Sentences with phrase «cunning plot»

In order to achieve this end he's come up with a «cunning plot» which involves explaining to people that the scientists involved are merely ordinary scientists going about their business being harried by a well - organised and well - funded group, consisting mainly of flat - earthers and creationists.

Most novels, Bakhtin argued, are «monologic,» unified by a cunning plot or the perspective of the narrator or author.

Barak's proffered concessions were so unprece dented» especially in light of his earlier offers to Syria to surrender Israeli control of the Golan Heights» that some observers saw in them a cunning plot.

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to help him irrigate his garden plots, on the grounds that «cunning contrivances» lead to «cunning hearts,» and thus to a soul in which «Tao will not dwell» (UP 320).

Eph 4 nkjv 14 that we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting, 15 but, speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into Him who is the head — Christ

Perhaps it's all some cunning ruse, and Cameron is secretly plotting how to draw our EU partners sufficiently far into committing to another Treaty that when he launches his demands for renegotiation they will not be able to refuse.

Spielberg's strategy was to broaden Walker's cunning simplifications, and in blowing up her plot, Spielberg not only makes its flaws more visible, he also uncovers, beneath the feminist rhetoric, the melodrama at its heart.

This second act is a bit prolonged, carrying the film to a 116 - minute runtime and detailing more than necessary the cunning vengeance plot.

The blood ties of South Boston (or «Southie») are the kindling beneath the plot, which starts to smoulder when FBI man Connolly (Joel Edgerton), who has known Bulger since childhood, devises the cunning plan of forming a kind of off - the - books partnership with the gangster.

The claustrophobic nature of the movie is present throughout, as Winstead and Gallagher Jr. try to plot against Goodman, who appears all - knowing and cunning, and Tractenberg constantly highlights that the character is always only ever two rooms away.

Here's a plot summary: descended from a long line of criminal masterminds, 12 - year - old genius Artemis Fowl finds himself in a battle of strength and cunning against a powerful, hidden race of fairies who may be behind his father's disappearance.

Jack (Chris Pine) reluctantly tags along when Pitch (Jude Law, cackling and cunning as a British villain) plots against them all.

Pupils shuffle avenger cards and create a tem of 11 heroes and draw a box plot of thier power and cunning, comparing the two and comparing with a friend to see who has the best team.

After decades of exhausting physical labour, an old machinist who is sick and tired of his life in the heart of communism plots and executes his plan of escape using manipulation and cunning.

Snake's cunning bamboozlement extends to plot revelations, too.