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27 examples of Claptrap in a sentence

And when people talk about life after fossil fuels and climate change action, I think there's a lot of fluff, a lot of greenwash, a lot of misleading advertising, and I feel a duty as a physicist to try to guide people around the claptrap and help people understand the actions that really make a difference, and to focus on ideas that do add up.
This show has gone from informative news to sensationalized claptrap.
As for the main proceedings, the writers just didn't know how to create the suitable guilty-or-innocent tension for Kinski's character -- instead they gave us confusion, contradiction and, by the finale, downright let's-hope-the-viewers-don't-notice claptrap.
Pretentious claptrap, updating Herman Melville (!), about a young man's vaguely incestuous relationship with his aristocratic mother getting transferred to his long-lost sister who has been raised by gypsies.
This made NO SENSE at all, didnt start at the beginning of his life, charactors were all over the place...and the TERM "GODFATHER" didnt even EXIST until PUZO wrote the book!.....THEN, the real mafia, borrowed the PHRASE and made it their own AFTER the movie.....THIS piece of claptrap would have one thinking that the phrase (representing the mafia don) was used back in the 20's...when these people were only called "DON"....outside of the original Godfather movie, if you want to see another decent mob flick, check out Puzo's The Last Don (part 1) part 2 sucked.
An absolute hoot, Davis is the sole reason to watch this racially offensive claptrap.
Unfortunately, I found "WS" to be a wandering, unengaging, boring bunch of claptrap pieced together with, what apparently is Schaeffer's signature, a mix of story, narration, and poetry.
Also every person that is interviewed in the film has found a market for their ludicrous take on reality by selling claptrap to conservatives willing to let others do the thinking for them.
I wanted to dissect it,but after a few minutes,I gave up,because no one in their right mind would take this claptrap seriously.
There's a special kind of insult in a film this ridiculous -- not only do the filmmakers apparently think that children are brainless idiots who can be entertained with claptrap that cost approximately zero effort, but they don't even bother to break a sweat inserting a gag here and there that an adult might find amusing.
What claptrap!
However, there is no real storyline, it is fragmented claptrap.
The closing ballet is claptrap for the intellectual crowd, out of place and in the wrong movie.
Well, scary and disturbing this laughably ludicrous claptrap sure ain't, but it sure is funny, thanks to Curtis ("Night Tide") Harrington's hopelessly weak direction, cartoonish (not so) special effects, an almost painfully risible'n'ridiculous plot, and a game cast that struggles valiantly with the absurd story (besides the leads, both Martine Beswicke and R.G. Armstrong briefly pop up as members of a Satanic cult and Victor Jory has a nice cameo as a helpful Native American shaman).
In Man Bites Dog, this was genuinely achieved through skillful and subtle film-making rather than preaching pseudo-philosophical student claptrap at the audience.
and in others (can I delight in making another happy? to realize and throw off the layers of claptrap that keep me/us from casting onerous cognition to the wind and instead to indulge the heart and the moment--from literally throwing one's possessions out the window to indulging what might have been an offputting fetishist's fantasies to singing out to engage the spirit of a foreign exotic spiritual procession and be willing to acknowledge in song one's fears and quests).
But even Izo, in comparison with this (and I consider Izo a flawed film), is more worthwhile than this minor claptrap.
But this movie, this abomination of politically correct claptrap, won't be remade any time soon.
Foyle is so well done, that even I can overlook the commie claptrap and strongly recommend it to weary viewers tired of the usual rubbish we are force fed here in America.
I sat through the whole precious, fey, numbingly predictable piece of claptrap, dumbfounded that this normally intelligent and thoughtful actress could have experienced such an extended bout of temporary insanity as was needed to give this particular performance.
You know it's bad when you find yourself wishing that you were watching the original Filipino caveman movie, without all the stoopid sci-fi claptrap that Adamson & Co. added later.
There is some claptrap that is never really explored about inanimate objects being mystical focuses of belief and power, which is thrown in as an explanation for the Aztec cloak/dresses' power, which is quite forgettable.
The acting is pretty good, but the relentless patriotic claptrap makes for a boring diatribe, especially since there's never really much clarity about what the Crusaders are doing and how or why they have political power.
Quintessential seventies claptrap features Sam Elliott as thirty-something LA lifeguard facing career and other life choices.
What do people see in this claptrap?
With all of the garbage that is out there today, everything that Chicago did is better than the all of the claptrap of the 1990's or 2000's!
In South Africa, we hadto clear our language of apartheid’s claptrap and the official euphemisms thatsought to shroud the horrors of our daily lives – euphemisms such asresettlement” for “banishment,” and “permanent removal” for “death-squadassassination.”Yes, we had to clear our heads of the official language beforewe could write in a creative one; and some of us had to pay dearly for writingsthat asserted the truth in the face of connivance with the official lies: Ourbooks were banned from publication and removed from circulation, and weexperienced – either formally or through pressure on our family, friends, andassociates – personal bans that kept us from the outside world (and the outsideworld from us).