Sentences with word «conniver»

Curiously, the commission did not serve the subpoena on Malloy and his circle of connivers.

It depicted the Uber co-founder as a meddlesome conniver who was looking out for himself first and the company he built not at all.

Small circles of whispering connivers go mute when reporters approach.

Like many Poles, he disdains the «Yids,» whom he insults as money - grubbing connivers.

Langella, though, has a triumph as the glum conniver Bob Alexander, who's like a synthesis of all the overbearing powermongers who've skulked through the White House over the last 20 years.

However simply he approaches this familiar milieu, Mr. Stone winds up treating his story's sin - soaked connivers the way Francis Ford Coppola treated vampires.

Greer as the stunning conniver gives her character depth and a veneer of vulnerability — one minute we're sure she's a nasty piece of work, the next we admire her bravery in extricating herself from an abusive relationship with Douglas.

The movie's dark and it features a gloomy wasteland full of cutthroat connivers out for self.

Then throw in a cast of actors who are known for playing connivers or egotists, such as James Woods (usually a bad guy) as the schmoozy doctor, Anne Heche (incredibly annoying) as the ambitious hospital administrator, and Ray Liotta (usually a bad guy) as the politically - minded chief of police.

While there are a couple of historical characters — my bon vivant conniver Franklin Drexel is very loosely based on Harry Lehr (called «King Lehr» for the way he ruled over Newport society)-- most of the characters in The Maze at Windermere are the inventions of a novelist's imagination.

«Sam is a conniver.

Sometimes it's a comedy about a conniver, scheming to undermine a corrupt system with the help of larger - than - life funnyman figures like John Goodman and Stephen Root as upbeat schlockmeisters Frank and Hymie King.

We are among the palaces built six hundred years ago by the merchant princes, the kingmakers and connivers of Renaissance Florence.

By his own admission, he is «a conniver and extractor [of information]»; in other words, a trader of secrets, a blackmailer and a spy.