How To Use Barnum In A Sentence
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Maretzek, fell in the period when Barnumism was at its zenith, and
Chapters of Opera Being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from its earliest days down to the present time
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But because I care, I wanted to extend a hand and help you out of that leaky rain barrel before you go (and take others who would emulate you with you), like some gushing honeymooner or P.T. Barnumesque daredevil, completely over the water's edge.
Deep-Hearted
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When it came to hoaxing the general public, Barnum was very clever in the way he positioned himself.
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But because I care, I wanted to extend a hand and help you out of that leaky rain barrel before you go (and take others who would emulate you with you), like some gushing honeymooner or P.T. Barnumesque daredevil, completely over the water's edge.
Deep-Hearted
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You would ask them here -- nurse, bottles, and baby like a traveling Barnum's -- and Winn glares in one corner -- and that little piece of dandelion fluff lies down and grizzles on the nearest cushion -- and now you want to have a garden party on the top of
The Dark Tower
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Mrs Barnum sat before him, her face lit by the evening light that shone in from the single window in the room, her expression rapt – as if she were looking upon divinity.
An Atlas of Impossible Longing
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The musical, set in a Big Top, features gravity-defying stunts and slapstick clowning as it portrays the story of American showman PT Barnum.
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For the gamblers, sharpers, and confidence men who exploited the wilder side of Gilded Age America, that critique required a fair amount of self-denial (especially coming from Barnum, himself a master of the con).
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Mr. Churchill said, I remember when I was a child, being to the celebrated Barnum Circus which contained an exhibition of freaks and monstrosities, but the exhibit on the program which I most desired to see was one which was described as the boneless wonder.
The Role of Opposition
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Irvine's previous novel, A Scattering of Jades, combined Mammoth Cave, Aaron Burr, and P.T. Barnum with Aztec mummies and the Millerite apocalypse; it felt heftier than OKOS does, and its magic captured the True Powers Feel of "I know how this works, but if I told you straight out your eyes would melt, so I'm just going to describe it allusively" somewhat better.
Kenneth Hite's Journal
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They went to work deliberately to Barnumize their prospective candidate.
The Writings of James Russell Lowell in Prose and Poetry, Volume V Political Essays
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Our readers must not suppose that his proficiency is merely of an ordinary kind, or that his notoriety is another species of Barnumism.
Music and Some Highly Musical People
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Although he was personally opposed to slavery, in 1835 Barnum purchased a slave woman named Joice Heth.
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The negro steward who killed three of the prize privateer crew put on board the schooner Waring is on exhibition at Barnum's Museum, New
The Civil War in America
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He believed in persistently advertising. Barnum understood that hit-and-miss advertising doesn't work, but a consistent message, told over and over, hits its mark.
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Forty hard-bitten lifers waited for the guard Barnum to go to sleep on his shift.
Chapter 2
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David Wondrich, an American cocktail historian, speculated in Esquire magazine that it may have been named after P.T. Barnum's famous elephant, which gave rise to the word jumbo as a synonym for huge.
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And who was the P.T. Barnum-like genius who fused the word Confederate with the non-word rama?
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Although he was personally opposed to slavery, in 1835 Barnum purchased a slave woman named Joice Heth.
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P. T. Barnum had engaged the larger exhibition room to stage a new kind of mass entertainment, against which painting simply could not compete.
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An ingenious circus promoter named P.T. Barnum found a way to make people laugh and make pots of moolah from the likes of a great gallumping galoot named ‘Jumbo’.
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The streets erupt in a saturnalia of lawlessness, to which the director adds an inspired touch: an escaped elephant from Barnum's circus trumpeting down the rubble-strewn streets.
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Rudolf Steiner was a complete nutcase," Mr. Smith writes, "a flimflam man with a tremendous imagination, a combination if you will, of an LSD-dropping Timothy Leary with the showmanship of a P.T. Barnum.
Biodynamics: Natural Wonder or Just a Horn of Manure?
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P T Barnum tells a story about how his grandfather tricked a woodchopper into cutting up a cord of firewood for him.
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A graduate of Barnum & Bailey's Clown College, Irwin was best known for his side-splitting, silent slapstick routines in Broadway revues like Fool Moon and his rubbery antics as "Mr. Noodle" on Sesame Street's "Elmo's World" segment.
Cheers & Jeers: CSI and Lights Out — Fears of a Clown
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As a promise of lurid exotica, the term “Sci-Fi” was apt in the era of magazines titling themselves with words like “amazing”, “astounding”, “thrilling”, “stirring”, “fantastic”, but over the subsequent decades the Barnumesque hyperbole has been muted for a reason.
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How do you know this, from the Barnumesque third rate art projects such as Piltdown Man, Archaeaptor and Tikkalik?
Jonathan Wells: Another ID Creationist Who Doesn't Understand Information Theory - The Panda's Thumb
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Pugilists, criminals, showmen, and oddballs also captured the public fancy: P. T. Barnum was a great early impresario of this new world of celebrity.
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This artifact in P.T. Barnum's museum was advertised as a gorgeous topless siren, but was actually the mummified corpse of an ape sewn to a fish.
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The term jumping on the bandwagon may have been attributed to PT Barnum who was attributed as saying "There's a sucker born every minute.
Main Stream Media, Propaganda and You. An isosceles triangle
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When Barnum's grandfather claimed to know nothing about this detail, the woodcutter threw down his axe in disgust and sat down on the woodpile.
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But really, he is only the latest incarnation in a line of right wing Barnumesque self-promoters.
Steven Weber: Step Outside
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Berman, normally a Barnumesque broadcaster/carnival barker who rarely lifts an eyebrow in criticism of anybody except for profanity-laced tirades aimed at production assistants when he thinks the cameras are off, slammed Snyder for his lack of respect for his employees and coaches.
Bad Sports
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Unlike other human beings put on display in antebellum America, the “Chinese Lady,” as she was called, was not brought to the United States by a Barnumesque showman.
The Romance of China: Excursions to China in U.S. Culture: 1776-1876
