Sentences with phrase «agent provocateur»

Applebaum contends that the explosion of apparent support for Moldovan students and other protesters (10,000 + people showed up when only around a thousand were expected) was at least in part due to the work of agents provocateurs, who also led or pushed the protesters to break into government offices and plant a Romanian flag on the parliament building (Romania is apparently the national bugbear for pro-Russian Moldovans).

John Chisholm returns as agent provocateur with this classic: What I would do if I ran a 20th - century law firm in the 21st - century.

There are also geo - political reasons for the recent violence — long - enmity to the West, economic and social unrest, and agent provocateurs in the Muslim world who are trying to destablise the new Arab leadership.

As prominent crypto critic and agent provocateur Preston Byrne explains:

These are times when the public space is populated by paid agents provocateurs whose stock in trade is to grand...

Ismail Seregeldin, director of the Library of Alexandria, issued a statement on January 30 to thank the youth for protecting the library from «lawless bands of thugs, and maybe agents provocateurs.»

But Ledger's mesmerizingly damaged agent provocateur is the film's dark heart, a presence so malevolently unpredictable that it remains palpable even when he's not on screen.

While the cast is uniformly strong and populated by a rogues gallery of outlaws (Ernest Borgnine as Bart Lonergan is agent provocateur instantly), put upon lawmen (Frank Ferguson's Marshal Williams is a patsy straight away), and an elaborately off the mark malefactor in the aforementioned Emma Small, but it's Crawford who makes us care and whose tensions have us spellbound and beguiled.

Fugit, looking less and less like William Miller by the day, is wonderfully smarmy as a sort of agent provocateur designed to push Catherine off the deep end.

As Zero Punctuation agent provocateur «Yahtzee» pointed out, we've been...

Did Andy Warhol decline from agent provocateur into celebrity, or was he asking for it all along?

In 2014, Tseng participated in our group show Agents Provocateurs, an exhibition that focused on provocative skateboard graphics and the artists that hurled skateboard artwork into the counter culture limelight.

Haberny's sardonic sensibility caught the eye of notorious artist / agent provocateur Banksy, who included Haberny in his 2010 Marks and Stencils pop up shop in Soho, NYC.

Laure Prouvost is an artist who seems to pop up everywhere, as filmmaker, installation artist and all - purpose artistic agent provocateur.

He said, «We see and know Sherrif as agent provocateur, working in tandem with the APC, as his relationship with President Mohammed Buhari as a loyal in - law is well known to all Nigerians.

Founded in 1992 by Jeebesh Bagchi, Monica Narula and Shuddhabrata Sengupta, Raqs Media Collective (pron: rux) are artists, curators, researchers, editors and philosophical agents provocateurs.

As prominent crypto critic and agent provocateur Preston Byrne

In his very first appearance in one of the long - running series of hunter and hunted stories, Daffy attracted considerable attention: he was a go - getting, combative troublemaker who cast all restraint aside, a kind of agent provocateur.

«It is well known that some agents provocateurs set up fake accounts and go to the press to tell them how terrible Ukip is.

«Agents provocateurs have been a common usage of governments throughout history, including our own.»

Many Muslims are angry, frustrated, and some would be influenced by these agent provocateurs on both sides.

While the world is nervously waiting to see how the obscenity from these propagandists affects the Middle East and the wider Muslim ummah, the bigots who supported the film in counter-jihadist networks and the agent provocateurs in the Arab capitals may have different game plans.

Unfortunately, it is the hotheads and useful idiots, those who act only from heart and not from head, who fall prey to the agent provocateurs.

When the body language of officialdom suggested bias or tacit support for the agent provocateur, some poodles misread the horizon and played along.

In that order, death comes first because it is the agent provocateur.

Okoi Obono - Obla, Special Assistant to the President on Prosecutions, man Friday and agent provocateur, is the arrowhead in this needless exercise of power that is clearly aimed at meeting some self - serving political ends.

«These agent provocateurs are fully aware that our leader can not grant press interview for now but it will be appalling for these immoral purveyors of iniquity and evil men in the society to be writing press statements in the name of our leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, without proper consultation.

Always the agent provocateur, his comments persuade one to think about difficult problems requiring difficult solutions.

«My name is Roger Stone and I'm an agent provocateur,» proclaims the proudly infamous Trump confidant in his introduction to the endlessly fascinating, bracingly up - to - the - minute Netflix documentary bearing his name.

Five decades after the first cinematic incarnation of 007, novelist Ian Fleming's agent provocateur, the spy - craft in the new film is sharper, the intrigue deeper, the beauties brighter (more brain, less bare).

As Lionel struggles to find housing that will allow him on its premises, the traditionally black house on campus is going through its own struggles as Troy Fairbanks, the house golden boy finds himself toppled as its head by Samantha White, an agent provocateur with a radio show that challenges its listeners with its aggressive humor.

Red Sparrow releases to home video (Blu - ray / DVD / Digital Copy) with the following extras: - A New Cold War: Origination and Adaptation - Agents Provocateurs: The Ensemble Cast - Tradecraft: Visual Authenticity - Heart of the Tempest: On Location - Welcome to Sparrow School: Ballet and Stunts - A Puzzle of Need: Post-Production - Director Commentary by Francis Lawrence

Salieri, Psycho Award - winning (from the L.A. Film Critics) Amadeus now provokes second, third, many thoughts from David Thomson, who sees in Salieri a prototype of the Hollywood deal maker: cynic, gossip, agent provocateur.

Love crops up once more in the case of surf - rock saxophonist - cum - recovering smack addict, Coy Harlingen (Owen Wilson), whose death has been faked so he can work as an agent provocateur for the government.