| 单词 | confidence game |
| 例句 | He lectured on the theory and practice of deception; on the confidence game for law enforcement; on concealment for the C.I.A. David Mamet on Ricky Jay, a Great Astonisher and ‘Truest Friend’ 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z A portrait is a confidence game, and some artists are so intent on fooling the viewer that the “almost as if” disappears. Review | The first major Hans Holbein exhibition in the U.S. shows us the sobering reality of raw power 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z Deep down, writing isn’t all that different from the confidence game: It’s the art of using words to manipulate people’s thinking and emotions. Review | The greatest prison escape ever? ‘The Confidence Men’ tells a sensational true story. 2021-06-15T04:00:00Z Writing fiction is to no small degree a confidence game, and “Leading Men” casts a spell right from the start. ‘Leading Men,’ a Novel About Tennessee Williams and His Lover, Casts a Spell From the Start 2019-02-12T05:00:00Z And these scammers are professional and very good at this confidence game. Perspective | Hints From Heloise: Save yourself a trip to the bank 2021-04-10T04:00:00Z “Wiedeman depicts the giant sums of money churning through WeWork as the embodiment of a confidence game that flourished in the last decade.” 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z Wiedeman depicts the giant sums of money churning through WeWork as the embodiment of a confidence game that flourished in the last decade. ‘Billion Dollar Loser’ Recounts WeWork’s Big Dreams and Its Harsh Wake-Up Call 2020-10-21T04:00:00Z The ideas of truth and confidence games are underscored here as he lists off the various rumors surrounding Claire. ‘Outlander’ Season 2, Episode 11: Off With His Head 2016-06-18T04:00:00Z People purchase them because they think the value will appreciate “so obviously the confidence game will only work as long as people keep buying.” How Evergrande’s downfall signaled China’s property crisis 2023-08-31T04:00:00Z It’s a confidence game, and you will lose money. Traveling soon? Look out for these new tourism scams 2023-08-28T04:00:00Z But if the banking business is ultimately a confidence game, the game ended quickly. Why Did Silicon Valley Bank Collapse? 2023-03-11T05:00:00Z The British psychological thriller follows the emboldened woman down the rabbit hole of false identities and confidence games. Now streaming: ‘Chloe’ on Amazon Prime, ‘Loot’ on Apple TV+ and more 2022-06-22T04:00:00Z “This was really an ageless, classic confidence game that has played out over modern social media,” Assistant U.S. He had investigated fraud for the government. Then he fell victim to it. 2022-02-18T05:00:00Z To Melville, the teacher explains, everything in America is a confidence game. What if the Great American Novelist Doesn’t Write Novels? 2020-12-15T05:00:00Z “It’s diminished confidence beyond the Victorian border and the recovery is a confidence game. So, maintaining business and household confidence is going to be critical.” Australian PM seeks to delay parliament due to COVID-19 2020-07-18T04:00:00Z Ominously, in the 20th century, the confidence game became married to politics. Trump and Musk: Two unstable geniuses compared 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z And the cool and collected may simply be good at the confidence game. Review | Why do we assume people are telling us the truth? 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z The Sacklers have always excelled at the confidence game of marketing, and it struck me that the greatest trick they ever pulled was to write the family out of the history of the family business. The Family That Built an Empire of Pain 2017-10-23T04:00:00Z The last one, the role of techie fashion in advancing confidence games, is today’s subject. The ‘trust me’ theatrics of tech’s T-shirts and turtlenecks 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z “Golf is such a confidence game,” Ko said. You say Lydia Ko had a bad year in 2017? Funny, she sees it differently - Golf Digest 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z But what’s absolutely true is that if the global economy — and stock market — is a confidence game, confidence is clearly winning. Navigating a Breathtaking Level of Global Economic Change 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z “The confidence game is just a game,” Halperin said in a February episode. Showtime’s “The Circus” Offers Dark Lessons in Horse-Race Journalism 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z Historically, we’ve often admired, if not identified with, someone intent on playing and successfully beating the system, whether at a confidence game or through criminal activity. This is not about Donald Trump: The age of decline, apple pie and America’s chosen suicide bomber 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z We’ve heard it all before: women need to up our confidence game. It's OK to feel insecure sometimes – confidence lapses aren't character flaws | Jessica Valenti 2016-02-17T05:00:00Z “This is more of a confidence game,” Jones said. In an up-and-down season, Kirk Cousins takes another step forward 2015-11-29T05:00:00Z Simply put, the coming election is not likely to be an ideological battle, but a confidence game. Out With the Old 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z But kicking is a confidence game, and misses in big games can linger. Seahawks vs. Cardinals: Media marveling at Seattle's blowout, Wilson-to-Willson, debating Marshawn Lynch 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z Well, at least not yet as the confidence game continues to appeal to those on the right side of a one way trade. Why Europe Is Sick Right Now 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z In the best sense, it's a confidence game. Why every household should have its own currency 2014-02-14T17:07:26Z It sounds like some sort of confidence game. About Mitt Romney's $5 Trillion Tax Cut 2012-10-05T02:44:30Z The author added: "That's the nature of confidence games - it becomes impossible to tell where the truth ends and deception begins." DealBook Column: A Con Man Who Lives Between Truth And Fiction 2012-06-26T01:23:44Z As such, it won an immediate victory: scoring big in its confidence game with re-invigorated international markets Thursday. Europe's Debt Deal: How Long Will the Good Feelings Last? 2011-10-28T01:06:02Z Recovery is, in part, a confidence game: businesses and consumers need to be confident enough of a sustained recovery to invest. Ezra Klein: How Europe could steer the 2012 election 2011-10-03T23:15:07Z This is a confidence game and once we get beyond this and look back at the economics, the market is going to move higher.” U.S. Stock Futures Climb After S&P 500’s Biggest Loss Since 2008 2011-08-09T11:44:02Z They played their confidence game with the King of Terrors. The Judicial Murder of Mary E. Surratt 2011-05-24T02:00:12.183Z My conversation with Mr. Israel left me with a sense that at some level Wall Street, too, is a confidence game. DealBook Column: A Con Man Who Lives Between Truth And Fiction 2012-06-26T01:23:44Z Because let's be honest about another reality of Thursday's development: it was only the most recent play by governments in a global confidence game that's certain to shift and surge again before it's all over. Europe's Debt Deal: How Long Will the Good Feelings Last? 2011-10-28T01:06:02Z “Really, Senator Burns,” said Miss Greene, “this is no—ah—confidence game, I assure you.” Her Infinite Variety 2011-04-01T02:00:30.590Z It was soon evident that he was playing upon the express company a well-worn confidence game, which has been attempted probably every time a large robbery has occurred in the last fifteen years. Mississippi Outlaws and the Detectives Don Pedro and the Detectives; Poisoner and the Detectives 2011-03-28T02:00:28.167Z And this is the kind of a confidence game the professional politicians have been playing with the workers of all nations all these years. Labor and Freedom But this to-day was a real confidence game as you might say. The Reclaimers Few of the white gamblers, who had come to fleece the Indians with their special style of confidence games, cared to risk their coin against Indian ponies or wampum. Chiquita, an American Novel The Romance of a Ute Chief's Daughter Whether to be 'touted' was to be held up, buncoed, or drugged and robbed, I had no definite notion; but I took it to be a confidence game of some sort and despised it accordingly. Checkers A Hard-luck Story He specializes in confidence games with a technical angle. The Blue Ghost Mystery And Moss, recalling Congdon's description of the Haneys' material condition, answered: "Very well, if you insist; but I really feel as though I had played a confidence game on you." Money Magic A Novel Was it drink, or gambling, or a confidence game? Dr. Sevier The fellow who had so cleverly played the confidence game upon him was the same one who awaited his appearance in Wall Street, and afterwards shadowed him up Broadway. The Boy Broker Or, Among the Kings of Wall Street To have a female confidence game played on a man would leave less of a sting than to be bilked by a male. Peck's Sunshine Being a Collection of Articles Written for Peck's Sun, Milwaukee, Wis. - 1882 A clever gang of thieves get into the place by working some particularly cool and daring confidence game. The Albert Gate Mystery Being Further Adventures of Reginald Brett, Barrister Detective In connection with the Latent Fingerprint Section there is maintained a general appearance file of many confidence game operators. The Science of Fingerprints Classification and Uses "That doesn't make much difference if the miners once get it into their heads that the girls are being used to put over a confidence game on them," Helen argued authoritatively. Campfire Girls in the Allegheny Mountains or, A Christmas Success against Odds He knew he was honest himself, and did not once suspect that the agreeable young man was playing the confidence game upon him. The Boy Broker Or, Among the Kings of Wall Street A neurosis is a confidence game that we play on ourselves. Outwitting Our Nerves A Primer of Psychotherapy You have been trying a bold confidence game. Andy Grant's Pluck That was the only time I ever played the confidence game in my life, and my conscience has approved of it ever since. The Adventures of a Forty-niner An Historic Description of California, with Events and Ideas of San Francisco and Its People in Those Early Days This was no strong-arm crime, but a high class confidence game, and the important thing was to quickly lay hands on Hobart. The Case and the Girl The statute forbidding the use of the "confidence game" in obtaining property sends to prison a constant stream of persons who, until a few years ago, would have been guilty of no crime. Crime: Its Cause and Treatment "I rather imagine that was a little confidence game." Drusilla with a Million It commenced with robbing birds' nests and orchards, and ended with the confidence game for which he was last sent to jail. Two Boys and a Fortune, or, the Tyler Will That man has been wanted for a year for putting over a confidence game. The Sheridan Road Mystery |
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