Sentence examples for fake medium from inspiring English sources

Those who attempt to heal the traumatised survivors include a fake medium who teaches Billy to read using a Ouija board and Billy's mother, a hairdresser.

She follows a basic rule of acting by playing Madame Arcati from the character's point of view: not as a fake medium but as someone who takes her trade seriously.

The Medium, which Menotti claimed to have been inspired by personal experiences of spiritualism, offered a great dramatic role to a contralto as the fake medium Madame Flora, first sung by Marie Powers, who also appeared in the film version that Menotti directed himself in 1951 in Rome.

One of the best sections in the entire oeuvre of Dorothy L Sayers comes in 1930's Strong Poison, when Lord Peter Wimsey's right-hand woman, Miss Climpson, reinvents herself as a fake medium to get valuable information from a gullible nurse.

Thirty years later, magician Penn Jillette told me in an email that there had never been a fake medium who had ever had a noble or good reason for doing what they did, in hoodwinking the easily hoodwinked, and I agreed with him.

Nevertheless, Trippi did warn that this was a potential point of collapse for politicians still navigating between the netroots and the mainstream media, whose breadth and reach can still take a thirty-second soundbyte and subject it to all the distortions of the "fake medium".

Indeed, he almost landed in jail for contempt of court after exposing a fake spiritualist medium, and was only saved when the paper's crime correspondent pushed bundles of fivers into a police officer's hands.

Davies' original brief also included "fake mediums", and Gatiss originally set it in a "spiritualist hotel", which had fake mediums (such as a character named Mrs Plumchute) on the lower floors and Mr Sneed on the top, though he was unaware he was a true medium.

Karlin and Javerbaum were talented people who, seemingly, couldn't break out of the fake news medium.

Attacked fake spiritualistic mediums and showed them up.

Vietnam's bureaucrats still feel the need to meddle in most areas of economic life, but they would probably prefer not to have to differentiate between "real" and "fake" spirit mediums.