2008 June 15, Lawrence Ulrich, “An Attention-Getter, Like That or Not”, in New York Times:
Yes, I’ve heard the shtik from every muscle-car manufacturer: We only make a handful of these; most owners use them as weekend toys; boomers are willing to pay the price for nostalgic fun.
2023 March 9, Arwa Mahdawi, quoting Tucker Carlson, “So Tucker Carlson secretly hates Donald Trump … is anybody surprised?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
There’s a deep phoniness at the center of his [Bill O'Reilly's] shtik.