Sentences with phrase «devious is»

The closer one gets to the «nerve» of the self, the more devious are the efforts at self - protection and self - deception.

I found this to be so devious I wasn't even mad, I was impressed!

Players can use a variety of weapons, items and tactics to harass the other bears, and the more devious you are the more points you shall score.

Play your way: Find your perfect match in casual, ranked, and arena games, participate in crazy Tavern Brawls, or practice against devious AI opponents and hone your skills in Hearthstone's adventure mode.

Not exact matches

«It's just so shady and devious.»

In addition to what many consider to be devious and unethical data harvesting practices, the company's chief executive, Alexander Nix, was captured on a hidden camera proposing using Ukrainian sex workers to bribe or blackmail Sri Lankan politicians.

There is nothing devious or underhanded about Stronach's approach.

«It was straight - up bad behavior,» says Ted, who has a youthful voice and a distinctive, slightly devious laugh.

Although their devious plots varied, all were psychopaths obsessed with seizing commercial opportunity through violent means — and most treated employees abysmally.

But researchers gave participants the option to send people playing the game (who were really experimental confederates) notes about anything they wanted, and about half chose to write notes conveying information about the cheater's devious ways.

Much like Paul, he was a strict constitutionalist, and believed that «devious government intervention in the economic affairs of the nation... [were] not contemplated by the men who wrote the constitution.»

The Big Oxmox advised her not to do so, because there were thousands of bad Commas, wild Question Marks and devious...

One does not have to be clever to be devious and that is what I think he is.

The new generation is going to put an end to this devious monetary deception and all of the old «Champagne Socialists» sitting in the front of the aircraft debating the horrors of capitalism with two bankers and a parliamentary aide while sipping on bubbly, feet up and caviar on the side table, are ALL in for a very rude awakening.

Your history is about to see the bright light of day and the devious founders of your false religion are about to be exposed and it will come from within your own organization.

Maybe it's a cultural difference in expression, I think it's definitely a gender difference, but I would only say «If you want to play it that way» if I thought someone was being devious.

I know whereof they speak, and it is never without devious purpose.

No, what I love is the 20 + pages of vitriol from atheist trolls, who claim that all Christians are simultaneously both devious egomaniacs intent on forcing their will on an innocent world populace and fools and sheep with no will of their own.

Is your God that devious?

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.

At the same time, women's resentment at being used gives rise in them to feelings of hostility which may prompt them to manipulate their husbands in devious ways and to exercise over their children a dominance that harms the latter psychologically.

Why is it, Cappi, that your god is so sneaky and devious?

That's not a stupid god, it's a devious one, and I don't think that a god who cared about humans and created this universe would be that d

In fact, of course, Naboth's vineyard, adjacent to US property, is a global phenomenon, and in devious ways we twist the circumstances to fit the charge, or misinterpret the charge to justify murder and possession - «Naboth cursed God and the king!»

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.

She was extremely devious and evil for no reason other than to inflict her control, with her only reservation being whether she thought she could get away with it.

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).

They take verses out of context and mobilize innocent ignorant followers of the faith to execute devious and heinous acts but again this is condemned at all levels.

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.

Or was it a man who was devious and equivocal, determined to alter the orientation of the university before anyone be the wiser?

The split between rational and mythic discourse which has characterized our recent cultural history is very dangerous for it impoverishes both modes of thought.13 It is one of the possible benefits of the current new appreciation of the meaning and function of myth that we may be able to rescue it from the realm of unconscious fantasy where it always continues to operate, often in dark and devious ways, and restore it once again to its creative role in human consciousness.

Could anyone measure the effect upon young Americans of a subliminal suggestion that Jews are devious Jesus - haters?

We'd conquered the globe and retreated again, so the world knew that a clipped English accent was the voice of devious colonisation.

not judging you or anyone vow to fight if you truly are a man of GOD truth would be spoken not the devious way you and the church handled it im more of a man than you will ever be guess you are afraid of losing all those members and money.

Direct rather than devious, specific rather than generalized statements are required.

Mitford made much of the math of caskets — how much they cost, how profitable they were, how devious or obsequious the sales pitch was.

any god that would set up his followers from different religions for holy wars is a devious monster.

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 gettiare 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 gettiARE using their army of 12 year olds... you better educated yourselves as to what they want... and are slowly gettiare slowly getting.

So I do believe in a God beyond the metaphysical categories illustrated in temporal process; but such a God is indeed beyond the categories and can not except by devious analogy be called individual, actual, knowledgeable, or a variety of other things Hartshorne attributes to his God.

his dad was just more devious and hid his hate better and had better pr advice and instincts

The method was devious but successful.

Arrogant, devious, mendacious, boyish and charming on - camera, rude and distant off - camera, Bakker surrounded himself with lieutenants who had been successful in the outside world but who became strangely compliant when they walked into Bakker's own rather small shadow.

God's willingness to be so misunderstood implies he is devious and untrustworthy or simply nonexistent.

The ways of the human personality are subtle and devious.

This is devious.

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!

I began to wonder if Balmer was a little devious here, letting Frank opine on his behalf.