He had always been a hybrid: renegade and rabbi, charlatan and saint.

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This appeal always frustrated his political opponents - although there are others who argue Sheridan has never been anything other than a charlatan.

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They needed two crushing electoral defeats to begin revising their view of Mr Blair as a weightless charlatan whom voters would quickly see through.

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"One of our senior officers comments that he cannot believe that anyone is going to re-employ this dangerous charlatan and confidence-trick merchant, " a report from MI6 said.

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Dr Daniel Ubani, who was struck off by the General Medical Council, claimed Rory and Stuart Gray should not be able to call him a "killer" and "charlatan".

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Parnassus is a mystic, or maybe he's a charlatan traveling through modern-day London, England, with his antiquated sideshow, replete with a band of misfits and a magical mirror.

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