Sample Sentences fordemagogue (auto-selected)
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Let them spend the next fifty years poring over the passenger list, trying to figure out which one of them is the great demagogue of the Age of Locke. (source)demagogue = someone who appeals to the passions and prejudices of others
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That would make you a demagogue, a windbag.† (source)
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Conrack discovered that afternoon, much to his dismay, that he had a bit of demagogue in him.† (source)
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On the third page of the Post that evening was an article, accompanied by a most unflattering photograph, concerning the notorious Mississippi race-baiter and demagogue, Senator Theodore Gilmore Bilbo.† (source)
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And Kent quotes the advice allegedly given during the 1920 campaign by former Senator Ashurst of Arizona to his colleague Mark Smith: Mark, the great trouble with you is that you refuse to be a demagogue.† (source)
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They should guard against hazarding anarchy, civil war, a perpetual alienation of the States from each other, and perhaps the military despotism of a victorious demagogue, while they pursue what they can only learn from TIME and EXPERIENCE.† (source)
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Ask that demagogue of a Marius if he is not the slave of that little tyrant of a Cosette.† (source)
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Atticus Finch was right when he said the only good the University did Henry was let him make friends with Alabama's future politicians, demagogues, and statesmen.† (source)
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At first, when the demagoguery, the abasement, the small lying had its reverberation in other small lies and ultimate threats in the form of requests and suggestions among the hierarchate of the Church and he received the call to Jefferson, he forgot how he had got it for the time.† (source)
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(5) Where today a political regime establishes an official cultural policy, it is for the sake of demagogy† (source)
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Mr. Jones wrote a full and particular account of the dinner, which appeared duly in the Demagogue.† (source)
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On its own, being a decent person is no guarantee that you will act well, which brings us back to the one protection we have against demagogues, tricksters, and the madness of crowds, and our surest guide through the uncertain shoals of life: clear and reasoned thinking.† (source)
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To think that someone like you, who uses such grand words for such shameless purposes, can accuse me of demagoguery.† (source)
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The same holds true, of course, for capitalist countries and makes all talk of art for the masses there nothing but demagogy.† (source)
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The moon, too, which had long been climbing overhead, and unobtrusively melting its disk into the azure,—like an ambitious demagogue, who hides his aspiring purpose by assuming the prevalent hue of popular sentiment,—now began to shine out, broad and oval, in its middle pathway.† (source)
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Sometimes, parliamentary questions were asked about it, and even parliamentary motions made or threatened about it by demagogues so low and ignorant as to hold that the real recipe of government was, How to do it.† (source)
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