in Barcelona recently wearing a red strip and a white strip. Football transfer rumours: Luka Modric to Manchester United? 2010-04-29T08:03:00Z The home secretary, Alan Johnson, said the idea of a "broken society" was "claptrap" and the Conservatives were "telling lies" about crime as statistics as they showed violent crime was falling. Election 2010: Campaign shifts to parties' plans for public spending cuts 2010-04-27T13:57:00Z All the old claptraps which he had heard so often of late, and which he took care to rehearse over and over again! A Blot on the Scutcheon You know that I am not tied down to claptrap morality. The Man Who Rose Again In spite of the somewhat claptrap element, the Miserere is impressive from the beautiful and refined music, the kneeling crowd, the deep obscurity that gives it mystery. Glories of Spain Hollow sounding as this commonplace was—claptrap even—it had asserted itself as a mere veil to mask the speaker’s own feelings. Aletta A Tale of the Boer Invasion The theme in every case was a more or less ungrammatical, crude, and utterly banal rendition of the claptrap morality exploited in the cheap story-books. The Long Day The Story of a New York Working Girl As Told by Herself He cultivated a fluent style of platitudes and claptrap at his college debating society, and at the Union, to the committee of which he was elected after prolonged and assiduous canvassing. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, 19 April 1890 I want the grass green or brown, as the case may be; the sky blue, the rocks gray, the soil red; and that the sun should rise and set without any poetic claptrap. Whitman A Study Otherwise the contention that this is no ordinary war but a criminal revolt against civilization, is a mere piece of claptrap and is properly treated as such by the neutrals. England and Germany I thought, so it is only claptrap after all? The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867 These aims seem thoroughly worthy, though the last mentioned, under its original founders, led to mystical claptrap, and to the abuse of the strong superstitious instincts of India. India, Its Life and Thought But it dared an extremely non-popular subject, and treated that subject with an audacious disregard of anything like claptrap. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century In a page and a half of melancholy claptrap broken Katharina endeavours to persuade us that "Such duty as the subject owes the prince, Even such a woman oweth to her husband." William Shakespeare The Governor-General used to say they were vulgar and that it was all claptrap, but that never seemed to me quite fair. Margarita's Soul The Romantic Recollections of a Man of Fifty "I could not write a claptrap novel, or claptrap verses," sighed Lady Mabel. Vixen, Volume III. We shall test for ourselves all the claptrap of the highest-priced novelists.” The Madness of May Nor could his proportion of joy have been greater if he had six floors of his own to survey, instead of one little claptrap back room. Working With the Working Woman It was poor stuff, most of it; coarse jokes, recrimination, crowd-catching claptrap. The Tribune of Nova Scotia A Chronicle of Joseph Howe Shears loved this dry, claptrap way of announcing his triumphs. The Blonde Lady Being a Record of the Duel of Wits between Arsène Lupin and the English Detective A bit of claptrap fools them into exerting their own minds on their bodies, and by the same token the fear of weakness will make the weakness itself. The Blue Wall A Story of Strangeness and Struggle His cry of "romantic claptrap" is merely the reaction of the club armchair to the "drums and tramplings" of the street. The Melting-Pot Bullard's setting of Tennyson's almost lurid melodrama in six stanzas, "The Sisters," has caught the bitter mixture of love and hate, and avoided claptrap climaxes most impressively. Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions My dears, do let me beg of you not to be caught by claptrap. Out in the Forty-Five Duncan Keith's Vow He tried to talk to her about himself, but found it hard to avoid the claptrap with which a man of the world attempts to awaken interest in woman. The Californians They were forced to ask themselves how much of the political faith which they had professed was "real stuff," and how much was "claptrap." Fifteen Chapters of Autobiography The only exception that I can remember is the passage in 'The English Mailcoach,' where his exaggerated patriotism leads him into what strikes me at least as a rather vulgar bit of claptrap. Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) Sir Julius Benedict remarks that 'at this period mechanical dexterity, musical claptraps, skips from one part of the piano to another, endless shakes and arpeggios, were the order of the day.' Story-Lives of Great Musicians It is claptrap and temporary deception of the "Patriotism before Politics" order. Gilbert Keith Chesterton And let me say this: there is a deal of claptrap talked and written and printed and practiced concerning this business of a currency, a subject which when given a right survey presents no difficulty. The President A novel He'd been in conspiratorial work of other kinds, and knew that there was a sound psychological basis for most of what seemed, at first glance, to be mere melodramatic claptrap. Null-ABC "It is just the usual claptrap," said Mr. Low, "only put into language somewhat more grandiloquent than usual." Phineas Finn The Irish Member There are millions of others, if you could only find them, who understand, too—men too great to come out from their studies and talk claptrap to the mob. A People's Man Secrecy and all the various brands of political claptrap that have been admitted in the past are to be shown the door. The Honorable Senator Sage-Brush The retort is on a par with the proposition, and both are claptrap. If Not Silver, What? If it was desired, we determined that it should be bought without extolling claptrap of any kind. The Gold Hunters' Adventures Or, Life in Australia It expresses the thought of the men who aren't taken in by the claptrap of progress. Waste A Tragedy, In Four Acts But a school, with all its disciplinary claptrap reduced to a junk heap! Pee-Wee Harris on the Trail That is no claptrap phrase—although it may sound so; there is a great historical truth behind it. Constructive Imperialism All this talk about an invariable dollar which shall be like the bushel measure or the yard stick is the merest claptrap. If Not Silver, What? Presently he began to weave a tale, sorry enough, with all the ancient claptraps and rusted platitudes. The Ragged Edge A party of moral ideas has reverted to claptrap. Children of the Market Place He liked its gay disregard of all this solemn claptrap. Pee-Wee Harris on the Trail It is a body which does not care at all about party claptrap, but which does care a great deal about a good argument, from whatever quarter it may proceed. Constructive Imperialism His traducers proclaimed him an atheist, and we hear the same claptrap from people now who have not made themselves acquainted with the real history of the man and his times. Drake, Nelson and Napoleon The audience, however, are warned not to expect claptraps, or personal satire. A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character Yet Harwood, who had not struck her as weak or frivolous, had lent himself to-day to a bit of cheap claptrap merely to humble one man for the glorification of another. A Hoosier Chronicle He abhorred claptrap and specious effects, and aimed at high standards of artistic expression. Unleavened Bread Mr. Shaw characterizes Mr. Asquith's phrase, "Germany's infamous proposal," as the "obvious barrister's claptrap." New York Times, Current History, Vol 1, Issue 1 From the Beginning to March, 1915 With Index Even in his walk, his gestures, his manner of shaking off the ash from his cigarette, I could read this whole programme from A to Z, with all its claptrap, dulness, and honourable sentiments. The Duel and Other Stories He attempted no witticisms and indulged in no oratorical claptrap. The Abolitionists Together With Personal Memories Of The Struggle For Human Rights He was free, of course, from the cheap claptrap which abuses the name of democracy by saying that birth, breeding, and education are undemocratic, and therefore to be reckoned against a man. George Washington, Volume II The whole description is of course in the very worst style of critical claptrap. Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama A Literary Inquiry, with Special Reference to the Pre-Restoration Stage in England At tea some one used the word "claptrap." Composition-Rhetoric Even the Historical Method has its own claptrap. Studies in Literature Some claptrap about the Future is worth all these sacred things…. The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth Bayes is represented as greedy of applause, impatient of censure, meanly obsequious, regardless of plot, and only anxious for claptrap. Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook The air was full of liberty, and equal rights, and all the abolition claptrap, and she made marriage a condition of her remaining longer in the house. The Marrow of Tradition Loyalty is a word too often used to designate a sentiment worthy only of valets, advertising tradesmen, and writers of claptrap articles. Samuel Johnson Political claptrap to corral the succulent pie— "issues" to get office. Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 12 Both these opinions may be set down as mere claptrap, witty, but vile. The Gaming Table: Its Votaries and Victims Volume I (of II) A pretty screen of Japanese paper with a sprig of wistaria across it shut off a bureau with a layout of much juvenile claptrap of hair ribbons, side combs, and the worthless treasures of childhood. Star-Dust Bishop —— followed him with a mere piece of missionary claptrap. The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Volume 2 Now it is winter again, with snow over the north, and Anglo-Saxon claptrap in the town. Look Back on Happiness This is a claptrap, and I have no doubt will sell the book. The Voyage of Captain Popanilla The electors are caught by claptrap, noisy declamation, and specious promises, coupled with laudatory comments upon the sovereign people. The Englishwoman in America Of course, everything has its wrong side; and from this number of people let in there comes declamation and claptrap and mob-service, which is much the same thing as courtiership was in other times. Friends in Council — First Series Does he seek popularity by claptraps or other arts? The History of Pendennis Let us for a few moments at least, put pretence and claptrap aside, and recall our own youth. Mankind in the Making Everything looked so tawdry and claptrap: the dirty boards, the grossly painted scenery, the dingy workmen shuffling about grumbling and gruff, ordered and scolded by a vulgar superior. In the Courts of Memory, 1858 1875; from Contemporary Letters For a time the Young Turks, like the Magyars farther west, deceived foreign opinion by claptrap phrases from the repertory of modern democracy. The War and Democracy It was a sketch of unpleasant little minds, avid and curious on somewhat exotic subjects, little minds, awake to rather common claptrap and gossipy pinchbeck interests. The Head of the House of Coombe The instrument, perhaps for the first time in its life, began to vibrate and ring to something besides the claptrap music of the day. The Auction Block What is it but false, misleading, nonsensical claptrap to say that their interests were identical with those of their employer? The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists Do not be deceived by newspaper claptrap, madam. The Inca of Perusalem One by one drop off the truisms, and the Grundyisms, and the pedantries, and all the stillborn claptrap of the marketplace sloughs off. The Return Let other detectives learn the truth by such claptrap means if they choose. The Gold Bag It has recollections with it that must always be dear to a gallant nation; it has certain claptraps in its vocabulary that can never fail to inflame a vain, restless, grasping, disappointed one. The Paris Sketch Book Some of the Tory orators had employed what was then a favourite claptrap. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 5 They seemed to me nothing but the most deplorable claptrap—as indeed they always must to anyone who does not feel the same emotion as the authors felt when they were writing. Crome Yellow In consequence of these fundamental differences, the catchword `equality of opportunity' is meaningless and mere claptrap in the absence of any equality to respond to such opportunity. The Pivot of Civilization The time for joking was past; and he must no longer yield to his love of astonishing people with claptrap and conjuring tricks. The Crystal Stopper A play of this class, which, in the midst of all its absurdities and claptraps, had much of good in it, was called "Le Maudit des Mers." The Paris Sketch Book On their side were claptraps and historical commonplaces without number, the authority of a crowd of illustrious names, all the prejudices, all the traditions, of both the parties in the state. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 5 Life, a powerful but clumsy dramatist, does not reject the most claptrap "situations," which a sophisticated playwright would discard as too obvious. Where the Blue Begins At least they call it heart failure induced by an overdose, or some such claptrap. Secret Adversary Then there is the favorite claptrap of the "natural frontier." The Paris Sketch Book |
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