He could have easily ridden a continuous wave of liberal and countercultural approval — and then drowned, as a writer, in charlatanry. |
This leads him into some splendid attacks on charlatanry masquerading as truth. |
In popular culture, the gallery owner is a stock figure of slinky charlatanry, or worse. |
Confucian scholars strongly condemned the step as charlatanry, and it is said that 460 of them were executed for their opposition. |
Their patronising, cliquish self-regard has repeatedly been exposed as charlatanry. |
Moreover, the dividing line is sometimes unclear, or subtle, between what counts as a sectarian aberration and charlatanry or a swindle. |