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Quack in sentence

26 examples of Quack in a sentence

(Ducks quack) Some wild ducks and geese come to look at him.
(Ducks quack) The ugly duckling ran away from the great marsh.
Because I don't care if it's the secretary of HHS who's saying, "Hmm, I'm not going to take the evidence of my experts on mammograms," or some cancer quack who wants to treat his patient with coffee enemas.
The idea that quack quack would ever be chosen to play not only one of only three star turns, but a philanderer, is risible.
Along the journey, they meet first the broken wagon without water of the quack Dr. A. Locksley Hall (Alan Mowbray) and the prostitutes Denver (Joanne Dru) and Fleuretty Phyffe (Ruth Clifford).
Jose Ferrer is a quack psychotherapist who specializes in adjustment disorders of the rich.
The story is reasonably interesting and entertaining: the quack doctor Korvo (Jose' Ferrer) hypnotizes and cheats Ann Sutton (Gene Tierney), the spouse of a distinguished psychoanalyst (Richard Conte).
Nevertheless Tierney keeps us watching as Ferrer is effective as the quack Korvo.
A quack then supposedly cures her, she marries and then things get worse as she has a baby that gets sick and her husband gets it to.
He has promoted the quack idea that vaccines cause autism, and has masterfully deployed the suggestio falsi – for example, his insinuation that climate change is a Chinese hoax designed to cripple the American economy.
Indeed, while people are entitled to believe in horoscopes, trust in crystals to bring good luck, or buy into quack medicine, such “junk science” becomes a serious threat to society when it is allowed to influence public policy.
In fact, even the term chemical science enjoyed some popularity in the nineteenth century – a time when the field sought to distinguish itself from alchemy and the promotion of quack nostrums.
But introducing protectionist measures is a quack cure that would solve nothing; on the contrary, it would only exacerbate the economy’s problems.
Alternatively, it is not difficult to imagine a sequence of highly populist leaders who embrace the quack idea that the level of government debt is basically irrelevant and should never be an obstacle to maximizing public spending.
Are those who agitate for affirmative action fighting for something that is more a quack remedy than a real solution?
Given this history of flimflam, Catherine Rampell of the Washington Post was absolutely correct earlier this month when she called Shelton “an opportunist and a quack.”
The point was to threaten the public: You’re all sitting ducks – quack at your peril.
In response to these absurd utterances, mainstream media outlets such as the New York Times initially continued to abet Trump’s deadly rumor-mongering by implying that only “some experts” consider his quack musings to be dangerous.
This quack treatment is even less likely to work now than it did in 2017, when the tax cuts created a short-term economic sugar high that had already faded as we entered 2020.
'Probably they've seen all the antiquities, and are now going the round of the modern painters, the German quack and the stupid English pre-Raphaelite, and to complete the series have come to see me too,' he thought.
Levin sat listening to the doctor's stories of a quack magnetizer and staring at the ash of the doctor's cigarette.
She gathered together her quack periodicals and her quack medicines, and thus armed with death, went about on her pale horse, metaphorically speaking, with "hell following after."
She calculated his capacity as she would a jug's, and filled him up every day with quack cure-alls.
Queen Madasima was a very illustrious lady, and it is not to be supposed that so exalted a princess would have made free with a quack; and whoever maintains the contrary lies like a great scoundrel, and I will give him to know it, on foot or on horseback, armed or unarmed, by night or by day, or as he likes best."
He was clearly a confirmed hypochondriac, and I was dreamily conscious that he was pouring forth interminable trains of symptoms, and imploring information as to the composition and action of innumerable quack nostrums, some of which he bore about in a leather case in his pocket.
He added, in the tone of a quack at a fair, with a final bow: 'Our friend Maloyau, of the kitchen department, will present the character of Harlequin and your humble servant that of tall Pierrot. .