(1) The only justification for this bipartisan legislative flimflam is that a prescription-drug benefit needs a certain number of holes to come in at a mandated 10-year cost of $400 billion.

(2) His career rose on a chic, combustible mix of obtuseness and literary flimflam .

(3) The trailer is also a nice, atmospheric flimflam , selling the film's terror while, surprisingly, avoiding all its tedium.

(4) Therefore, thanks to this budgetary flimflam , that has been going on for some time, one part of the government can't even certify what the right numbers are.

(5) U2018We want footie, not flimflam ,u2019 screams one headline.

(6) Let's start with the fact that none of the flimflam men behind the high-level financial swindles will have to do any time behind bars.

(7) They engaged in financial flimflam on an even larger scale in pushing through its record tax cut for the wealthy.

(8) I suppose that you suspect me of pseudointellectual flimflam

(9) They are warned that, eventually, the Court will recommend that the District Attorney open up a new file to investigate this obvious financial flimflam .

(10) If not, it's farewell to this flimflam fellow and his faux fortune.

(11) It won't be long before you'll see commercials and ads for u2018miracleu2019 fuel boosters and other such flimflam promising to help you save fuel and money.

(12) The most disturbing lesson is that it is not too difficult to flimflam the public on the most consequential matter there is.

(13) No flimflam , just straight down to business on the Middle East.

(14) His parents are putting his little sister to bed with the usual Christmas Eve flimflam about Santa not coming to awake children.

(15) Pseudo-intellectual flimflam

(16) Before science took over the healing arts and focused physicians' attention on biological causes of disease, mystics and alchemists and flimflam artists alike offered potions and powders to the ailing.

(17) Here in Norway we have our fair share of flimflam .

(18) The grand-sounding phrase about freedom being a u2018long-distance raceu2019 is just another piece of flimflam .

(19) Is he a flimflam artist who talked about reducing government while actually expanding it?

(20) And why are they publishing such obvious flimflam ?

(21) But this word does not apply to them, even if they are guilty of the kind of flimflam that would send common hucksters to prison.

(22) Stripping away all the flimflam , I thought I'd pick just six highlight vehicles that made their debut in Detroit - products I believe will make a major impression on the marketplace, though sometimes for different reasons.

(23) Forget all the flimflam about whether there are sufficient sexual services in Christchurch.

(24) Having said that, it's good to see your newspaper lighten up a bit with the occasional flimflam such as this.

(25) All they need do is drop me an e-mail every time an under-sub-deputy-director of flimflam convenes a background briefing.

(26) Ratliff quietly casts shame upon the walking dead of Trinity by allowing for gray area and trusting that his audience is keen enough to know a flimflam when it sees one.

(27) Instead, we get the flimflam of the weasel words that are scattered through this legislation about environmental sustainability and economic benefits.

(28) As the interviewer made clear in the interview, the number is itself the product of a little numerical flimflam .

(29) Midway through this month, a Wall Street Journal headline captured the flimflam spirit that infuses so much of what passes for mass communications these days: u2018Despite Slump, Students Flock to Ad Schools.u2019

(30) The most longstanding, and perhaps easiest, criticism of these fantasies is that they are unreal - mere flimflam or tinsel, designed to distract, and so dupe, the purchaser of the fantasy.