Then there is the favourite claptrap of the 'natural frontier.
And this sort of pseudo-scientific claptrap is presented to a presumably learned profession through its own official Bulletin--but what’s the use of commenting!
I could not write a claptrap novel, or claptrap verses," sighed Lady Mabel.
He was too wise for that, and wrote himself into popularity with a claptrap novel.
Sonnica la Cortesana gives you antique Saguntum and the usual "Aves," wreaths, flute-players and other claptrap of costume novels.
That was nearer the proper tone, though it had a ring of claptrap rhetoric hateful to her: she had read it and shrunk from it in reports of otherwise laudable meetings.
When I landed the other day, I thought myself passably cured, and could have said that rhetoric is the fire-water of our country, and claptrap the springboard to send us diving into it.
But to set oneself to know thoroughly and to think clearly about any human question is to unfit oneself for the forensic claptrap which is contemporary politics, is to put oneself out of the effective current of the nation's life.
My dear boy," cried Morton, "there's no more empty claptrap than this claptrap of family.
As a Roman could never die without a claptrap in his mouth, Drusus was of course prepared with a neat speech on the melancholy occasion.
He would find it far more difficult to do that than it would be for a Socialist to show that most of what Mr Grinder himself has been telling us is nonsensical claptrap of the most misleading kind.
What is it but false, misleading, nonsensical claptrap to say that their interests were identical with those of their employer?
Otherwise the contention that this is no ordinary war but a criminal revolt against civilization, is a mere piece of claptrap and is properly treated as such by the neutrals.
The French Socialists met in London[72] and passed resolutions in which the usual claptrap of the war of classes, the boons of pacifism and the wickedness of the Tsardom occupied a prominent place.
