What's the difference between demagogism and multitude?

Demagogism


Definition:

  • (n.) The practices of a demagogue.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We’re going to have our country back, and protect our second amendment.” After each demagogic slogan, the crowd screamed its approval, waving placards that called themselves the “silent majority for Trump”.
  • (2) He admired the demagogic black separatist Louis Farrakhan for his insistence that blacks and whites could never live together, and the dictatorships of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi and Ayatollah Khomeini for their hatred of Jews.
  • (3) So the student question must be addressed on its own merits, not thrown into a demagogic hotpot marked "immigration" (aka "bloody foreigners").
  • (4) Fidel called President Obama's conference remarks ' deceitful, demagogic and ambiguous ,'" a cable said.
  • (5) The Ocean Hill-Brownsville affair had a lasting and damaging effect on the politics of the city, since in the past Jews and African Americans had formed a powerful liberal bloc; now many Jews drifted to the "neo-conservative" right, while many black New Yorkers were alienated from mainstream politics and driven to back more or less demagogic black politicians.
  • (6) The HDP and other Erdogan opponents contend that the current political climate has been stoked by the demagogic Turkish president, who, stung by the election setback in June , is eager to put the pro-Kurdish party back in its corner.
  • (7) Instead of being an expansive, outward-looking, globalist power, the United States has definitively turned inward, shutting its borders to Mexicans, Muslims and any number of other perceived enemies of Trump’s demagogic imagination.
  • (8) Liberals will describe this as a failure of consensus politics that has been driven by the lowest suspicion and prejudice available in American society, manipulated by big business, pandered to by lax or demagogic media companies, such as Fox News, and ridden by ambitious politicians who promise a fantasy land that they cannot deliver.
  • (9) In these backlash countries, LGBTI people are increasingly demonised by politicians to win popular support In these backlash countries, LGBTI people are increasingly demonised and scapegoated by demagogic politicians and fundamentalist clerics as a cheap way to win popular support.
  • (10) As to the demagogic meddling of the mayor of London – who thinks it would have been "wholly commonsensical" to arrest Mitchell – it's if nothing else a useful reminder that Boris Johnson is never knowingly outshitted.
  • (11) Instead of Roosevelt, the supposed lackey of Jewish finance, Johnson and a friend, Alan Blackburn, fixed on Huey P Long, and then, when that odious Lousiana governor was assassinated, a demagogic priest from Michigan, Father Coughlin, as allies.
  • (12) Conspiratorial, at times smacking of racism when he spoke of droves of Arab citizens of Israel being bussed to polling stations, and playing on the notion of the right as the victim of an alliance of the left and unnamed foreign powers, it was an appeal both demagogic and pitched to be alarmist.
  • (13) Proactively, it seeks to meet the crisis on every level on which it manifests itself by changing strategies, winning over popular layers with "demagogic promises", and pre-empting and isolating opponents.
  • (14) Talking about ‘defending Europe’ is not just demagogic, it’s unworthy.” The activist movement’s leaders, who call themselves ‘Identitarians’ , are in Catania awaiting the arrival of C-Star, which left Djibouti earlier this month.
  • (15) Demagogic in style and undemocratic in nature, there is no percolation of political ideas from the membership to the leadership.
  • (16) In true demagogic fashion, Trump bypassed the head and spoke directly to the gut, to the biles and bubbling acids of raw emotion.
  • (17) "It is a perfectly demagogic tactic … No one is taken in.
  • (18) German’s doughty finance minister, Wolfgang Schäuble, has warned of the scourge of “demagogic populism”, while the EU’s economic affairs commissioner, Pierre Moscovici, suggested Europe’s voters might be poised “to destroy it”.
  • (19) On Monday Seracini described the petition as sour grapes, an attempt "by the excluded to block extraordinary research", adding: "This demagogic attack risks Italy being derided around the world."
  • (20) Avoiding demagogic confrontation will be a priority for Berlin, the provider of the bulk of Greece’s €240bn bailout.

Multitude


Definition:

  • (n.) A great number of persons collected together; a numerous collection of persons; a crowd; an assembly.
  • (n.) A great number of persons or things, regarded collectively; as, the book will be read by a multitude of people; the multitude of stars; a multitude of cares.
  • (n.) The state of being many; numerousness.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Cadavers have a multitude of possible uses--from the harvesting of organs, to medical education, to automotive safety testing--and yet their actual utilization arouses profound aversion no matter how altruistic and beneficial the motivation.
  • (2) The basic question about the future of media perhaps becomes clearer and can more succinctly be asked: will Facebook be earning more from its multitude of users in 10 years – when there are no more users to be had – or will Comcast?
  • (3) Isocyanates are highly reactive chemicals capable of causing a multitude of toxicologic effects including respiratory irritation, dermal irritation, contact sensitivity, and pulmonary hypersensitivity.
  • (4) Pulmonary edema probably will always remain difficult to their mechanism of production, in so far as can be estimated from the multitude of substances.
  • (5) In a complex so large that travelator conveyor belts were installed to ferry visitors between the exhibition halls, the multitude of new gadgets on display can be bewildering.
  • (6) Its assessment is a damning one on a health service that was struggling with a multitude of problems and at a time of great change.
  • (7) The present results show that propentofylline and its hydroxylated metabolite can influence adenosine mechanisms in a multitude of ways.
  • (8) Conformational study on phosphopantetheine shows that this compound has an intrinsic tendency to adopt a multitude of conformations which contain hydrogen bonds involving the sulphydryl, hydroxyl, carbonyl and amide groups.
  • (9) A multitude of topical agents have been tried with variable results.
  • (10) I never felt stirrings of faith – apart from when faced with natural wonders such as the multilayered celestial splendour of a night sky, my newborn babies, an epic coastline – so I embraced tolerance and tried to remain open to the multitude of organised belief systems I don’t share.
  • (11) Furthermore, this patient presents a multitude of complications developing from large angiomas.
  • (12) I wonder: are there any historical precedents for the ageing multitudes who now keep rock'n'roll in business?
  • (13) The multitude of caval filters now available and conflicting experimental and clinical findings indicate that no one model can be considered to be perfect.
  • (14) Chronic renal failure (CRF) is the consequence of a multitude of diseases that cause permanent destruction of the nephron.
  • (15) Despite the multitude of losses we experience in our lifetime, death is likely to be the most paramount.
  • (16) A multitude of variants can be mounted from just four system components.
  • (17) Injections of horseradish peroxidase (HRP) into the habenula of squirrel monkeys labeled a multitude of neurons in the lateal hypothalamus and a lesser number of neurons in the internal pallidum (GPi).
  • (18) Separation of the symptoms of this syndrome from the symptoms of a multitude of other postgastrectomy syndromes is difficult, being complicated by a high incidence of emotional instability in these patients.
  • (19) Because we have this multitude of games, I hope Remy picks it up,” Hiddink said.
  • (20) The answer lies in the multitude of tiny modifiable connections between neuronal cells, the information-processing units of the brain.

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