Sentences with phrase «chicanery as»

Instead of celebrating chicanery as Spielberg and Tony Kushner did, Wright celebrates the great - man - of - the - people theory of history.

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And as for doing anything dirty or dishonest for money — such as payola, rigged TV shows, false advertising, corrupt business deals, political chicanery, etc. — their consciences are not for sale.

He was finding the lawyers as tiresome as ever: «You may say this is a word - war or a word - insanity, a pleasure one owes to jurists... so many ambiguities, sophistries and chicaneries... their jargon is more confusing than all the tongues of Babylon.»

As Andrew Cook says in this vivid and detailed account of the period, history «has failed to bring to book the other political leaders of the day who in reality eclipsed Lloyd George in terms of honours sales and political chicanery».

Here, we get a few more amusing scenes involving the shenanigans — or, as is apparently, according to the movie itself, preferred in Canada, chicanery — of the gang of misfit highway patrol officers.

Again and again, this despicable misanthrope exhibits a chilling malevolence in his quest for control of the burgeoning internet empire, subtly resorting to chicanery and criminal behavior to eliminate anyone he perceives as a threat: his collaborators, investors, friends and foes alike.

Introduced dressing to the nines for his job as maître d' in a swanky restaurant in the Village — a job he loses in short order thanks to Paulie's penny - ante chicanery — Charlie dreams of someday running his own place in the country with his supportive girlfriend (Daryl Hannah), a dance instructor who openly wonders why he hasn't cut his cousin out of his life yet.

There are some amazing stories behind Camilla Nielsson's feature - length documentary debut, Democrats, which documents three and a half years of behind - the - scenes drama and chicanery in Zimbabwe as a cross-party coalition attempts to draft a new constitution under the watchful eye of a newly free press and dictator Robert Mugabe.

As things stand now, I don't think the Joker has cause to frown (or resort to his chicanery in defense), but the whole set - up of this Oscar race certainly does make you wonder: Hmmm, how might this derby contest change if, say, the eventual distributor of «Dean Spanley» hired more samurai Oscar consultants and the movie managed to dodge further nasty reviews (granted, a big «if») and if this time O'Toole actually agreed to hang out in L.A. to campaign, then maybe... maybe...?

Maybe it was just the pure vicarious thrill of «discovering the hard facts of the writer's trade,» reading of the glances of «cold disdain» thrown down upon Lucien as he walks in his cheap frock coat and out - of - fashion «Nankeen trousers» amidst the beau monde; or Lucien greeting the sobering facts of the mercantile chicanery of publishers, for whom «books were like cotton bonnets to haberdashers, a commodity to be bought cheap and sold dear.»

The SUBARU BRZ 2012 a car whose set - up was once described as «a recipe for agility, low roll, tossable handling and general chicanery» by Top Gear magazine

As Claire or Barry, things remain closer to the first Revelations experience, albeit with the action focus emphasized over any puzzle solving or survival horror chicanery.

The Game Awards are happening tonight, and as corporations dribble all over each other and promote the refreshing taste of Mountain Dew, your ol' pal Jim Sterling will be watching the chicanery live!

To classify carbon dioxide as a pollutant is thus nothing short of scientific chicanery, for reasons that have nothing to do with science, but based purely on the pseudo-science.

To classify carbon dioxide as a pollutant is thus nothing short of scientific chicanery, for reasons that have nothing to do with science, but based purely on the pseudo-science so eagerly practised by academia across the world in order to keep their funding sources open to the governmental decrees, which are in turn based on totally false IPCC dogma (yes, dogma — not science).

Medium term, years of cooling will dissolve any serious regard for CAGW among the informed, and long term, the warmista high priests will have their names enshrined in the language, as being synonymous with fraud, chicanery, duplicity, prevarication... etc..

So finally finally, I wouldn't worry about the level of too heated debate in a scientific field that has becomevery politicised.All the chicanery and sculldugerry is still as relevant today as it was in yesteryear; drat all 40 minutes worth of my pennyworth!

There are such things as semi logarithmic curves, but not on the same axis!It's ridiculous but dangerous because many in the general public won't notice this chicanery.

This and the widespread chicanery commited by the managers of of Mann et al, in covering it all up; and also the climate science community as a whole who just looked the other way (and still do).

Rechtskomitee LAMBDA (RKL), Austria's LGBT civil rights organisation, denounces this as unbearable chicanery.

Rather than using the phone's two cameras to create this effect (as most dual - camera phones do), the legwork is done through software chicanery.