10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CLAPTRAPPERY»
Discover the use of
claptrappery in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
claptrappery and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
Is it not a strange theory that for thousands of generations this world lived entirely
irrationally, that until within a few years there was no reason and integrity in
human institutions but only claptrappery, and that they existed not by any deep
law of ...
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Logic, Meaning and Computation: Essays in Memory of Alonzo ...
The nominalist does not presume to restrict the scientist. The scientist may use
platonistic class constructions, complex numbers, divination by inspection of
entrails, or any claptrappery that he thinks may help him get the results he wants.
Alonzo Church, C. Anthony Anderson, Michael Zelëny, 2001
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English Words with Native Roots and with Greek, Latin, Or ...
Coleridge: cloudlet; frightenable, worshipable; embitterment, embreastment;
claptrappery, greenery, leggery, moonery, parrotry, roguery; friendism,
nothingism; shallowist; deathify; cloudage, houseage; punlet, toadlet; saleability,
worshipability ...
George Albert Nicholson, 1916
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On the History and Use of the Suffixes -ery (-ry), -age, and ...
36. chattery 'chatting' 1789, 1813. cheatery 'the practice of cheating' 1532 +
chinchery 'miserliness, avarice' 1386 —1440 claptrappery 1820 cliquery 'cliquism
' 1859 clownery 'the behaviour of a country c.' 1589—1694; 'the performance of a
...
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Homiletic Review: An International Magazine of Religion, ...
Manifestly it is not, so far as intelligent criticism is concerned, more fluency nor
more vivacity at the expense of solidity and strength that is demanded, when a
lack of attractiveness is complained of ; least of all is it the claptrappery of the ...
... how it is that men and Masons are not satisfied with the sound and
unequivocal teaching of the Symbolic Degrees, but finding them to cloy on the
palate, go off in search of pernicious sweets, empty "tinkling cymbals," and
claptrappery. Why?
Here he is beyond rivalry — the " Professor Harrington " of stage effects and
claptrappery in general. Anthony Trollope hits the popular taste with very clever
facility, eminent in no one gift, but average and sufficient in all, a good-natured ...
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Fame and Sorrow: Colonel Chabert, the Atheist's Mass, La ...
... U's stood in place of V's, and vice versa, according to the rules of our ancient
orthography. In order to bring down the pride of those who think the world is daily
growing cleverer and wittier, and that modern claptrappery surpasses everything
...
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La Comédie Humaine of Honoré de Balzac: Fame and sorrow. ...
... of V's, and vice versa, according to the rules of our ancient orthography. In
order to bring down the pride of those who think the world is daily growing
cleverer and wittier, and that modern claptrappery surpasses everything that went
before, ...
Perhaps those writers who expend ingenuity in devising a hundred formulae for
different plants are as much open to criticism as the vendors of those marvellous
invigorators of which we read so much, for their efforts savour of claptrappery.
3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CLAPTRAPPERY»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
claptrappery is used in the context of the following news items.
The derision of madmen
Being dedicated atheists they may have remained unmoved, not given a damn about all this mystical claptrappery, but at a deep level they ... «Calcutta Telegraph, Jan 15»
The truth behind politicians' claims
Stretching statistics from the past to try and twist today's truth into a 'good story' is political claptrappery.” Who is correct? Zuma or Kohler ... «Independent Online, Jun 14»
The Travails of a Pagan in a Dual Faith Household
... it's core mystery, no less, into a DIY pagan ceremony any better than pagans who present New Age claptrappery as Native American ritual? «Patheos, May 14»
