How To Use Demagoguery In A Sentence

  • It is, therefore, particularly disappointing when politicians fall for this demagoguery. Times, Sunday Times
  • The footnote may be the most powerful antidote to historical demagoguery. Times, Sunday Times
  • His language is hip-hop demagoguery, like a minister preaching a religion of which you have never heard. Times, Sunday Times
  • Elsewhere Aristotle reiterates that flattery is intertwined with demagoguery: “the demagogue is a flatterer of the people …” Politics 1318. Is That Legal?: In the wake of the Kerry Remarks, Democrats are...WINNING.
  • This elementary ruling has resulted in demagoguery. Times, Sunday Times
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  • We left inoculated against right-wing demagoguery for life. Times, Sunday Times
  • There will be plenty of opportunities for demagoguery on the part of special interests. Times, Sunday Times
  • George Bush used the same demagoguery, the same false claims and accusations to scare the people of the United States into giving him dictatorial powers, what he calls the unitary presidency. Placing George Bush on the ten worst presidents list is a mistake
  • I sometimes wonder if some of the bitterness that is injected into politics is just a form of demagoguery, an effort to hold onto this group of voters.
  • Consequently, rock-ribbed demagoguery and uncompromising resistance seemed to be the only responses available to southerners who opposed desegregation.
  • The book also parodies his demagoguery and propensity for offensive outbursts. Times, Sunday Times
  • Press baron demagoguery, however unfair, reflected the biases and passions of specific men, and was thus self-limiting.
  • Throwing out the term communism has all the demagoguery of Sen. Joseph McCarthy and recalls a dark chapter in American history. Byron Williams: Facts Left the Health Care Debate Long Ago, Emotion Is the Driver Now!
  • The book also parodies his demagoguery and propensity for offensive outbursts. Times, Sunday Times
  • I am sorry, Mr. Goldsmith, Civil War was a gratuitous exercise in sensationalism, trying to take silly ideas like Superhero Blockbuster (it is formatted very much like a Bay movie), applying a demagoguery hamfisted, hollywood-liberal demagoguery to it. /Filmcast Ep. 91 - Green Zone (GUEST: Jeff Goldsmith from Creative Screenwriting Magazine) | /Film
  • I'd like to propose my own candidate for the most loathsome display of demagoguery in the past 25 years.
  • When people in the North repeatedly turn out to vote for sectarian demagoguery and backstreet thuggery above all available normal democratic alternatives, then they have not delivered a verdict which needs to be respected.
  • In Germany, for example, the term Anglo-Saxon is often bandied about as an epithet for political demagoguery to represent free market ideology. Edward Harrison: The recession is over but the depression has just begun
  • Anyone who disagrees with me is guilty of cheap demagoguery and will get what's coming when I'm doling out the wedgies and the Chinese burns.
  • The country is quite capable of withstanding a little divisive demagoguery. Canada.com
  • Demagoguery and aggrievement are nothing new in American politics. John McQuaid: Czarist Nonsense
  • His followers see in him a populist hero, but more than anything else he resembles a postmodern version of William Jennings Bryan, the Democratic firebrand whose demagoguery derailed the People's Party in 1896.
  • On television this sort of thing is enormously effective in demoralizing the innocent and well-mannered who, acting in good faith, do not lie or make personal insults, Buckley has made many honorable men look dishonest fools by his demagoguery, and by the time they recover from his first assault and are ready to retaliate, the program is over. R_urell: William F. Buckley: Father of Modern "Conservatism"
  • However, the findings are a reminder of why now — more than ever — we must refuse to succumb to political apathy and laissez-faire demagoguery.
  • People are increasingly aware of how important it is to contribute their ideas in a constructive spirit, free of demagoguery and negativism.
  • Now that Obama is in full re-election mode, the labor union bosses seem to be ratcheting down the rhetoric of their anti-trade demagoguery, at the behest we assume, of Obama’s advisers.
  • And he is playing a conventional game of economic demagoguery to win votes. Times, Sunday Times
  • Where such traditions are absent or weak, popular sovereignty easily turns into populist dictatorship, liberal democracy to libertinism and demagoguery.
  • But it is also an exquisitely coded and exploitative masterpiece of tub-thumping demagoguery. Times, Sunday Times

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