Word: humbug
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...story's end, Conway glimpses the fact that his inheritance is not all debilitating humbug. From father he has at least unwittingly acquired an urge to be of service. And, in a world of increasingly measured motives and sternly allotted psychological pigeonholes, he can not shake off an India-given sense of the mystery and the marvelous confusion of the world. The Birds of Paradise is a rare literary bird, a novel that in a short space re-creates a man's lifetime. Using exotic backgrounds, it manages to say something useful about growing up-a process that...
...Milo meets a Watchdog job is to prevent people from time (Long ago, the general was: "if there's so much of it, be very valuable," and the thus fell into disrepute.), a Bee (b-e-e-), a Humbug whom loves, and a flock of who bring cliches to life. Juster real respect for the hackneyed he likes to dust it off and you of the time when it shone and really enriched...
...production are here. What the actors should be talking about when they try to persuade Fielding to side with them is a way of life; they must show that they are unable to believe that the grand work of civilizing India which they have undertaken is largely humbug. Instead of their vision, we see only a rather dowdy collection of distasteful bigots...
Curiously, Russell's own philosophy is narrow and utterly lacking the metaphysical comfort which William James felt requisite for a creative life. "I have been painfully forced to the belief," he once remarked, "That nine-tenths of what is regarded as philosophy is humbug. The only part that is at all definite is logic, and since it is logic, it is not philosophy...
...Father, Lloyd George, by Richard Lloyd George. The son of Britain's World War I Prime Minister shows in an excellent and well-balanced biography that his famed father was not only a great man but, on occasion, a humbug as well as a lecher on a grand scale...