mountebank in a sentence

Examples

1. A later critic, Hesketh Pearson, rated the libretto of " The Mountebanks " " as good as any but the best Savoy pieces ".
2. Mrs . Clinton tries on an array of motivational mountebanks, from Tony Robbins to Marianne Williamson to Stephen Covey to Houston _ the spiritual equivalent of her hairstyles.
3. The dashing carrick stayed popular until about 1850 when, as noted in a French magazine of 1852, it became identified with mountebanks, coachmen and liveried servants.
4. Mencken called Bryan " a charlatan, a mountebank, a zany without sense or dignity, " but admitted : " His place in Tennessee hagiography is secure.
5. Villiers was forced to take odd jobs to support his family : he gave boxing lessons and apparently worked in a funeral parlour and as a mountebank's assistant for a time.
6. "After I stepped down to return to academic life, however, the party came under control of a preposterous mountebank named Nigel Farage, who reoriented it to the far right.
7. ""'Belphegor the Mountebank " "'is a 1921 British silent film directed by Bert Wynne and starring Milton Rosmer, Kathleen Vaughan and Warwick Ward.
8. Samuel Johnson, English author, critic, and biographer, was convinced that Macpherson was " a mountebank, a liar, and a fraud, and that the poems were forgeries ".
9. His last operas, " The Mountebanks " ( with Gilbert, produced in January 1892, a few days after the composer's death ), were both modestly successful.
10. Morton is bedecked as Master of Merry Disports, while Scrooby, vested as English priest, wears a mountebanks; there are even an ape, a hobby horse and a dancing bear.