Sentence examples similar to arrant manipulation from inspiring English sources

Choreography is an image of human behavior and energy, but Edwaard Liang's "Woven Dreams" was merely an arrant display of human manipulation, with one sensationalist effect succeeding another without the least connecting sense of expressiveness or serious response to music (a taped assortment of string music highlights by four composers).

This is arrant nonsense.

"That is arrant romanticism".

So why the arrant Yankophobia?

What arrant nonsense!

This is juvenile, arrant nonsense.

O, villain, villain, arrant vilest villain!

Football commentators have always talked arrant poppycock.

It happens to be arrant nonsense.

We are arrant knaves, all; believe none of us.

On balance, this arrant unhipness is a good thing.