Sentences with phrase «as devious»

Especially for those who lack any sort of scientific training and who regard the injunction of «test your hypothesis against observations» as a devious stratagem to overthrow the Truth.

While the platforming action is still as devious as ever, where MM10 loses a little steam is with your new toys.

Of course, this wouldn't be a Zero Escape game without its first - person puzzle escape room»» and they're here and as devious as you'd expect.

His hostage rooms are just as devious and are genuinely challenging.

He's portrayed as a devious heel, so why not stipulate that Orton has to be tied to the cage, or blindfolded or something?

Dogs have been labeled as devious schemers who try to boss you around, so you are encouraged to be very tough and rigid in your interactions with them.

As awesome as Thor is, as devious as Loki is, as badass as Hulk is, Ragnarok is at its best when Valkyrie is on the screen.

As the devious Mr. Letterblair, Lloyd must convince Newland that Ellen's divorce will have horrendous repercussions on everyone.

Innocent, wide - eyed Alma appeals initially because she is nothing and Woodcock can make her everything, but Alma is as devious as Reynolds is cruel, and their love is warped and knotty, as suits two peculiar deviants.

Michael Fassbender plays the Scottish nobleman, while Marion Cotillard is intriguingly cast as his devious wife.

Along the way, we encounter a wide array of characters, some of them charming, such as the gentle Old King (Morton Selten), and some sinister, such as the devious Halima (Mary Morris), plus a range of color and lushly designed sets and set pieces (and special effects) that still dazzle the eye seven decades later, even in the wake of various remakes (which include Disney Studios» Aladdin).

These individuals aren't as devious as the previous two but they do make the process of finding real people on the online dating service much more difficult.

Our leading psychiatric politicians have successfully managed to use the medium of universal bribery as well as their devious Machiavellian charismatic authorities to subvert the moral authority of elective franchise by skewing it in their favor, exclusively for partisan political advantage.

But if my child is as devious as I was and the Internet can help me keep tabs on him, I say «hallelujah technology!»

In certain texts, Yahweh appears as devious, unstable and unreliable.

The book also presents the Roman Catholic Church as a devious institution marked by deception, violence and scandal.

Not exact matches

In the intelligence «flap» as in Watergate, it has been the Fourth Estate — the press — that has played the most vigilant watchdog role, despite the CIA's and the FBI's devious efforts to co-opt or discredit the media.

Unless we are in effect to abandon all attempts to talk about God as such (a form of apophatic theology which Neville's position seems to favor), the «devious analogy» to which he refers is so devious that it is hard to distinguish it from equivocation or even fraudulent misrepresentation.

As Neville recognizes, his own view that God is «beyond the metaphysical categories illustrated in the temporal process» means that he «can not except by devious analogy be called individual, actual, knowledgeable, or a variety of other things Hartshorne attributes to God» (p. 61).

Lentricchia, whose earlier work earned him the epithet «the Dirty Harry of literary theory, is the author of Criticism and Social Change (1983), which urges us to regard all literature as «the most devious of rhetorical discourses (writing with political designs upon us all), either in opposition to or in complicity with the power in place.»

There are dozens of books and articles from the past half century, all arguing that, far from being the Boy Scout of popular imagination who slew Goliath, the David figure who supplants Saul as king in Israel is a devious, double - dealing thug.

Though as a Protestant theologian, he was naturally inclined to give Catholic progressives the benefit of the doubt, Lindbeck nonetheless found himself appalled by the extent to which the progressives «appealed to the Council to justify their own loss of faith, their mindless capitulation to modernitas, their devious and unacknowledged departures from what is essential, not only to the Roman tradition, but to Christianity itself.»

The AMERICAN PUBLIC better wake up soon... those EVANGELICALS are slowly going to turn this country into a THEOCRACY... YOU PEOPLE HAVE NO IDEA HOW DEVIOUS AND UNDERHANDED THEY ARE using their army of 12 year olds... you better educated yourselves as to what they want... and are slowly getting.

Then again, the business of academic research endowments, especially in fields as conceptually confused as artificial intelligence or cognitive science, really is all about exploiting the credulity of wealthy foundations and corporations and private donors (sometimes with devious cynicism, sometimes in deluded innocence).

Devious little thing is yer Bible — changing and contorting just as quick as anything!

They may as well express dislike about Shakespeare's devious Iago, Dickens» scheming Uriah Heep or Dr. Seuss» Grinch who stole Christmas.

Of course we were interrogated, when we came home at exactly the time we should have come home, had we indeed been to Mass, for I was devious, and adhered exactly to pattern, so as to mimic an honest morning.

The best way to get your family to try something new, I mean really new, is to disguise it as something familiar and offer it when they're not suspecting anything devious.

Instead they both gloatingly claimed that Arsenal played exactly as they expected and fell into their devious trap.

(Most historians agree that what happened on the Boyne was engineered for his own devious purposes by Louis XIV of France, and it is certain that James II, asked to face 35,000 troops with 21,000, was not so much routed as obliged to make a quick getaway.)

Join Archie and his pals — beautiful Betty, sexy Veronica, devious Reggie and eccentric Jughead — as they do their best to unravel ARCHIE»S WEIRD MYSTERIES.

With restrictions to formula distribution, the corporations become more devious, lobbying governments, challenging the law and establishing clinics and hospitals as marketing agents and centers.

Although Macmillan has been characterised as being devious, I think the key to understanding him is ambiguity.

Unfortunately, the proponents of the Taliban in Pakistan are too good at playing this devious game — as they have done it time and again.

What appeared to be a welcome retreat was in fact a blatant, yet devious, decision to carry forward the creation of the state management of our identities, while sterilising it as an election issue.

But to see him being used as a pawn in Avella's devious political manipulation of the electoral system speaks volumes about his character.

As she grilled Google executives on tax avoidance in 2013, Hodge told the company's northern Europe boss, Matt Brittin, that his company's behaviour on tax was «devious, calculated and, in my view, unethical».

Unfortunately, it's pretty obvious that they deliberately chose to publish these figures on the same day as announcements about new peers and the latest migration statistics in a devious attempt to bury their own bad news.

I wish to assure the Public and the NDC fraternity worldwide once again, that this story is emanating from the disgraceful conduct of devious and crooked political detractors and it has no resemblance to any iota of truth as the facts show.

Hannon opposed the state MTA payroll tax, which he cited as «one of the most devious taxes because it hits everybody, every day, in every walk of life.»

Republicans, led by devious Dean Skelos, had as their goal the restoration of their (actual) majority, which meant vulnerable freshman Democrats like Tkaczyk and Terry Gipson in Dutchess got nothing.

In a statement issued on behalf of Mallam Abdullahi by his Special Adviser, Julius Ogunro, he noted that the attack had no religious intonation as it was obvious the perpetrators were mere criminals pursuing a devious agenda.

Researchers have seen evidence for this in the lab, where male fruit flies have evolved devious tricks, such as compounds in their semen that made females less sexually attractive to other males (ScienceNOW, 22 June 1998).

He's provocative, mischievous and a touch devious (those cable ties from spring were handed out as gifts this time.

This is a devious, and sites will even disclose this practice in their terms of service as if this excuses it.

I know folks will want to look at DiCaprio's Calvin Candie as the villain, but in the end he's only as evil and devious as the times would suggest or allow; he was a slave owner who thought his slaves less than human.

A seriously quirky piece of work, The Voices follows Ryan Reynolds» Jerry as his mental problems, which are highlighted by his conversations with his devious cat and lovable dog, worsen as he begins dating a pair of attractive coworkers (Gemma Arterton's Fiona and Anna Kendrick's Lisa).

The guests start arriving, as Sophie's bubbly friends (Ashley Lilley & Rachel McDowall) arrive first and after she swears them to secrecy, she tells them her devious plan; soon afterwards Donna's long - time friends when she was a hedonist arrive: Tanya (Christine Baranski), a much divorced lady who takes pleasure flirting with young men, and the game Rosie (Julie Walters), the best - selling author of a cookbook.

So basically, it's business as usual: a devious old bureaucrat out to punch Bourne's clock, the taciturn Euro - assassin (Vincent Cassel, wasted) hired to do it and an icy female agent enticed by Jason's masculine allure.

Toby Kebbell as Koba is the teeth - baring, power - seeking, fear - totting equivalent of Lion King «s Scar in that his devious maneuvering are matched only by the penchant for fire - filled battles.