[loveliberty2]

"Sophistry"--now, there's a good description of an air which conveys much about nothing at all! Thanks.

Or, perhaps the "air" is the last effort of one merely attempting to be relevant without committing to an opinion which might, later, be held in "disdain" among the vast East and West Coasts' army of haters.

[Pelham]

I don’t know if the Greeks used the term sophist quite the same way that we do, but in English sophistry is the clever use of language in order to deceive. In contrast to philosophy, the love of wisdom.